Love Food? Love Seeds! - Where Can You Find Seeds?

EYLF Learning Outcomes:

Learning Outcome 2:

• Children are connected with and contribute to their world
• 2.4 Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment

Learning Outcome 4:

• Children are confident and involved learners
• 4.1 Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
• 4.2 Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem-solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
• 4.4 Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials

Learning Outcome 5:

• Children are effective communicators
• 5.1 Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes

Resources required:

Ages 0 – 2:

• Collect a range of fresh fruits and vegetables. Where possible collect two of each fruit and vegetable and cut one open to expose the seeds and leave the other one uncut. Consider collecting some of the following: orange, apple,  strawberry, kiwi fruit, watermelon (with pips), grapes (with pips), stone fruit, pumpkin, capsicum, cucumber, potato, tomato.

Ages 3 to 5:

• Collect a range of fresh fruits and vegetables. Where possible collect two of each fruit and vegetable and cut one open to expose the seeds and leave the other one uncut. Consider collecting some of the following: orange, apple, strawberry, kiwi fruit, watermelon (with pips), grapes (with pips), stone fruit, pumpkin, capsicum, cucumber, potato, tomato.
• Print the Different types of seeds flashcards and stick the provocations to the back of each corresponding image.

This lesson has been created in partnership with ACT for Bees. ACT for Bees is a not-for-profit organisation taking action to preserve these essential pollinators, ensuring a food-secure future.