Our Learning Garden - Grade Lesson 1-6
“Pea Shoots”
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Lesson SummaryLesson 1 -Grade 1 students learn about common characteristics that they share
with the plant world and animal world. How we share a common need for water,
air, sun and soil.
Students engage in many interactive activities, including beading bracelets with
each color representing a life force. 1-0-6,1-1-05
Lesson 2-Students will learn to recognize that plants as living entities, come in
different forms.
Lesson 3, 4, 5 Students will germinate and grow, harvest and eat Pea shoots.
Critical thinking and observation skills are developed when observing and recording
(drawings) the life cycle of the pea shoot. From seed to edible harvested plant.
Students will record and observe how the plants are effected when you remove
various life forces.
• Lesson 3,4,5 – covers the science curriculum outcomes required in Grade 1 Plant
investigations
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SPECIFIC LEARNING OUTCOMES –Cluster 1
1-1-06 Observe and identify similarities in life processes between themselves and other
living things.
GLO: D1, E1
1-1-07 Recognize that plants, animals, and humans, as living things, have particular
needs. Examples: plants need sunlight and water...
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Examples: the environment provides humans and other living things with food...
GLO: D2, E2
1-1-14 Show respect for living things in their immediate environment.
GLO: B5
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• Grade 1, Cluster 4: Daily and Seasonal Changes
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By observing their environment, students become aware of changes that
can occur within it, such as changes in temperature, wind, and light, and in
plant and animal life.
GLO: D4, E4 Recognize that the Sun is a source of light and heat.
1-4-08 Investigate and describe changes that occur in
characteristics and behaviors of living things
throughout a day
• The activities related to growing Peas Shoots foster critical thinking and
observation as the students can control the environment that the pea
shoots grow in.
• Enhanced curriculum students can control, light (sunlight), water and
temperature.
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Health Education -Healthy Lifestyle Practices
• Introducing students to the
concept of growing food
indoors /gardens teaches them
to make informed decisions for
healthy living related to
personal health practices,
active living and healthy
nutritional practices.
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Growing Pea Shoots Indoors
• Meets following curriculum requirements
Students can investigate and determine how
plants grow and what is necessary for this
• Students can keep journals and observe with
illustrations and words the growth pattern in
the plants with
respect to time, temperature,
light, water and soil.
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Grade 1 Kit Contents
Lesson Plan 1- Different colored beads, and string
Lesson Plan 2 – None required
Lesson Plan 3 - None required
Lesson Plan 4 –Dry Peas , paper or Styrofoam cups and water
Lesson Plan 5, 6, 7 – Dry Peas , soil, pots (use the cups) to
grow seeds in, light source to place planted seeds in pots
under
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Lesson 1Grade 1 Cluster 1: Trees
Lesson has activities and images that illustrate the 1-1-06 the similarities in life processes
between themselves and other living things.
Students engage in many interactive activities, including beading bracelets with each
color representing a life force. 1-0-6,1-1-05
GLO: D1, E1
1-1-07 Recognize that plants, animals, and humans, as living things, have particular
needs. Examples: plants need sunlight and water...
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• Seeds Sleep
• Animals Sleep
• People Sleep
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• Seeds are called dormant when they are not
growing.
• Dormant is like sleeping.
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PLANTS
ANIMALS
PEOPLE
need
Water
Air
Sunlight
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Air
Sun
Water
Humans, animals and plants all need air, sun and water to live
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Can you guess what the different color beads represent?
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Can you guess what the different color beads represent?
Blue is for water,
Green is for air
Yellow is for the sun
Red is for the soil, why is soil important for plant, animals
and people?
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Would you like to make a bracelet with the different
colored beads?
Please print what the different color beads represent.
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Air
Sun
Water
Soil
Humans, animals and plants all need air, sun, soil and water to live.
Should we all take good care of the earth if we need air, sun, soil and water to live?
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Lesson Plan 2
• Continues with the theme of 1-1-06 observing and identifying
similarities in life processes between themselves and other
living things.
• GLO: D1, E1
• 1-1-07 Recognize that plants, animals, and humans, as living
things, have particular needs. Examples: plants need sunlight
and water.
• We expand on these concepts by changing the states of a
plant from dormant (sleeping) to germinating (awake).
• Students are also introduced to the concept of sunflower
plants following the sun (heliotropism). See the video
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Are seeds alive?
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Sleep (dormant)
Dream about ………?
Wake up (germinate)
Grow when planted
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• If a plant can move and follow the sun, is it alive?
• If a plant can grow is it alive?
• If a plant can make food is it alive?
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We are ALIVE
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Short Life – 2 months
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Long Life
Strawberry plants can live for up to 50 years.
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Plants are alive, just like people and animals. How do we know
this?
Living things all do certain things:
•They grow and die.
•They need energy, nutrients, air, and water.
• They produce young. (Example sunflower seeds)
•They are made up of cells.
•They react to what's around them (Example sunflowers
follow the sun)
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Go to File Folder Videos“How time flies and sunflowers catch the sun”
Link to film
Lesson Plan 3
• Many activities and concepts to help students
develop a respect for living things in their
immediate environment. 1-1-14
• GLO: B5
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If a seed is alive should we respect it?
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If an animal is alive should we respect it?
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We should respect all that is living
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Should we decide if one is more important than
the other?
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Our Elders teaches us to respect all equally?
What do you think that means?
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Can you show us how to “respect all” using words and or a drawing?
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Let’s draw a picture of a seed
• Remember to
respect the seed as it
is alive
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Let’s draw a picture of a pea seed
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Lesson Plan 4
• The indoor growing activities (pea shoots)
reinforce how we can control our environment
to grow healthy food
• The germination of seeds reinforces the
concept of seeds being alive
• GLO: D2, E2
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Let’s wake up some pea seeds.
• Seeds start to germinate (wake up) from water
or Sunlight
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Let’s wake up some peas
• Just add some water and soak them overnight
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Observe what happens
• Draw a picture of the pea seed after it has
been in water overnight .
• Compare it your first picture before it was put
in the water
• Is it different?
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Let’s put the seeds that have been in water overnight in a cup.
Make holes in the bottom of the cup with your pencil.
Make a lid for the cup with paper or cardboard.
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Rinse the seeds that are in the cup
• Try to rinse them 2 or 3 times a day
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Lesson Plan 5, 6 ,7 are combined as
the growing activities takes 10 -14days
• Students experience the living seeds as they
observe them sprouting.
• After sprouting for 2 days the seeds can be
planted.
• Students plant the seeds and observe how
seeds grow under different conditions.
• Students learn about different plants that are
edible and how animals eat similar plants and
seeds
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Day 1 in the cup
Observe the peas
• Draw a picture
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Day 2 in the cup
Observe the peas
• Draw a picture
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Day 2 or 3 in the cup
Observe the peas
• Draw a picture
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Day 3 in the cup
Observe the peas
The peas look ready to plant
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Let plant some peas
Plant some of the peas and cover soil
Plant some of the peas and put the root in the soil.
Do not cover the seed.
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Water
• Add a little water
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Sunlight
• You can use indoor light
to replace the sun
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Peas with just the root in soil
Peas covered soil
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Which one is growing better?
The root is in soil
Peas covered soil
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Water but no soil
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Water but no soil
Soil and water
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Which seed is growing the most?
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Why is the seed with soil growing more?
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What are your favorite plants to eat?
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Lettuce, Celery, Spinach or Pea Shoots are the
leaves of the plant?
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Are you a leaf eater?
What animals eat leaves?
Koala Bear
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Are you a Seed eater?
, corn, sunflowers, beans, peas, lentils
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What animals eat seeds?
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What animals eat seeds?
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Bear eating berries.
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Do you eat berries?
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INFORMATION FOR THE TEACHER
What are Pea Shoots?
Pea shoots are the choice leaves and tendrils of pea plants.
Pea shoots are harvested from the growing point of the plants and should be young and tender.
Choose shoots that include the top pair of small leaves (the tip), delicate tendrils attached to
the young stem, and maybe a few larger leaves or even blossoms.
Select shoots that look fresh and crisp. Choose ones that are bright green and undamaged.
Storage
Pea shoots are fragile and best used within one to two days of harvesting. Keep them wrapped in
paper towels in an open plastic bag in the vegetable bin of the refrigerator.
• Using Pea Shoots
• Rinse pea shoots in cool water, drain and let dry. Remove any stems that look coarse. Pea
shoots can be eaten raw or lightly cooked. To cook, place damp pea shoots in an empty
saucepan over medium heat. The water clinging to the damp shoots is enough to steam
them.
• Percent of Recommended Amounts Needed for Adults—Per Day -2-cups of pea shoots
• Potassium -3% Folate -10.5% Vitamin C -35.5% Thiamin- 5.75% Vitamin A -15% Riboflavin -7%
Vitamin E -8.75% Vitamin B-6 4.75% Vitamin K-132% Fiber -3.5%
• Pea shoots are packed full of carotenes—strong antioxidants that protect cells from damage
and help prevent certain diseases.
• Pea shoots may also contain valuable phytochemicals. Certain pea plants have these natural
disease fighters, but it is not known whether garden peas contain them. The phytochemicals
found in other types of pea plants include lignins, a flavonoid called quercetin, and caffeic
acid. Researchers believe these substances help prevent cancer in different ways and have
other beneficial health effects.
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Peas Shoots Taste Great!
They taste like peas.
The class can harvest and taste the
delicate, juicy leaves or shoots of young
pea plants.
Remember to wash the leaves before
eating
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Lets let them grow and eat the pea shoots
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In the spring time
• Lets plant some of the sprouted peas in a
garden outside and then we will have fresh
peas to eat.
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Garden Peas
• Save some peas from your garden to plant for
next year
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