This is part two of a five part Christian Home School Lesson Series for first graders on plants that aims to fulfill the Science Content Standards from the California Department of Education.
Lesson 2: Plant Life Cycles
Purpose: To explore and know more about God’s work of plant life cycles.
Book(s) read:
Aaron Carr’s Plants (Science Kids Life Cycles).
Gail Gibbons, From Seed to Plant.
Other tools:
Paper
Pencil
Crayons
Learning Objectives:
- Learn general knowledge about plant life cycle.
- Learn the vocabulary concerning plant life cycle.
- Illustrate what is learned in this lesson about plant life cycle.
- Learn a spiritual lesson concerning God’s creation of plant life cycle.
Lessons
1. Learn general knowledge about plant life cycle.
Tool 1: Aaron Carr’s Plants (Science Kids Life Cycles)
Tool 2: Questions
What is your favorite picture from what we read?
Point to pictures that shows a plant.
Tool 3: Further period of interactive instructions
A life cycle is when a plant begins, grow and make more plants (Aaron Carr, Plants (Science Kids Life Cycles), 5).
“A seed contains the beginning of a new plant” (Gail Gibbons, From Seed to Plant, 1).
Different plants have different types of seeds that look different in terms of its shape, color, size and texture (how it feels).
Flowers are where most seeds begin (Gail Gibbons, From Seed to Plant, 4).
(Gail Gibbons, From Seed to Plant, 1).
To make seeds flowers need pollination from other plants.
Pollination happen when the pollen of a flower is transferred to the parts of another flower that makes seed.
Animals, insects, water and wind helps to move pollens from one plant to another.
A seed on or in the soil when it soaks in water ends up having its seed coat soften and broken which then begin to grow into a plant. This is called germination (Gail Gibbons, From Seed to Plant, 21-22).
This new plant then grows into a full grown plant that also will make its own seed which begins the plant cycle all over again.
2. Learn the vocabulary concerning plant life cycle.
(Note: Write down the vocabularies on a white board)
- Plant life cycle: A life cycle is when a plant begins, grow and make more plants (Aaron Carr, Plants (Science Kids Life Cycles), 5).
- Seed: What a plant produces that contain the materials to start a new plant.
- Germination: This is when a seed is on or in the soil and soaks in water ends up having its seed coat soften and broken which then begin to grow into a plant. (Gail Gibbons, From Seed to Plant, 21-22).
3. Illustrate what is learned in this lesson about plant life cycle.
Have four blocks to draw in.
First block label and draw a picture of seeds.
Second block label and draw germination (underground).
Third block draw an adult plant without flower (plant that is rooted and leaves existing above the ground).
Fourth block draw a plant with flowers. Label “flowers.”
Switch paper and see the similarities and differences in one another’s drawings.
4. Learn a spiritual lesson about God’s creation of plant life cycle.
Tool 1: Bible
“Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;” (Genesis 1:29)
This is on the sixth day of God’s creation.
Here God speaks to man.
God tells man that plants are to be his food.
If you remember that seeds are in some plant’s fruit. These fruits are then eaten by animals or humans and the seed are then scattered elsewhere and new plants arise. Here we see God’s design even with food for humans but also for plant life cycles!
Tool 2: Questions
Are you amazed at God’s creation of plants?
Review: Share what you learn today.
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Thanks for another lesson for us grown ups about amazing plants. It’s such a miracle that seeds can be stored for years yet retain the “spark” of life which kicks in when they’re planted. Brings to mind a somewhat interesting though semi-revolting memory: Twenty years ago I took a night-school biology class that was taught by a person who worked during the day at the county’s water/waste treatment facility. The waste that ended up at the plant contained many undigested seeds as you can imagine. The plant had a huge “sludge” field where the treated waste ended up. He said in the late Spring and Summer it was overgrown with the tastiest tomatoes and strawberries! 🙂
Wow that is gross…but also kind of cool. Reminds me of my wife’s decompost bin where seeds were in it and suddenly plants start sprouting like crazy inside it. I guess that can be a sermon illustration: When Satan and the world through its dirt and waste on you, God wants you to grow in Christ and bear the fruit of the Spirit! What an amazing creation of God isn’t it?
Good illustration! Yes, it’s an amazing creation!
This is awesome, brother!
Concerning our discussion about Mormonism and Jeff Durbin I want to share this on my blog so that WordPress doesn’t think I’m spamming if I put a link on others’ blog (your blog). Here’s a video we shared on our blog that has gone viral in the past: https://veritasdomain.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/jeff-durbin-is-mormonism-a-cult/
Also there’s lots of videos of Jeff Durbin evangelizing Mormons that might be helpful too.
Hope that helps! I’m praying for the Gospel to be shared and the faith defended!
Thank you so much! Please continue to pray for me in this area, we’ll be moving soon and I don’t want to miss the opportunity.
Wonderful
Amazing that God put everything into a tiny seed, for it to become an entire plant system.
It is indeed amazing! At first I accidently read your comment as referring to planet system and it got me thinking of this year’s homeschooling lessons has touched on plants and planets, and through it all God’s work of creation is amazing!
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