Lesson Ideas from SEED

These lessons (2-4 connected lessons) were created by PREL for/with grade 3 SEED students and teachers. Lessons aimed to integrate garden activities to support learning science, math, and social studies content, along with age-appropriate reading and writing skills to support learning English and local languages.

Each lesson includes learning goals, unit/lesson sequence, suggestions for assessment tools, and handouts.

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LESSON: Measurement (Length and Height)

1-2 class sessions, 1 hour 15 minutes total

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
•  Use key vocabulary such as long, tall, and inches to measure length and height of different things

LESSON: Making Observations and Predictions

1 class session, 30 minutes

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
•  Use adjectives to make observation
•  Ask questions about observation
•  Use the word “I think” and “will” to make prediction

LESSON: Food Crops

2-3 class sessions, 3 hours total

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
•  Use key vocabulary for plant parts to describe food crops, orally and in writing
•  Use sequential words such as first, then, finally to describe how plants grow, orally and in writing
•  Use the article “the” to describe plant growth, orally and in writing
•  Summarize learning, using sentence frame “We learned about…”

LESSON: What Do Plants Need to Grow?

1-2 class sessions, 90 minutes total

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
•  Use key English vocabulary such as seed, soil, water, and sun to explain orally and write what plant seeds need to grow
•  Use the correct article (a, an) when writing

LESSON: Planting: Parts of a Plant

1-2 class sessions, 90 minutes total

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
•  Use key vocabulary such as roots, stem, leaves, flower, fruit and “this is” and “these are” to name parts of a plant
•  Create a labeled drawing for a plant found in the school community
•  Summarize learning using sentence frame “We learned about…”

LESSON: Where Does Rain Come From?

1-2 class sessions, 90 minutes total

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
•  Use key vocabulary words to explain where rain comes from
•  Use the word “because” to explain why rain is important

LESSON: Build Your Own Rain Gauge

1 class session (60 minutes) to build rain gauge, plus follow up observations

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
•  Build a rain gauge to measure precipitation
•  Measure precipitation using a rain gauge to the closest 0.5 inch
•  Record measurements, observations, and predictions in a journal
•  State observations and predictions using key vocabulary and compound sentences

LESSON: Eating Local: My Local Plate

Essential question: Where does our food come from?
3-4 class session, 45 minutes per session

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
•  Identify foods that are grown locally
•  Explain where common imported foods come from
•  Conduct an informal interview
•  Make informed predictions
•  Create a diagrams to organize information, including an infographic and a Venn diagram

LESSON: Feeding Our Plants with Sea Cucumber Fertilizer

*Original fertilizer recipe by Dako Nating (teacher at Marshall Islands High School). Extension and integration ideas by Sansrik Elementary School grade 3 teachers

1 class session to make fertilizer, plus maintenance and application

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
•  Use key vocabulary to explain how plants absorb nutrients (get food) from their roots
•  Use sequential language to explain how to make and use fertilizer