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title: Grow a Plant | Farm to School and Nutrition Education
description: Observe how a tiny seed grows into a plant. Learn what a plant needs and how you can provide it.
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# Grow a Plant

## GROW YOUR CURIOSITY 

Observe how a tiny seed grows into a plant. Learn what a plant needs to grow and how you can provide it. Harvest microgreens that you grow and make them into a fresh salad.

### **Learning Objectives**

By the end of the program, you will be able to:

- Label the life cycle of plants/animals
- Describe what a plant needs to grow
- Identify where and how food is grown in Klamath/Oregon
- Identify Oregon grown foods and know what they taste like

## 80,000

###### Species of Edible Plants

For fruit fans - cranberries, Concord grapes, and blueberries are native to North America.

### Week One Activities

[Watch time lapse video of seed germinating (or sprouting)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6vgAnMhGxs) (3 minute video)

### Week Two Activities

[Watch a plant grow](https://workspace.oregonstate.edu/hubfs/Extension/Watch%20your%20plant%20grow(2).pdf) (handout)

[Make a water bottle sprinkler ](https://workspace.oregonstate.edu/hubfs/Extension/Watering%20bottle%20instructions.pdf)(handout)

[Journal plant growth](https://workspace.oregonstate.edu/hubfs/Extension/Planting%20journal%20Generic.pdf) (handout) 

 

### Week Three Activities

[Growing a Plant](https://workspace.oregonstate.edu/hubfs/Extension/Planting.pdf) (handout)

### Week Four Activities

[How Does a Seed Become a Plant?](https://youtu.be/tkFPyue5X3Q) (Video 3:46 minutes from SciShow Kids)

### Week Five Activities

[What do plants need to grow?](https://workspace.oregonstate.edu/hubfs/Extension/What%20Plants%20Need%20to%20Grow%20(L3).pdf) (Slide presentation)

[Instructions to make “grow” bracelet](https://workspace.oregonstate.edu/hubfs/Extension/Growing%20Bracelet%20Insructions.pdf) (handout)

[Song: Sun, Soil, Water & Air](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEYhs8m_qo4) (video 48 seconds from Banana Slug String Band)

[What happened to the plants?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kTt4xHHLzk) (Video 3:54 min from SciShow Kids)

### Week Six Activities

[Plant Part Poster](https://workspace.oregonstate.edu/hubfs/Extension/Plant%20Parts%20Poster-1.pdf) (handout)

[Plant Part Poster](https://workspace.oregonstate.edu/hubfs/Extension/Plant%20Parts%20Poster%20spanish-1.pdf) (handout/Spanish)

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