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A
forest in the classroom
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Caring
- Responsibility
- Collaboration
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The teacher talks to the children:
Have
you ever been in a forest? What did you see in there?
I am sure all of you know there are a lot of plants in them; if you
look carefully you will be able to discover plenty of different plants
and animals.
There are leafy forests all over the world and probably people from
the nearby areas could tell us wonderful stories about them. The forests
are very beautiful and useful, because they have a lot of valuable
things: delicious fruit, plants from which we obtain medicines, rubber...
Besides the forests give us the oxygen we breathe and the wood to
make pieces of furniture, to built houses and monuments and paper.
Today we are going to "make" a small forest on a tray. We will see
how some grass grows up as the time goes by and how the tray becomes
a small forest.
The children will be split up in-groups of five or
six people each. Each group will have a plastic tray, paper towels and
some root-vegetables (carrots, turnips, beets...)
These are the steps the children have to follow:
- Place
2 or 3 paper towels inside the tray.
- Cut
the inferior part of the vegetables (helped by the teacher).
- Place
the vegetables over the towels.
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Soak the towels with water.
- Set
up the tray in a warm and lighted place.
Each day a member of each group will be the person
in charge of the experiment; he/she will have to keep the paper towels
wet.
With a lot of patience, caring, water and light we
will see how some leaves start to grow from the vegetables. Thus our
tray will become a small forest.
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