Spring Has Sprung in 2nd Grade by Christy Williams (2nd grade teacher and team leader)

 

If you happen to look in the window of any second grade classroom, you will see plants sprouting!  Second graders have been learning about plants.  We have learned about the basic needs of plants.  We learned about how they physical characteristics of a plant help it meet its basic needs such as stems carry water throughout the plant.  Students even discussed factors in the environment like temperature and precipitation that affect plant growth.

                       

 

Students have been recording and measuring their plants growth in their science journals.

We also experimented with withholding basic needs from seeds and seeing what might happen.  We made sure that one cup had no soil, one had water, one had no air and one had no sunlight.

                            

 

 

We discovered that by without sunlight our plants still grew but were a yellow color instead of green.

Great learning - great fun!