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**YEAR LEVEL:** Stage One

**SUBJECT AREA:** Science and Technology

**TIMING:**

**__Introduction-__** allow 2 minutes for this as you will let students read what it says, study the picture and start to get excited. **__Task-__** allow 2 minutes for this; let students read the task to themselves then read it out loud to the class. **__Process__-** allow 30 minutes for this; go through the growth of a plant on this website first as a class, then let students come up as groups or individuals and let them understand this explanation of growing a plant; hand out a sheet to each group which has the steps of what to do on it in case they forget, then go through with the experiment. **__Assessment-__** allow 2 minutes for this; let students read the assessment rubric to themselves then read it out loud to the class. **__Conclusion-__** allow 9 minutes for this discussion.

**CONTENT STRAND:**

Knowledge & Understanding: Learning processes Students will:
 *  state the purpose of an investigation.


 *  give examples of the ways the different senses can be used in observing.


 * recognises that. discoveries can be made through play, exploring and experimenting.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">demonstrates that tools and equipment can be used to aid observation.