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- Let each child examine a pea-pod, and describe its stalk, form, color, &c. Show a portion of a pea plant with pods attached.
- Each of the children should open a pod, and note how and where the seeds are attached.
- Explain that the peas are seeds, and compare with other seeds previously examined.
- Let each child examine the pea flower, and observe the young pod in the center. Show pods in different stages of growth.
- Sow a few peas of the previous season in a box of soil, and watch the growth of the pea plant at intervals of a few days.
How to Grade Study Notes For Student Journals: Every student will need a journal to write in weekly for this online nature study series. Teacher will assign the weekly content in advance.
- Make sure the facts are: written in complete sentences, the first word of each sentence capitalized, and a period should be included at the end of each sentence.
- Spell check your vocabulary and write the words correctly.
- Dress up your journal entries with student clip art, drawings of your own in color or in black and white.
- Student may also include photographs of their own taking for extra credit.
Look for the following facts about pea-pods inside of student journals. Assign a point value to the quality of the content.
- The Pod - A fruit. Stalk short, with five little green leaves (sepals of the flower) at the end.
- Pod formed of two parts, which readily separate when pressed. Splits open of itself when ripe.
- The Peas - All fastened along one edge of the pod, by means of very short stalks.
- The peas are seeds, each of which will grow into a plant if placed in the soil and kept moist.
- How the Pod grows - The pod is formed in the center of the pea flower.
- After the other parts of the flower have decayed and fallen off, the pod and the seeds within it continue to grow and ripen.
- If left on the plant long enough, the pod splits, and the seeds fall on the soil, where they grow into new plants.
Video at Youtube for Students to Watch:
- Growing Sweet Snap Pea Time Lapse - Seed to Pod in 60 days by eLapse
- How to grow snow peas, sweet peas, snap peas from seed to harvest by Jerra's Garden
The finished 3-D patch of pea-pod plants. |
Cut, Sculpt and Paste A Fun 3-D Pea-Pod Patch: To make this collage you will need the following supplies: green air-dry clay, green construction paper (in several shades), 2 paper plates, white school glue, green chenille stems, masking tape, tacky craft glue and brown acrylic paint.
Step-by-Step Instructions:
- Paint your paper plate brown. Let dry.
- Punch sets of two holes opposite ends of the paper plate per stem.
- Take chenille stems and thread opposite ends of each stem through each set of holes and tape in place.
- Now glue the second plate to the bottom of the first. This gives the plates strength for the collage and also covers up the taped chenille stems on the backside of the first plate.
- Cut pea shaped leaves from darkest green paper. Then paste these to the chenille stems and also onto the inside paper plate background. see photos below
- Construct the little pea pods to attach to the stems. Cut smallish rectangles from the green paper and fold each in half lengthwise.
- Glue the ends together to create a narrow pocket for the peas.
- Roll tiny pea shapes from the air-dry clay and then glue these inside each paper pod.
- Glue pea pods to the stems and also onto the paper plate background.
- Some of the peas may yet be immature and still have blossoms on their stems. So you may wish to add a few white pea-pod flowers to a stem or two. Make these flowers with tissue twisted about a few chenille stems and pasted directly onto the paper plate if desired.
Detailed photos of how the teacher pea-pod patch looks when completed. |
Free Student Clip Art: Clip art may be printed from a home computer, a classroom computer or from a computer at a library and/or a local printing service provider. This may be done from multiple locations as needed because our education blog is online and available to the general public.
1. Pod. - On a stalk. A fruit. Splits into two parts. 2. Peas. - Seeds. 3. How the Pod grows. - Formed in the center of the flower. Advanced coloring of sweet pea design for older students. |
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