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Investigating plant growth, sharing personal memories and role playing provide more activities for a time project by Jane Drake Continue to explore the passage of time with children, making sure that all explorations are meaningful. When looking back into a past that is beyond the child's life span, role play provides a 'real' context for learning.

Continue to explore the passage of time with children, making sure that all explorations are meaningful. When looking back into a past that is beyond the child's life span, role play provides a 'real' context for learning.

Adult-led activities

Go for growth

Develop children's sense of time through an investigation into plant growth.

Key learning intentions

To understand and use vocabulary related to time

To compare and measure height and size

To find out about plant growth and to observe and talk about changes over time

To use digital photography to document the growth stages at regular intervals

Adult:child ratio planting 1:4; monitoring growth 1:2 or small groups Resources

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