Topic: Home garden

Target group

4th‑grade students of elementary school

Core Curriculum

General aim of education

Students give examples of plants grown by man and exchange basic principles of care for them

Key competences

• communication in foreign languages;

• digital competence;

• learning to learn.

Criteria for success
The student will learn:

• recognize and name popular crops;

• indicate the benefits of self‑cultivation of plants;

• correctly transplant plants.

Methods/techniques

• expository

  • talk.

• activating

  • brainstorming.

• programmed

  • with computer;

  • with e‑textbook.

• practical

  • exercices concerned.

Forms of work

• individual activity;

• activity in pairs;

• activity in groups;

• collective activity.

Teaching aids

• e‑textbook;

• notebook and crayons/felt‑tip pens;

• interactive whiteboard, tablets/computers;

• flowerpot;

• Earth;

• gravel;

• rubber gloves;

• geranium cuttings;

• shoulders.

Lesson plan overview

Before classes

• Students get acquainted with the content of the abstract. They prepare to work on the lesson in such a way to be able to summarize the material read in their own words and solve the tasks themselves.

Introduction

• The teacher gives the topic, the goals of the lesson in a language understandable for the student, and the criteria of success.

Realization

• The teacher asks the pupils to exchange known names of potted plants. All he writes on the board. Then the students check on the Internet whether the names they provide are correct. The ones that are correct are circled in green and rewritten to the notebook.

• Students will get acquainted with the content of the abstract and then define the conditions that must be met in order for the plants to become magnificent and healthy. The teacher asks students whether their requirements should be identical for each potted plant. Students give answers justifying her.

• The teacher asks students to carry out the recommended interactive exercise themselves.

• Participants familiarize themselves with the content presented in the interactive illustration. Then the teacher discusses the issues with the students.

• The lecturer displays photographs showing replanting of potted plants and describes step by step the stages of planting geraniums.

• Students themselves plant geraniums.

• The teacher explains the homework, discusses the way the students keep the documentation and determines the time of reporting.

Summary

• Students indicate the benefits of self‑cultivation of plants.

• Students perform Exercise No. 2.

• The teacher asks students to complete the sentence: „In today's lesson, I have learned ...”.

Homework

• Students care about the well‑being of the geranium planted in the lesson, observe its development and keep the necessary documentation..

The following terms and recordings will be used during this lesson

Terms

Texts and recordings

Home garden

People not only breed animals, but also cultivate plants. Some can be cultivated for pleasure, others for their beautiful flowers of leaves. However, the most important are plants that provide sustinence (e.g. cereals, fruit shrubs and trees), oil (e.g. sunflower) and fibres used in the production of fabrics (linen, cotton).

An important group of plants cultivated on fields are root crops. They are challenging to cultivate and need a large amount of water, but in exchange provide many nutrients. They include, among others, potatoes, beets, carrots, parsley and chicory.

As regards the human economy, oilseeds also play an important role. Their seeds contain large amounts of fats used in the production of cooking oil – a healthier alternative to animal fats. For several years now, it’s also been used in the production for biofuels.

Many of those who live outside rural areas cultivate plants, for example in allotments. Their owners have their own vegetables and fruit – they don’t have to buy them at the store for at least part of the year. Such gardes are also an additional and essential source of clean air in cities. The provide shelter to many animals, including birds. They are a place where people can rest, whereas the work they put in to cultivate plants gives them pleasure and keeps the in good health.

An allotment must be maintained in a way that will be beneficial for the environment. Lets check what mistakes to avoid when maintaining one’s own garden.

Those who live in the city and don’t have their own home garden or allotment can try their hand at cultivating plants as well. All they need is a flowerpot, appropriate garden soil and seeds or seedlings of plants they have chosen. All that’s needed to know are the requirements of the chosen plant: in what type of soil it thrives, whether it likes places with a lot of sunlight or shade, and how often it needs to be watered. All this information can be found, for instance, on the seed package, online or in guidebooks on how to cultivate plants. If you take good care of your plants, they will repay you with a healthy appearance and beautiful flowers. They will also purify the air in your home.

Plants cultivated in flowerpots use mineral soils absorbed from the soil. That’s why they need to be transplanted into larger pots each year. In addition, by transplanting a plant to a larger pot you’re giving it more space to develop roots. It’s quite easy to transplant plants.

• Plants are cultivated for pleasure and for business purposes.

• Gardens are an important part of the environment.

• Potted plants must be transplanted regularly.