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A Sunflower's Life Cycle: Seed, Sprout, Flower, Seed

  • Kindergarten
  • Science
  • 1 min 3 s
  • British Columbia
  • BCK-SC-11

A sunflower seed is planted in spring and soaks up rain, sends roots down and a sprout up, grows tall in the summer sun and opens a yellow flower, then fills with new seeds, and some of them fall to the ground in autumn. Four labelled cards build up one stage at a time, and a looping arrow from the new seeds back to the first seed shows that the life cycle goes round and round.

Concept: A plant's life cycle: seed, sprout, flower, seed

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The question this lesson answers

How does a big sunflower grow?

In spring, we plant a sunflower seed.

Transcript

What the lesson says

How does a big sunflower grow?

In spring, we plant a sunflower seed.

The seed soaks up water and starts to grow.

First, little roots grow down into the soil.

Then a green sprout pushes up into the light.

In summer, the sun helps it grow tall.

Then a big yellow flower opens up.

The flower makes lots of new seeds.

In autumn, some seeds fall to the ground.

Each seed can grow a new sunflower.

It goes round and round: a life cycle.

Seed, sprout, flower, new seeds, and round again!

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Kindergarten

Science, Biology: seasonal changesBCK-SC-11

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The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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