{"id":1753,"date":"2009-09-14T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T23:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1753"},"modified":"2009-09-14T18:48:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T23:48:08","slug":"teaching-life-science-with-childrens-literature-the-carrot-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/14\/teaching-life-science-with-childrens-literature-the-carrot-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Life Science with Children’s Literature: The Carrot Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Plants are growing everywhere you look…everywhere!!! It can be a little bit overwhelming for a kid to learn that it all grows the same way.\u00a0 The Carrot Seed<\/u><\/a>, by Ruth Krauss and pictures by Crockett Johnson (author and illustrator of Harold and the Purple Crayon<\/a>) is a endearingly simple tale of a little boy who wants to grow something on his own.<\/p>\n

Everyone (his brother, his mother, and his father too!!) keeps telling him the carrot seed he planted won’t come up.<\/p>\n

His mother said, “I’m afraid it won’t come up.”<\/em>
\nHis father said, “I’m afraid it won’t come up.”
\nAnd his big brother said, “It won’t come up.”<\/em><\/p>\n

But this did not discourage the little boy. Each day he sprinkled the seed with water and carefully pulled up any weeds who tried to stake their claim.\u00a0 The carrot seed still did not come up.\u00a0 Day after day he was discouraged by those around him but he held on to his confidence that it would<\/strong> come up.\u00a0 One day…it did! Just like he knew it would.<\/p>\n

Curriculum Connections<\/strong><\/p>\n

This book would be a great way to introduce the SOLs K.6a, 1.4a, & 1.4b.\u00a0 It introduces students to what I think is one of the hardest things to understand about plants – they don’t grow overnight!\u00a0 This book will help kids to understand if the little seeds they plant don’t show up for a week or two OR if maybe their best friend’s seed has popped through the soil but theirs has not yet arrived.<\/p>\n

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