
USING MATH TO CARE FOR PLANTS
Clip: 4/20/2023 | 5m 57sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
Eve Townsend counts, measures, and sings while caring for a plant.
In this video, Eve Townsends uses math to care for a plant. Eve counts the amount of water she gives the plant, measures the plant’s height, and then sings a song about a seed.
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USING MATH TO CARE FOR PLANTS
Clip: 4/20/2023 | 5m 57sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
In this video, Eve Townsends uses math to care for a plant. Eve counts the amount of water she gives the plant, measures the plant’s height, and then sings a song about a seed.
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I was just about to take care of my plant, Priscilla.
So this is Priscilla and I've had her for a little while and how I take care of her, I've been giving her every week, I've been giving her three of these small cups of water.
One, two, three.
You wanna water her with me?
Come on.
Look, it's easy.
So here's one and two, and three.
And so I give her three cups of water.
So I've had Priscilla for a little while now and I've had her by this window so she gets lots of light and I've been giving her water every week and she's been growing a lot.
So I also her measure her.
I measure to see how tall she's getting, to see how much she's growing.
So the way I do that, you can use anything that you have at home to measure.
They just have to be all the same size.
So I have a lot of these boxes in my kitchen.
So I use these boxes.
So what I do, I'm gonna stack the boxes up next to Priscilla and I'm gonna stack them up until they're, that they're both at the same height as Priscilla.
So here's, let me do this.
It might take a little while 'cause I've I've gotta watch it carefully.
What do you think?
Are these the same height?
I think I might be able to do one more box, let's see.
What about now?
I think that's about right.
I think that's about right.
So now all I have to do is count the number of boxes and that'll tell me how tall Priscilla is.
So Priscilla is one, two, three, she is three boxes tall.
So this week she's three boxes tall.
But I'm going to, when I water her next week, I'm gonna measure again.
What do you think?
Do you think she's gonna be three boxes tall?
Do you think she's gonna be more?
What do you think?
What do you think, we're gonna find out next week.
Oh, you're still here.
This is great.
I just learned this wonderful finger play about a little seed.
Can I teach it to you?
Great, awesome.
You're gonna follow along with me.
First we're gonna start, we're gonna be crouched down low 'cause we are a little seed, so follow after me.
Here's one little seed in the dark, dark ground.
Out come comes the sun, yellow, and round.
Down comes the rain, wet and slow.
Up comes the little seed, to grow, grow, grow.
Here are two little seeds in the dark, dark ground.
Out comes the sun, yellow and brown.
Down comes the rain, wet and slow.
Up comes the little seed, grow, grow, grow.
Here are three little seeds in the dark, dark ground.
Up comes the sun, yellow and round.
Down comes the rain, wet and slow.
Up comes the little seed, grow, grow, grow.
Here are four little seeds in the dark, dark ground.
Up comes the sun, yellow and round.
Down comes the rain, wet and slow.
Up comes the little seeds.
Grow, grow, grow.
Here are five little seeds in the dark, dark ground.
Up come the sun, yellow and round.
Down comes the rain, wet and slow.
Up come the little seeds, grow, grow, grow.
That was fun, right?
So did you notice what happened to the little seeds?
Yeah, they grew and grew and grew.
Do you remember what seeds need to grow?
Yeah, light and water.
But where did the little seeds get light and water from?
Oh yeah, they got light from the sun and water from the rain.
You are so smart.
Thank you so much for playing with me today.
I had so much fun.
Did you?
I'll see you next time.
Bye.
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