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process (Shafer & Adkins, 2004). We reviewed the stages of growth over many
sessions and she was able to understand the concept of seed to plant and she could
also explain the process to her peers. We invested a great deal of time in the
process of how a seed changes because it is a process that occurs underground; this
child could not refer to images to gain a deeper understanding of the stages of
growth. We went on to plant real pumpkins seeds and explored the plants during
each stage of their development. We also explored a pumpkin to discover how the
process continues in a cycle as we took the seeds out to grow in our garden outside.
Image 1. Teacher pointing to a leaf at the end of a row of a diagram about how a
pumpkin seed grows from a seed, to a seed with roots, to a seed with roots and
sprouts, and finally to a seed with roots, sprouts and leaves.
