Taking to the outdoors in urban settings encourages plant knowledge and healthy lifestyles Gardening experiences provide ample opportunities to explore how plants grow, what plants need to grow, how to care for plants, and how to harvest the edible parts of plants. Learning Activity 3: Parts of Plants As children dissected a plant, they touched, felt, smelled, and examined each grown plant and the different parts of the plant using magnifying glasses (exploration). Preparing high-quality early STEM/STEAM educators require high-quality teacher preparation field experiences with young children, families, and communities. [Extracted from the article]