Plant Sale: Check Out

OBJECTIVE Students will be able to add up plant sale orders to find their cost. Students will be able to communicate the cost of plants to customers. Students will be able to receive currency from customers and make change. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS How do gardens grow community? MATERIALS PROCEDURE Introduction: With a week to go until […]

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Squash Seed Counting

OBJECTIVE Students will count the number of seeds in a winter squash. Students will understand seeds can grow into plants. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS Why do plants make seeds? What seeds do people eat? MATERIALS PROCEDURE Introduction: Introduce students to the winter squash or pumpkins that you brought in. Read How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin by […]

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Pizza Garden

OBJECTIVE Students will utilize the principles of arcs, tangents, circumference, radius, and circular area to design a “Pizza Garden”. Students will see how moving from equations to real life presents challenges, and at the same time how important it is to know the equations to make the application work. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS How can we use […]

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Planting Garlic

OBJECTIVE Students will be able to plant garlic ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What grows during each seasons? MATERIALS NEEDED PROCEDURE IntroductionBegin with an inquiry about the season and observations about nature’s current cycle. Plants are going dormant for the winter, and will wake up again in the Spring. We will plant our bulbs, which will rest in […]

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Pizza Garden

OBJECTIVE Students will be able to design a pizza garden based on plants spacing needs ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What do plants need to grow? How do I grow a garden? How do plants grow and change over time? MATERIALS NEEDED PROCEDURE Introduction:There are so many ways we can grow food in a garden, and one of […]

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Measuring In the Garden

OBJECTIVE Students will be able to measure the height of vegetables in the garden Students will be able to notice that different plants grow to different heights ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What helps plants grow? How do plants change over time? MATERIALS NEEDED Large easel paper with question “How many cubes tall are our plants?”MarkersUnifix cubesWatering cans […]

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