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OBJECTIVE Students roll dice to collect cards with different ingredients for compost. This game is an introduction to the term “decompose”, “compost”, and “decomposer”. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What are decomposers?What do they do?What are the ingredients in compost? MATERIALS NEEDED Compost game cards (with cards for Brown/Carbon, Decomposers, Green/Nitrogen and Plastic)Die PROCEDURE Introduction:Ask if anyone knows […]
OBJECTIVE Students understand the role of plant matter and microorganisms in building healthy soil. Students are able to plant a cover crop ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS How can we build soil? MATERIALS NEEDED Legume plant with roots and nodes Cover crop seed Cover crop PowerPoint PROCEDURE Introduction: You guys are newly in charge of a bed in […]
OBJECTIVE Students will be able to determine what seeds need and plan a garden ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS How do seeds grow? Why is it important to know where our seeds come from? What do seeds need? How can we make change through our food system MATERIALS NEEDED Seed packets. Approx. 30 different crops.Index cardsCrop plan template […]
OBJECTIVE Students will understand the relationships between different plants and how plants help each other grow. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS Why do we plant different plants together? How can plants help other plants? MATERIALS NEEDED Six packs of plants (one per pair of students) Potting soil Tomatoes (and marigolds, if not already started) Watering cans Labels and […]
OBJECTIVE Students will learn how to make butter ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS Where does food come from? Where does butter come from? What is butter? How can we feed ourselves? What happens on a farm in winter? MATERIALS NEEDED An old-fashioned butter churn or picture of onePer group:• Whipping or heavy cream at room temperature, approximately one […]
OBJECTIVE Students will figure out where to search for bugs, and will observe some of the bugs that live in the garden. If you do this lesson towards the end of a series on bugs (in our toolkit, we lump worm painting, worm stories, pollinators in the garden, and building a worm bin into a […]
