OBJECTIVE

• Students learn how to transplant flowers into the garden.
• Students use their senses to experience the garden.

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

How do we plant a pollinator garden? How can we capture the experience of the garden in a poem?

MATERIALS NEEDED

Flower starts, word harvest worksheets

PROCEDURE

Introduction: What do we already know about pollination? How have flowers adapted for animal pollinators? How have animals adapted for flowers? What do the flowers get out of the deal? What do the animals get out of the deal? 

• Look at flower growth 
• Discuss transplanting process
• Discuss garden poetry
  • What is a poem?
  • Discuss senses 
  • Read examples
  • Explain word harvest worksheet

Activity: 

• Station 1: planting flowers 
• Station 2: word harvest worksheet

Wrap up: 

• Share observations and feelings from worksheets
• Write group poem on white board (if time available)
• Next time we meet we will use what we have here to write poems in the garden.