Planting in the Garden

OBJECTIVE Students will be able to plant in the garden. Including weeding, adding compost mixing, planting seeds and watering ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What do plants need to grow? How do we plant in the garden? MATERIALS NEEDED • Seeds• Trowels• Compost• Watering cans• Bucket filled with water for dipping watering cans into PROCEDURE Make sure that […]

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Planning our Garden

OBJECTIVE Students will understand the different growing needs of different plants, the difference between perennial and annual plants. Students will understand the benefits and challenges of an annual raised bed growing system. Students are able to. organize a planting chart for different annual crops based on their growing needs. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What are the diverse […]

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Plan a Whaler’s Menu

OBJECTIVE Students will be able to design a whaler’s menu considering the limitations of eating on a whaling ship ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS Where does food come from? How does food build community? How do we preserve our fresh harvests? How did sailors adapt to the food options on a whaling ship? How did mealtime build and […]

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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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Making Salad

OBJECTIVE Students will be able to collaboratively prepare and eat food from the garden ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What are our favorite foods? What do we like to eat on salad? What’s growing in our garden? MATERIALS NEEDED PROCEDURE IntroductionWe are going to celebrate the end of our year together. We will harvest what we’ve been growing! […]

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