During this lesson students will learn the six basic plant parts, gain an understanding of how they function to support plant survival, and create a vegetable wrap using all plant parts. A game will help students to begin thinking of the food they eat in terms of botany.
During this lesson, students will explore the many ways in which seeds move away from their parent plant. Students will have the opportunity to explore and examine the diverse world of seeds, become engineers during the Build a Seed activity, and have the opportunity to save seeds from their own garden.
During this lesson students will explore the garden habitat through game based learning, garden exploration, and working in the garden to improve their own schoolyard habitat. Students will learn the importance of food, water, and shelter, and begin to understand the different needs of organisms throughout the world.
During this lesson students will explore the role of worms in moving matter through their environment! Through hands-on observation, game based learning, and compost building, students get up close and personal with worms!
During this lesson students will learn about the seasonality of plants in connection to their climate. Students will mimic diverse plant lifecycles through a game, plant summer crops and survey the garden for different plant lifecycle stages.