School Gardening Part 1: Getting Started
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Provided by: New York Botanical Garden|Published on: April 6, 2024
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Synopsis
- This first resource in the series provides an introductory video, tip sheets, teacher support documents, and two lessons to help your students map out a garden spot an then write persuasively to their peers about their choice of garden theme.
- Teachers will learn the proper tools, classroom management strategies, budget considerations, and botany terms to help them start a garden for their students.
- The resource also includes grant opportunities and resources for New York City teachers.
Subjects: English Language Arts, Mathematics
Authors: New York Botanical Garden
Region: North America, USA - Northeast, United States, Global, New York, New York City
Languages: English
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Positives
- The lesson plans suggest various final products students can create based on their interests.
- The resource provides a comprehensive collection of information teachers can use to start their school garden, accounting for curriculum, materials, and space considerations.
- Teachers anywhere in the United States can benefit from the information the resource provides.
Additional Prerequisites
- The Mapping the Garden lesson plan references a Garden Planning Activity sheet that is not included.
- Students should know the elements of a map and how to find points on a coordinate plane.
- For the Persuasive Writing in the Garden lesson, teachers must find anchor texts to use persuasive writing examples and provide different types or themes of gardens to research.
Differentiation
- Older students completing the Mapping the Garden activity can make math connections by finding the perimeter or area of map features.
- Students can study irrigation systems and participate in an engineering activity to develop the best system for their school garden.
- A school garden can spark a conversation about the importance of biodiversity and how climate change impacts it.
- Younger students completing the Persuasive Writing in the Garden activity can do a simplified version, working from a sentence stem such as, "Our garden should__because__."
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