Lesson: Your Everyday Garden:
This lesson is to show children the wonders of the earth in their very own backyard! It is also to teach them to learn to respect nature, and to teach them how easy it is to grow something beautiful.
In this lesson children will first, with the aid of a parent/guardian at home venture into their backyard and write down what it is they see. Then in class the children as a whole will discuss what each other saw, and then brainstorm as to what needs to be in a garden or simple what something needs to grow. The students then will be given time to look up on particular websites that the teacher has ready to see what it takes to plant something, and what a plant needs to grow to see if they were correct in their brainstorming. This is a great way for them to practice researching and also identifying facts on documents online. The lesson then will continue so that each student will be given soil, plant seeds, a planting pot, water, and tools to plant with the aid of the teacher. Each student will take care of his/her plant as it is growing each week in class until it is fully grown. At the end when their plant is fully grown, and again after being given specific websites, will go and see what type of plant they grew and what it is called, as well as its origin. This lesson is done to show children in a small way how nature works in the world around them, and the respect and patience it takes to plant and grown something. As well as aiding them in understanding how to research something and identifying facts.
3 comments:
I think that is a great lesson! It's so creative and I really love how you get the families involved in the adventure in the backyard. I also really like how you have the students researching online and having specific websites for them to visit. But since this project is supposed to deal with digital images do they have to take a picture of their plants or get an image off the internet?
Such a great idea! And what a pretty picture! It is a great idea to incorporate a variety of means, like families into it. It shows their personal lives :) Having students think "outside the box" and researching is a great, advanced method to get them used to the computer. I agree with Kacie- how would they get the images?
I like your idea! I like the fact that you're having the children plant seeds. I think it would make a bigger impact to have them plant than just talking about it because they get to use more intelligences like kinesthetic.
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