Gardening Project Curriculum

9/9/15

• Friend of the Day- getting to know our classmates through picking out a name from a hat and asking that person questions about themselves. Students create an individual page for the Friend of the Day that is put into a book that the Friend of the Day takes home that afternoon.
• Question: What is a seed?
• Collect information from students about what they know or think they know about seeds
• Read the book Seeds and add to our chart of what we know about seeds
• Record additional questions we have about seeds
• Exploration: Observing and diagramming a lima bean
• Introduction to Scientific Method:
• Explain observation, hypothesis and conclusion.
• Use these terms to make a hypothesis (as a picture with labels in “Seed Journal”)
• about what will happen to dill seeds planted in eggshells with one wet cotton-ball and one dry cotton- ball

9/14/15

• Friend of the Day

• Spanish: Introduce days of the week and the current month
• Seed Study:
• Read aloud How A Seed Grows
• Revisit scientific method
• Demonstrate what happens when you dip a finger in dishwashing liquid and then into a bowl of pepper
• Create a hypothesis about what might happen with other types of soaps (shampoo and regular bar soap)
• Test hypothesis
• Plant Kidney beans in jars with damp paper towels
• make a hypothesis in journals what will happen to the beans/how they will grow over time

9/16/15

• Friend of the Day
• Spanish
• Seed Study:
• Read Aloud Seed is Sleepy
• Graphing
• Taking surveys of favorite ice cream flavors, animals, etc.
• Modeling how to show results of survey on a bar graph, students create their own graphs

9/21/15

• Friend of the Day
• Spanish
• Seed Study:
• Read Alouds- What do Roots Do? How do Flowers Grow?
• Mystery Science video: students get a “plant card” that tells them what conditions their plant grows best in. Students decide where to plant based on information about sections of a garden given in video.
• Area and Perimeter:
• Model how to find the perimeter of items in the classroom with objects in the room (popsicle sticks, marbles, crayons, etc.)
• Students find items in the room to measure (glue bottle, table, book, etc.) the perimeter using these items and record findings
• Model finding perimeter using square grid paper--counting sides
• Finding area by counting number of squares on the inside
• Students design a play area for their pet on square graph paper and record area and perimeter