Students will explore the garden environment for examples of organisms having their needs met and will be given an event that might cause that organism to thrive, move or perish.
In this lesson students will observe some objects that they see in the daytime sky and discuss reasonings to changes and movement of features in the day and night sky.
In this lesson the students will create mixtures and note the physical properties of each of the ingredients within.
In this lesson students will use their knowledge of decimals to solve problems in a real- world setting.
In this lesson, students will explain their observations and understanding of various plant's external parts and how they help the plant survive in its environment.
Students will use knowledge of life cycles to collect evidence of the stages of life a plant goes through.
In this activity, students will create shadows and using this evidence they will write a scientific claim using evidence.
Students will use their knowledge of operations and estimation to solve real world problems.
Students will explore the components of soil and make a model of sedimentary rock layers and fossil fuels.
Students will prepare the vegetable beds for planting exploring how simple and compound machines work.
Students will arrange themselves in planetary order and determine the distance from the sun.
Students will listen for sounds in the garden paying careful attention to volume (how loud or soft a sound), pitch (how high or low) , or if it is a natural or man- made sound.
Students will use their knowledge of stem and leaf plots to represent temperature in various locations outdoors.
Students will explore the garden/outdoor classroom for examples of different plant structures and determine how plants use these structures to meet their needs.
In this lesson, students will take temperature readings in the outdoor classroom, compare them to data from a graph, and discuss the numerical differences between the readings and the data.
Students will observe and describe the physical properties of water by exploring water at different stations
Students will observe and record the changes caused by weathering and erosion from moving water have on limestone.
Students will recognize that mixtures are made when two or more materials from the garden are mixed together and the physical properties do not change.
Students monitor and record their heart rate and breathing rate during rest, mindfulness activities, and outdoor activity. Through reading nonfiction text (or watching similar content via video) students learn about the respiratory and circulatory systems structures and functions in order to craft an individualized “Eco-exercise or Mindfulness” Plan that includes OUTDOOR exercise or mindfulness activities to keep their circulatory and respiratory systems healthy. Students begin a “Healthy Mind, Healthy Body, Healthy ME” journal that will be continued in later lessons.