Students know that there are recognizable patterns on earth.To demonstrate the rotation of earth, students will track the shadows on a sundial throughout the day.

Students will learn how descriptive words make stories clearer and more interesting to read.

In this lesson, students will collect data about an observation that can be made in the outdoor classroom, record the data on a table, and compare the numbers collected by writing greater-than, less-than statements.

Using a student-generated paragraph about observations in their outdoor classroom, students will be able to distinguish facts and opinions.

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. 

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.

In this lesson, students will formulate and interpret cause-and-effect relationships using a 3-column chart to organize their ideas.Students will apply the concept of "cause" as something that always happens first, and the effect is the resulting outcome (or what happens second).

Students will understand that wind and water can change the shape of the land. And that because there is always more than one possible solution to a problem, it is useful to compare and test designs.

Some living things and their offspring have traits that are similar, but not exactly alike. Students will identify the traits of different plants in the garden.

The students will use their knowledge of decimals and place value to compare decimals using greater than less than and equal to symbols.

Students will use the decomposition of a compost pile to visualize fractions as parts of a whole.

Students will use knowledge of life cycles to collect evidence of the stages of life a plant goes through.

Students will use their knowledge of operations and estimation to solve real world problems.

Students will use their knowledge of life cycles to find evidence of various plant life cycles and compare to that of frogs, beetles, butterflies.

In this lesson, students will use an existing compost pile to make observations that will help them better understand the decomposition process.

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.

Students will observe, compare different objects, and be able to identify the properties of specific materials.

Students will explore the outdoor classroom in pairs looking for evidence of animal life and imagining what types of animals might live in, and survive in, the outdoor classroom area.

Students will explore the biome in which they live while comparing it to other major biomes around the world.Standard(s): 5.L.2.1Compare the characteristics of several common ecosystems

In this lesson students will use their knowledge of decimals to solve problems in a real- world setting.