Grade 1 School Garden Lesson Plan - Potential Garden-Based Lessons ~ Massachusetts
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Grade 1 School Garden Lesson Plan - Potential Garden-Based Lessons ~ Massachusetts
- 1. Grade 1 Potential Garden-Based Lessons for the School Garden Science Earth and Space Science Standard 3. Describe the weather changes from day-to-day and over the seasons - Keep a garden weather log, using visual observation and simple instruments. - Describe what is happening in the garden due to weather and seasons. Standard 4. Recognize that the sun supplies heat and light ... and is necessary for life. - Mark the reach of shadows in the garden during different times of day with stakes or landscaping flags. Record. Discuss how the sun affects plants, and talk about where the best place would be in the garden area to grow sun loving plants. Participate in planting these plants. Science Life Science Standard 1. Recognize that animals and plants are living things that grow, reproduce, and need food, air and water. - Take on the responsibility of watering the garden for part of the week. Link to the weather station and see if it has already rained enough that day. Observe what happens to plants when you don’t water them by setting up test plots or leaving a pot unwatered for a few days. Link these needs to humans, and what we need . Standard 3. Recognize that plants and animals have life cycles... - Follow the life cycle of plants you are growing in the garden such as a tomato. Start the seeds in the classroom under lights, transplant into the garden, observe the plant flowering and producing fruit. Save seed from the fruit to plant and start the cycle again the next year. Standard 7. Recognize changes in appearance the animals and plants go through as the seasons change. - Make observations about the garden and school ground animals in each season. Make a poster with categories such as insects, plants, animals, humans etc and explain what you observe about each one. Standard 8. Identify the ways in which an organism’s habitat provides for its basic needs... - Plant a pollinator garden with shelter for butterflies and birds, install a bird bath or bird houses in the garden, make a toad home. Talk about what each of these things provides in terms of the needs of these things History and Social Studies Standard 1.6 Give reasons for noting the days that mark the changes in seasons. - Keep a classroom seasonal calendar. Show the solstices and the equinoxes and discuss how they are the beginning of Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. Look at which cultural holidays are near these dates. Hold events on these dates and celebrate customs of celebration from around the world e.g. Easter or passover for Spring. Standard 1.9 Explain that Americans have a variety of different religious, community and family celebrations and customs. - Plant theme gardens growing plants important to different traditions. Make posters as a class each showing a plant and why it is important to people (e.g. recipes, holidays it is eaten at, other ways it is used such as decoration or fiber)
- 2. Mathematics Standards Standard 1. Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems. - Do seed saving from the garden. Count seed yields, do germination tests and use addition and subtraction to figure out how many seeds sprouted out of total seed yield. Geometry Standard 3. - Harvest round things like melons from your garden. - Figure out how to divide them up amongst students in the class into equal shares. Measurement and Data Standard 2. - Designate each child a plant. Put a measuring stick next to their plant and record how tall it is as it grows. Use a rain gauge to measure rain fall in whole units. English Language Arts Standards Writing Standards: 2. Write informative/ explanatory texts 5. Respond to questions and suggestions from peers and adults... 6. Use a variety of digital tools to publish writing 7. Participate in shared research writing projects - Write step by step explanations of common garden activities. - Write thank you letters to volunteers and donors to the garden. - Write opinion pieces, informational pieces, and how-to-articles about garden topics and contribute to, or start a garden magazine. Publish your garden magazine and share with other classes, parents and community members. - Make a presentation about your favorite garden vegetable and why people should eat it! Language Standards: 5. Vocabulary acquisition and use: demonstrate understanding of word relationships - Keep individual or a group garden journal, recording observations from the garden. Use descriptive words about the seasons etc.