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SEL - connecting gardens to our social and emotional needs as teachers and students.

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SEL - connecting gardens to our social and emotional needs as teachers and students.

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Teach about the beneficial association between plants, specifically through the cultivation called "The three sisters" (corn, beans and squash) and associate it with the history of the pre-colombian peoples of south america

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Teach about the beneficial association between plants, specifically through the cultivation called "The three sisters" (corn, beans and squash) and associate it with the history of the pre-colombian peoples of south america

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I collaborate with 9 early childhood teachers regularly to plan curriculum on their designated outdoor day but this year our school is strongly encouraging our teachers in grades 1-5 to better utilize our outdoor spaces in light of Covid 19. I maintain a large vegetable garden, pollinator garden and three nature trails on campus that I know our older elementary students would benefit from. From math, science, history, language arts, to connecting with nature and our local ecology there are so many opportunities. I’m hoping to gather more lessons for these grades to help our teachers see the cross curricular possibilities. 

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I collaborate with 9 early childhood teachers regularly to plan curriculum on their designated outdoor day but this year our school is strongly encouraging our teachers in grades 1-5 to better utilize our outdoor spaces in light of Covid 19. I maintain a large vegetable garden, pollinator garden and three nature trails on campus that I know our older elementary students would benefit from. From math, science, history, language arts, to connecting with nature and our local ecology there are so many opportunities. I’m hoping to gather more lessons for these grades to help our teachers see the cross curricular possibilities. 

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Lesson on soil combined with sensory exploration and art

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Lesson on soil combined with sensory exploration and art

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Spoke to Early childhood classes about living healthy soil. Showed jar with layers of sand, silt and clay and properties of each type.
Took kids outside with paper cups and spoons to scoop up clay dominant soil, sandy soil and loamy soil. Explored differences with their senses.. smell, touch, sight.
Combined their soil collections with mud and thinned with water. I Paper clipped paper on the fence and they painted with mud. The next day they helped me tear their mud paintings into small pieces and we added them to the compost and observed how quickly they decomposed.

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Pre-K Potion making/recipe writing exercise 

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Pre-K Potion making/recipe writing exercise 

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PreK students were having fun gathering  herbs, blooms, acorns for potions after a mud kitchen activity so we built on this interest.
They were asked to come up with something special & magical their potions might be able to do (make people smile, turn a leaf into a dinosaur)
Then they practiced their writing skills and learned how to list ingredients for a recipe by coming up with the ingredients needed for their potion.

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Grade level specific quick lessons for elementary school that could be developed into a self-directed garden experience while the school is closed but the garden is open, or for teachers to use on their own if we cannot have our volunteer master gardener teachers onsite

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Grade level specific quick lessons for elementary school that could be developed into a self-directed garden experience while the school is closed but the garden is open, or for teachers to use on their own if we cannot have our volunteer master gardener teachers onsite

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Using fruits/herbs from the Farmer’s Market and from our school garden, students created their own popsicles

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with Language Arts

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How does Americorp Vista work with funding for educating at educational gardens?

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How does Americorp Vista work with funding for educating at educational gardens?

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I'd like every academic teacher to ask the question, what are the natural connections in this lesson to the garden?

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I'd like every academic teacher to ask the question, what are the natural connections in this lesson to the garden?

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https://www.agclassroom.org/teacher/ag_facts.cfm

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We've been trying to come up with some sort of lesson talking about the materials we (humans) cook with (cast iron, clay, steel, aluminum) and how that effects the cooking of food and heat distribution and why we use a certain cooking vessel for certain dishes (e.g., tagine, paella pan, clay pot cooking). Would love for this to pull history and physics and engineering into it.

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Connecting the garden with good stories or books relating to gardening and environmental topics

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pen pals or garden pals from different countries or places in US/

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pen pals or garden pals from different countries or places in US/

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easy short lessons for really young ones

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easy short lessons for really young ones

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Unique funding opportunities for seed-to-table cross curricular learning. To cover costs.

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Math to weigh food waste
Environmental considerations
Food Systems
Chemistry related to food breakdown

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how to find schools to collaborate with and actually get in the classroom

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how to find schools to collaborate with and actually get in the classroom

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Growth rates of seedlings, ratios of what grows faster, slower, success rates, etc.

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fibonacci sequence with romanesco and sunflowers

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fibonacci sequence with romanesco and sunflowers

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Food systems in relation to climate change

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Food systems in relation to climate change

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Dyeing fabric or yarns with plants from the garden.  Creating something from the fabric or yarns

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Dyeing fabric or yarns with plants from the garden.  Creating something from the fabric or yarns

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I’d like to take the selective breeding topic and tie it into different cultures around the world.

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Talk to he or she about upcoming lessons in the curriculum

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Poetry using plants and senses in the garden

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Poetry using plants and senses in the garden

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Incorporating gardening with "at home" gardens & activities, getting creative

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Where do seeds come from? We find seeds in the garden

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Use math and science to talk about this problem and the environment and issues of hunger

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Blue corn pancakes. blue corn, math, 3 sisters, eat!

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Blue corn pancakes. blue corn, math, 3 sisters, eat!

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I am always keen to bring the students into the garden every day, but sometimes I find teachers are reluctant to take the time. How do you inspire teachers to join in?

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How do we keep equitable if we are on line teaching?

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How do we keep equitable if we are on line teaching?

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sociology and food - agri-culture and the development of societies, culture, internal bias, food raised etc.

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sociology and food - agri-culture and the development of societies, culture, internal bias, food raised etc.

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I would love to teach some concepts here

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How to get teachers to make time to collaborate with you? To get teachers who are use to a traditional teaching - in the classroom - to move outdoors.

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How to get teachers to make time to collaborate with you? To get teachers who are use to a traditional teaching - in the classroom - to move outdoors.

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Tying in agriculture into subject matter to encourage kids to see agriculture as a positive option for employment

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something based on A PLANT (central to a culture) - botany, cultural, recipes, art

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something based on A PLANT (central to a culture) - botany, cultural, recipes, art

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Find out where you agree or have similarities and start there

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Find out where you agree or have similarities and start there

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multi-culture, food writing, editing, imagining careers like cheffing, writing, editing, writing cookbooks, working for magazines

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seed, flower, small fruit
, large fruit, pie

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Disease and Infection Prevention and Treatment through Nutrition 

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Disease and Infection Prevention and Treatment through Nutrition 

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you can explore history, social science, chemistry and biology

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Students grew, harvested, and made jars of basil vinaigrette for the lunchroom. They learned the life cycle of a plant. They also learned about advertising and created their own Big Bad Basil vinaigrette labels.

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Using the garden to teach equity and diversity -gardens are full of diverse plants and foods - how do they get along? how can we?

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Using the garden to teach equity and diversity -gardens are full of diverse plants and foods - how do they get along? how can we?

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More chemistry or science NGSS based lessons.

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More chemistry or science NGSS based lessons.

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I'd love to have a lesson that incorporates cooking with health/wellness and immigration

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I'd love to have a lesson that incorporates cooking with health/wellness and immigration

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I am weak in math lessons for fourth grade... particularly fractions with pizza. I have a lesson I do annually but want to do it differently.

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I am weak in math lessons for fourth grade... particularly fractions with pizza. I have a lesson I do annually but want to do it differently.

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Also, how to do cooking lessons remotely

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seed breeding.  I want to create our own tomato and other veg. varieties

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seed breeding.  I want to create our own tomato and other veg. varieties

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I created a lesson which explored the history, sources and uses of salt and then students created their own salt blends using herbs and spices. We made popcorn and flavored the popcorn with the salt varieties - taste test, etc.

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Making a miso soup with kelp and kombu, which are vocab words from "Island of the blue dolphins"

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systems thinking/action - interdependence between soils (chemistry -biology - physics), plants (o2, C02, etc) and climate change

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systems thinking/action - interdependence between soils (chemistry -biology - physics), plants (o2, C02, etc) and climate change

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Growing, harvesting, and tasting ancient grains.

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Counting the seeds within various different fruits and vegetables and creating a graph

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Growing herbs for salves and historical context. 

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Growing herbs for salves and historical context. 

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I'd love to see examples of developing social-emotional intelligence as connected
with food

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language, textiles, art materials, scent/perfume, music, folk tales, cultural exchange, history

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language, textiles, art materials, scent/perfume, music, folk tales, cultural exchange, history

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History- Geography
- Discussing native plants as part of geography/ climate and the history and use of those native plants

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Decolonizing your diet series from Phat Beets in Oakland, CA.  A multidisciplinary look at chocolate, generating mindful tasting, critiquing capitalism, global trade, labor and consumerism.

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read a book called how many pumpkin seeds and then open different sized pumpkins and practice skip counting. I have done this with first graders and they will count 100-200 pumpkins seeds. Can roast pumpkin seeds to eat with the lesson. For older kids compare pumpkin seeds and pepitas and talk about see biology

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Writing poems in the garden. Poems to describe what students see, hear, smell

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Writing poems in the garden. Poems to describe what students see, hear, smell

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Food justice - history, civics, geography, economics, ELA, sustainability

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Food justice - history, civics, geography, economics, ELA, sustainability

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Is there a way to humanize difficult history through food so students can grasp it but that doesn't lighten the lived experiences of people involved? I'm thinking of enslavement in the United States or the forced movement of indigenous peoples.

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Dissecting flowers to find plant parts, counting seeds in a fruit

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Students explore where food comes from and who is responsible for getting food to market;

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SEL - connecting gardens to our social and emotional needs as teachers and students.

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SEL - connecting gardens to our social and emotional needs as teachers and students.

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How to get the other classroom teachers out in the garden more

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How to get the other classroom teachers out in the garden more

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Also, I imagine cultures and history through gardening practices. For example, how did/do indigenous people use the land? Could we learn from their land practices/stewardship by comparing and contrasting our modern practices?

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Edible flowers with Math and cheese making

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Edible flowers with Math and cheese making

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So much with math - baking, measurement, fractions

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So much with math - baking, measurement, fractions

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Students grew micro-greens indoors  under different types of lights.  Compared and contrasted growth patterns

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Using the garden in math and science lessons for grades K-5

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making pizza w/ingredients from the garden

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Everywhere... environmental issues and soial studies are the most common for me

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Everywhere... environmental issues and soial studies are the most common for me

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Plotting a new garden, using math to help create the layout for a new garden

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Math, history, geography, science. art. Culture. 

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Math, history, geography, science. art. Culture. 

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Learn about the movement of foods throughout history and how that relates to the modern day, such as mesoamerica and the aztecs, to medieval times.

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Hoping we get back to campus and I'd love to combine library time (research,  literature appreciation) with Garden class!

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What's in their food and where does it come from

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Organic gardening - soil care and looking after the planet plus our health

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We monitored the temperature of the compost overtime and made observations about how the matter was changing.

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Harvesting and eating a rainbow of colors tied to healthy, seasonal eating year round

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Harvesting and eating a rainbow of colors tied to healthy, seasonal eating year round