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Creating a Pond Habitat in your School Garden

Students design, create, and install a lasting piece of the school garden.  Through creating a pond habitat high school students are challenged to build a sustainable ecosystem from start to finish.  The lesson includes instructions for installation and information regarding the many forms of life found in a pond habitat and their relationship to one another.

Exploring Asexual Propagation

In this lesson, students explore asexual propagation through cutting and dividing a variety of plants. A table of plants have been selected to provide for the best results for use in any classroom.

Launching Laudable Landscapes

Students find or design their own garden plan while using knowledge of geometry and shapes, with the potential of actually implementing the garden design in their school or community.

 

How Does Your Garden Grow?

In this lesson, students learn how to use natural fertilizers and pesticides in their own organic vegetable garden. Students must determine what vegetables are best suited to grow in their area and select the appropriate location and soil.

An Eye on the Garden

Students explore the garden by looking carefully at plant selections.  Using technology, such as digital cameras, students can capture changes in the schoolyard habitat and sharpen their observation skills. Through “framing” items in the garden that most appeal to them, students examine photo-worthy items and learn how to best capture those with the camera. While taking an investigative look into the patterns and shapes of various botanical selections, students gain a new perspective to observe the garden.

Green Thumbs and Dirty Fingernails

In this lesson, students learn about plant parts, needs and characteristics through identifying and comparing seeds.  Students the design a garden using computer software and plant a garden that would support the growth of plants in the proper climate zone.

Exploring Hydroponics

This complete online curriculum provides lessons, step by step instructions to set up a working indoor hydroponics system, planting advice, general hydroponics knowledge, nutrient information to meet the needs of plants, a history of hydroponics, classroom stories, and resources and suppliers. Lessons can be adapted for all grade levels.

Building Soil Nature's Way

This classroom project is an exploration of building life-giving humus. Students explore soil health by building a lasagna garden.  By marking off a garden area and adding layer after layer of compost, organic matter and high-nitrogen materials students explore the process of decomposition and learn the importance of nutrient-rich soil as a base for a successful garden.

Growing UP (and around, and down...)

In this project from KidsGardening.org, students build garden structures, giving them a chance to track and experiment with plant tropisms (responses to various environmental stimuli). The three types of garden structures featured in the activity can be adapted to fit budget and climate and include ideas for connecting the project to the curricular focus of the classroom.

iGo Vampire Power Calculator

The Vampire Power Calculator from iGo calculates exactly how much money the electronics at home or school are draining each year. The app also includes a quiz and tips and tricks for saving energy and money. Another great tool for energy audits.

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