What is a Mixture? -- Out Teach
(View Complete Item Description)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.
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Physical Properties Mix It Up -- Out Teach
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson the students will create mixtures and note the physical properties of each of the ingredients within.
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Decomposers in Compost -- Out Teach
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will use an existing compost pile to make observations that will help them better understand the decomposition process.
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Food Webs -- Out Teach
(View Complete Item Description)Students will observe organisms in their ecosystem and describe the flow of energy in food webs
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Food Chains -- Out Teach
(View Complete Item Description)Students will learn about the ways garden organisms depend on each other for survival and create "human" food chains to show how energy is transferred from the sun to living things.
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Soil Around Our Town
(View Complete Item Description)Students will study the soil both in the school garden and then in their outdoor environment at home. They will compare the various soils to identify the soil types they observed and discuss the plant life each soil type supports. Students will time the flow of water through different soils and observe the amount of water held in these soils. They will also observe the filtering ability of soils by noting the clarity of the water before and after it passes through the soil.
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Interdependence in Ecosystems -- Out Teach
(View Complete Item Description)Students investigate how living and non- living elements interact with one another in an ecosystem by observing interactions in the garden.
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Heat Transfer and Energy Conservation -- Out Teach
(View Complete Item Description)Students will take temperature readings and collect anecdotal evidence to determine how different materials absorb the sun's heat.
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Light and Heat from the Sun -- Out Teach
(View Complete Item Description)Students will use knowledge of the sun's characteristics to find evidence in the outdoor classroom that support various scientific claims.
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Properties of Light -- Out Teach
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students will create shadows and using this evidence they will write a scientific claim using evidence.
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Forms of Energy -- Out Teach
(View Complete Item Description)Students will explore the garden for different forms of energy including mechanical, electrical, light, thermal and sound energy.
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Plant Structures -- Out Teach
(View Complete Item Description)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.
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Do Plants Have Bodies Too?
(View Complete Item Description)Students explore outdoors to search for plant body parts (roots, stems, leaves, and flowers) and explain the function of each part of the plant as it relates to the plant’s survival. Students then research a vegetable from a list of vegetables commonly grown in a school garden in order to sketch that vegetable with body parts, describe the function of each part, and discuss which body parts are typically eaten. As a mathematics connection, students use triangles and quadrilaterals to create a model of a plant with all four main body parts.
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Needs for Survival -- Out Teach
(View Complete Item Description)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.
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Heat Energy - Solar Ice Experiment -- Out Teach
(View Complete Item Description)Students will experiment with different areas of the garden that absorb heat from the sun the best.
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Sun and Water for Plants -- Out Teach
(View Complete Item Description)Students will work in teams to determine how to best conduct an experiment outdoors to see if plants need sunlight and water to grow.
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Plants Life Cycles -- Out Teach
(View Complete Item Description)Students will use knowledge of life cycles to collect evidence of the stages of life a plant goes through.
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Animal Survival -- Out Teach
(View Complete Item Description)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.
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Heat Transfer -- Out Teach
(View Complete Item Description)Students will explore the outdoor classroom for natural examples of heat transfer through conduction, convection, and radiation.
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Magnetize Engagement -- Out Teach
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students explore magnets in the outdoor learning space.
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