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Garden Curriculum Map

Page history last edited by catherine denham 9 years ago

Garden Curriculum Map

Kindergarten through 6th Grade

Grade
September
October November 
March April May

K

(half hour per week) 

Garden introduction

Plant lettuce, radishes

5-senses tour of garden

Harvesting mint and lamb's ear, marigolds

Learning about pumpkins.

Check on pumpkins. 

Taste-testing NC apple varieties

Watering with rain barrel water 

Apple trees

I spy in the gardens to learn about seasons

Watering with rain barrel water

Check on pumpkins and harvest

Harvest lettuce - fine motor skills - lettuce hair cut with scissors 

 

2nd lettuce harvest, glean from mint, etc. 

Harvest food like the pilgrims

seasonal changes in the garden, getting the garden ready for winter,

Planting daffodils (December 2014) 

Plant lettuce, sugar snap peas

Daffodil Watch!

 

 

 
Harvest lettuces.  Can you identify the vegetable by taste game! 

Harvest sugar snap peas

Stagger planting sunflowers for all summer blooming! 

K - integration

Apples, pumpkins

5 senses

Apples, pumpkins

Pumpkinology

January - Bake pumpkin recipe to show Kindergarten another way to eat pumpkin

Bees - helpers in the garden!  Bees - helpers in the garden!    

1

(half hour per week)

Plant lettuce, scatter planting technique

Plant parts 

Enjoy picking mint, flowers and lamb's ear

Fill the bird baths

Taste-testing NC apple varieties

Weeding, small tool use and safety

math integration - plantzilla,

Harvest lettuce, radishes 

fine motor skills - lettuce hair cut with scissors, picking lamb's ear 

2nd lettuce harvest, glean from mint, etc. - very local food

2nd plantzilla,

seasonal changes in the garden, getting the garden ready for winter, picking lamb's ear

 

Plant lettuce, sugar snap peas!

seed spacing, scatter planting

 

 

Harvest lettuce

Small tool use and safety 

Harvest sugar snap peas

Stagger planting sunflowers for all summer blooming! 

 

1st grade integration Plant parts Plantzilla - estimating and measuring Plantzilla - estimating and measuring  Plant parts    

2

(half hour per week)

 

Enjoy the last of the summer harvest

Plant lettuce, greens, scatter-planting technique, 

enjoy picking flowers and lamb's ear, enjoy learning about mint

Taste-test NC apple varieties

 

Introduction to soil and worms. 

Review small tool safety.

Weed Wars!

Harvest lettuces and other salad greens. 

2nd lettuce and greens harvest, getting the garden ready for winter, science integration - vertebrates vs. invertebrates

Vertebrate - turkey! 

Soil and compost (December 2014)

2nd grade practices caring for cabbages and learns about vegetables such as kale and collards that are closely related. 

Skills - fine motor skills - small tool use

Asparagus Harvest (April-May)  

Care for strawberries.

Harvest peas and greens.   
2nd grade integration

Integration - Observe plant traits and life cycle

Integration - Observe plant traits and life cycle

Soil and compost (December 2014) 

January - organic gardening, healthy foods, being green, my plate

March - Revisit organic gardening, healthy foods, being green, my plate in class  Stone Soup   

3

(half hour per week)

Enjoy the last of the summer harvest.

Plant lettuce and collards. 

Enjoy picking mint, peppers, flowers and lamb's ear.

Taste-test NC apple varieties

Skills - Fine motor skills - seed spacing

Learn to be mature and okay with bugs. 

 

Harvest lettuces and greens. 

 

 

2nd lettuce harvest, harvest collards and Mrs. D will cook for your!  gross motor skills - large tool use and safety

preparing garden for winter, poetry, botany - seeds, pollination

 

Preparing soil for planting.

Plant cabbage, carrots, collards

3rd Grade Bonnie National Cabbage Contest

Skills - gross motor skills - large tool use and safety

Care for cabbages.

Learn about watering, adding compost and weeding your cabbage.  

Skills - fine motor skills - small tool use

Annual vs. perennial plants

Focus on perennials and  pollinators

 

3rd grade integration Integration - Garden as habitat

Integration - 

Botany on Your Plate 

Integration - 

Botany on Your Plate

 January  - Rainforest - 6th grade will help with research 

     

4

(half hour per week)

September -enjoy the last of the summer harvest

Plant greens and lettuce in group plot for a shared harvest.

fine motor skills - seed spacing, scatter planting

Taste-testing apple varieties


Lettuce and greens harvest, 

gross motor skills - large tool use and safety review

annuals vs. perennials

Gathering tree seeds for spring planting

energy stored in seeds and plants - science integration

Compost as energy storage of plant energy - science integration 

 

Scatter-planting various greens as a class, sugar snap peas, onion sets

 

 

Integration - energy cycling through plants, preparing soil with compost 

gross motor skills - large tool use and safety review

preparing soil, fine motor skills - seed spacing, scatter planting

annuals vs. perennials

annual flowers including zinnias and marigolds

tomatoes, peppers, squash, watermelon, etc. - mature in summer

4th grade integration SS integration - typical NC fall crops Energy stored in seeds and plants - science integration

Compost as energy storage of plant energy - science integration 

 

Compost Corner     

5

(half hour per week)

 

Enjoy last of summer harvest of peppers, basil, mint and watermelon

Plant lettuce and fall vegetable seeds of choice

Taste-test NC apple varieties 

Lettuce and greens harvest

gross motor skills - large tool use and safety review

 

 
5th grade - transplanting irises and other flowers  

Fertilizing with compost,

soil pH, soil 

Measure iris growth. 

Three sisters corn, field peas and squash  

Measure iris growth. 
5th grade integration  
    soil pH, soil, minerals in the soil SS - Three sisters Native American planting technique  

6

 

Large tool use and safety review

Enjoy the last of the summer harvest

preparing soil, fine motor skills - seed spacing

Plant various greens, fall vegetable free choice

Taste-test NC apple varieties

 harvest mint for tea-making

prepare a dish at home,  class salad day

Arugula challenge!

Salad Day (October)

Students prepare a dish using their vegetables at home.  Mrs. D brings demos. 

2nd lettuce and greens harvest 

February - Plant sugar snap peas. Growing greenhouse vegetables

annuals vs. perennials review

various greens, early spring vegetable free choice,  class salad day

Tom Thumb and Sweet Valentine butterhead lettuce!

Growing greenhouse vegetables,  use seedlings to plant, share and to sell for service learning,

tomatoes, peppers, squash, watermelon, etc. mature in summer

Salad Day (April)  

Integration - Service learning - animal advocacy,

science ecology themes

biodiversity

NEW Spring 2014: Can you identify the vegetable by taste game! 

 Extras
Planting blueberry bushes (Fall 2010) Taste-testing apple varieties (Fall)

Picking flowers, lamb's ear and mint from the wildlife garden (Fall), fill the bird baths (Fall-Winter) 

Taste-testing apple varieties (Fall)

Weed Wars (always)

Making tea with mint (Fall)


Taste-testing apple varieties (Fall)

Scattering wildflower seeds (November) 

(Always)

5th grade - transplanting irises (Fall 2013)


Plant strawberries (Spring 2012)

strawberries as perennial plants

NEW Spring 2014: Stagger planting sunflowers for all summer blooming!

NEW Spring 2014 Tom Thumb and Sweet Valentine butterhead lettuce!

Pepper plants

Asparagus Harvest (April-May)

 NEW Spring 2014: Stagger planting sunflowers for all summer blooming!

 

 

 

 

 

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