Grow School Greens

• Introduction
• Learners
• Standards
• Process
• Resources


• Student Page

Standards

Learning Area: Science: Life and Living

Lesson Topic: Learn to plant and grow your own vegetables.

Lesson Outcomes:

Content:

• Investigate and compare different vegetables and how they grow best;
• Demonstrate understanding that living things, such as plants, need constant care to survive;
• Demonstrate understanding that elements such as pests and diseases can affect a garden and ways to prevent this;
• Determine the positives and negatives of building a garden large enough to provide vegetables for  the school canteen.

Process:

• Create and adhere to a timeline;
• Demostrate responsibility within role;
• All elements of task completed;
• Research completed through visiting all provided links;
• Graphic organisers completed correctly;
• Create own graphic organisers;
• Enhance PowerPoint skills through on line tutorial and create a presentation;
• Use of ICT to create Display Booklet.

Product:

• Vegetable Garden;
• PowerPoint presentation;
• Display Book.

1. Students use language to understand, develop and communicate ideas and information and interact with others.

3.  Students recognise when and what information is needed, locate and obtain it from a range of sources and evaluate, use and share it with others.

5. Students describe and reason about patterns, structures and relationships in order to understand, interpret, justify and make patterns.

6. Students visualise consequences, think laterally, recognise opportunity and potential and are prepared to test options.

7. Students understand and appreciate the physical, biological and technological world and have the knowledge and skills and values to make decisions in relation to it.

12. Students are self-motivated and confident in their approach to learning and are able to work individually and collaboratively  

Learning Area Outcome/s (LAOs)

Arts

• Arts Ideas - Students generate arts works that communicate ideas.

English

• Writing - Students write for a range of purposes and in a range of forms using conventions appropriate to audience, purpose and context.
• Reading - Students read a wide range of texts with purpose, understanding and critical awareness.

Science

• Investigating - Students investigate to answer questions about the natural and technological world, using reflection and analysis to prepare a plan: to collect, process and interpret data: to communicate conclusions: and to evaluate their plan, procedures and findings.
• Life and Living - Students understand their own biology and that of other living things, and recognize the interdependence of life.

Technology and Enterprise

• Information - Students design, adapt, use and present information that is appropriate to achieving solutions to technology challenges.
• Technology Process - Students apply a technology process to create or modify products, processes, systems, services or environments to meet human needs and realise opportunities.

Aspect/s & Level/s:

Arts

AI 3 - Explores and uses ideas, experiences and observations to make arts works within the structure of given tasks, a limited range of choices and a clear sense of purpose.

English

W3 - Combines ideas in logical sequence to write a small range of text types; recognises the needs of particular audiences and purposes for writing; demonstrates control over many of the conventions of language; experiments with other conventions; and uses strategies for planning, reviewing and proofreading.

R 3.4 - Integrates a variety of strategies for interpreting texts and uses some strategies for identifying resources and finding information in texts.