***Please note that this listing is a digital download (8-page PDF) for you to print the pages you require at home or school*** These activities are a fun way to learn about composting, in the classroom. This compost resource features a foldable sequencing activity, sorting activity, and word search that will help your students understand how compost is made. Use as part of an Earth Day or Environment lesson, alongside creating compost at school/home, or for an eco/gardening club activity. What's included? 💚Foldable sequencing activity. Children color the stages of composting (the compost cycle), sequence the stages, cut out the template parts, glue, and fold. The template is included with and without a straight cutting edge so you can pick the one that best suits your learners. 💚Home/garden waste sort. Students sort 12 pictures into items that can be composted, and those that should be placed in the trash. Color and b/w version included. This activity could be laminated to use multiple times. 💚Word search. 12 compost-related words to find across, up, down, and diagonally. 💚US and A4 (UK) paper sizes/spelling This resource is not editable. It is for personal home or classroom use only (no commercial use). ⭐⭐⭐Save with bundles! ⭐⭐⭐ Layers of the soil, earthworm life cycle and how to compost: https://wonderattheworlded.etsy.com/listing/1740130663
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My 8 year old daughter Sydney loves technology. If I let her, she would sit on the couch and play her DS all summer long. It is my goal to get her off the couch and to expand her mind this summer. I decided that starting a nature club would get her outside away from the electronics. I searched my old standby "Pinterest" to get some free printables for our nature walk. You can see all of my nature club finds on my Pinterest page. We invited Sydney's best friend, Gavin, and his big sister, Eva, to join us. Nature hunts are not just for Earth Day. I grabbed some clipboards and pens and printed out one of these ABC Nature Walk free printables. Free Printable ABC Nature Walk from Classroom Freebies They searched throughout our neighborhood to find something in nature for each letter of the alphabet. They did a great job of almost finding each letter. I was even able to get my almost 3 year old involved in the fun. We did a second (simpler) nature scavenger hunt. This hunt did not require any writing. Since Lucas can't read yet, he had some help from his "assistant" Eva, I printed these free printables and taped them onto brown paper lunch bags. We headed down to the park to fill our bags. Free Printable Nature Scavenger Hunt from Five Little Chefs All three kids filled their bags. We spent about an hour completing both searches. Since Lucas is only a toddler, he lost interest faster than the bigger kids. He spent some time hanging out on the swings. Some of you may be asking, where was Ella (my 16 month old) during the nature walk? She sat happily in her wagon and cheered on the nature hunters. She also enjoyed a ride on the swings with my friend Eileen (Gavin and Eva's mom.) I consider the day a success since that was one full hour with no electronics! For our next meeting of the nature club, the kids decided they wanted to "take care of our earth." That is their words! They want to walk around our neighborhood and clean it up. Check back to see if we end up doing that!
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Today is the first day of Spring so I’d like to discuss school gardens. I always wanted to have a school garden, and I found the perfect place for it, but it never happened, mainly because I just didn’t have the time to add such an undertaking to my schedule of teaching more than five grade levels every year. So when I decided this year to volunteer at a local school, I jumped at the chance to work with the teacher who maintained the school garden there. (Links and info in this post updated on 4/3/21.) Source: The ESL Nexus There are so many benefits to having a school garden! For ELLs, especially those at lower levels of language proficiency, working in a school garden means they can participate just as much as other students because the tasks are hands-on and visual. And if you plant some crops that are used in the cultures of your ELLs, it shows that you value those cultures and gives those students and their families a chance to share their knowledge and make them feel a part of the school community. Read on to find out: a) why a school garden is a good thing, b) resources for creating and maintaining a school garden, and c) where you can obtain funding for your own school garden. Source: The ESL Nexus Benefits of School Gardens 1) Students learn where their food comes from – for students in cities who aren’t familiar with farming, this can be very illuminating. 2) Students interact with nature by spending time outdoors and seeing insects and worms in the soil and as the plants grow. 3) Students learn teamwork because they have to work cooperatively to make the garden a success and students who don’t normally work with each other can be grouped together to develop their social skills. 4) Students learn patience because once seeds or seedlings are planted, they have to wait for them to grow and students can’t force the plants to sprout faster than nature intended. 5) Students learn math and science concepts – they are so many tie-ins to curricula for students of all ages it’s impossible to list them all here but recording observations, formulating hypotheses, measuring units, learning about nutrition, graphing results and calculating percentages are a few of them. 6) Students can do writing activities such as writing poetry, writing a description of a plant, writing how-to pieces about creating the garden, writing personal narratives about their experience with the garden, comparing and contrasting two different vegetables, writing about what a vegetable or herb tastes like, creating a recipe book for the foods that were grown, creating timelines about the growing process, and writing letters about their school garden. 7) Students can develop research skills by searching for information about school gardens, by finding out which crops are best suited to their region of the country, and by reading about how particular vegetables and herbs are used in other cultures. 8) Students can learn about geography and other cultures by planting vegetables and herbs cultivated in other countries. 9) Students from different ethnic backgrounds can share their cultures when crops that are common in their cuisines are cultivated, and this can also help foster appreciation for people from those cultures. 10) Students can develop multimedia skills by creating videos, podcasts, photo exhibits, posters, and oral presentations about their school garden. 11) The student-parent (or guardian) connection can be deepened when the families of the students working in the garden are involved – if some families have gardening experience they can help create and maintain the garden, families from immigrant and refugee backgrounds can share their knowledge of gardening and grow “ethnic” foods in part of the garden, families can show how to cook various vegetables and use herbs, and families can be invited to a feast with the students after harvesting the food. Resources about School Gardens * U.S. Department of Agriculture: Information an all aspects, from planning through sustaining a school garden program. * National Agriculture in the Classroom: Lesson plans, resources, information about conferences, and more. * Slow Food USA: Research-based rationale for implementing a school garden. * KidsGardening: All about designing, starting, and maintaining a school garden. * Growing Minds: Resources for starting a school garden, related lesson plans based on the Common Core State Standards, and information on applying for a grant if you are working in their region. * Let's Move: A checklist for getting started with a school garden. * Western Growers Foundation Collective School Garden Network: Information on the benefits of school gardens, how to plan and fund a school garden, planting a school garden, teaching with a school garden, and harvesting and eating the produce from an edible school garden; also includes grant opportunities for schools in Arizona and California. * Good, Clean and Fair School Garden Curriculum, from Slow Food USA: Lessons for all elementary and secondary students that align with Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards. Funding Sources Application deadlines for grants from many organizations for funding a spring garden have passed but the following opportunities are still available: * Bonnie Plants 3rd Grade Cabbage Program: Apply by February 15th. * Captain Planet ecoSolution Grants: Two cycles: a) Apply between September 15th and January 15th; b) Apply between March 15th and July 15th. * Project Learning Tree Green Works Grants: No information about applications for 2021 but the website has helpful info about gardening. * Wild Ones Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education Grant: Program is currently suspended but if it resumes, applications will be available in July with a deadline of October 15, 2021 at midnight. The resources below include lists of the organizations, some of which are mentioned above, as well as many more whose deadlines have already passed. Some of the organizations are included in more than one of these sources listed below: * From Community Groundworks: Links to 18 grant opportunities plus links to resources about implementing school gardens. * From KidsGardening: Links to 20 grants that fund school gardens. Also offers a newsletter with free gardening activities for students. Having worked as an agricultural extension agent in the Peace Corps, I know well the joys of planting something and watching it grow. And although a school garden involves a lot of initial work, the benefits it brings to ELLs and all students is, as Helen Mirren affirms, certainly worth it.
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