Module 35: Gardening for the Earth- Science 2 - Course Guide

Module Overview:

In this module, students will learn to design and plant a garden that encourages pollinators to visit, make compost, and apply an understanding of the needs of plants to care for a garden.

Module Materials:

  • Pencils
  • Crayons or colored pencils
  • Notebook
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Highlighter
  • Markers
  • Blank paper

Module Objectives:

Lesson # Lesson Title Objective(s)
1 Plant a Pollinator Garden
  1. Design and plant a garden that encourages pollinators to visit.
2 Composting
  1. Make compost.
3 Caring for Your Garden
  1. Apply understanding of the needs of plants to care for a garden.

Module Key Words:

Key Words
pollinator
garden
compost
decompose

Module Assignments:

Lesson # Lesson Title Page # Assignment Title
1 Plant a Pollinator Garden 6 Design a Pollinator Garden Assignment
2 Composting 6 Creating Compost Assignment
3 Caring for Your Garden 6 Garden Care Plan Assignment

Learning Coach Notes:

Lesson # Lesson Title Notes
1 Plant a Pollinator Garden After completing this lesson, have your student explain what pollination is and how to create a pollinator garden. Ask them how a pollinator garden can help our environment.
2 Composting After completing this lesson, ask your student to describe how compost is made and how it can help protect our environment.
3 Caring for Your Garden After completing this lesson, ask your student to explain how to care for a garden.

Module Guiding Questions:

When a student starts a lesson ask them questions to check for prior knowledge and understanding and to review concepts being taught. At the end of the lesson ask the questions again to see if their answer changes.

Lesson Title Question
Plant a Pollinator Garden
  1. What is a pollinator garden?
Composting
  1. How is compost made?
Caring for Your Garden
  1. How do you care for a garden?

Module Video Questions:

When a student watches a video take time to ask them questions about what they watched. Suggested questions for the videos in this module are listed here. Suggestion: Have the student watch the entire video first all the way through. Then have them watch the video a second time, as they watch it pause the video and ask the questions.

Lesson Title Video Question

Module Suggested Read Aloud Books:

Take time to read to your student or have them read aloud to you. Read a different book each day. While reading the book point out concepts being taught. You may purchase these books or find them at your local library. Suggested things to discuss while reading the book:

  • What is the main idea?
  • What are three things new you learned?
  • How does this book relate to what you are learning about?

# Book Author Lexile Level

Module Outing:

Take some time to apply what your student is learning to the real world. Suggested outings are below.

# Outing