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Santa Clara Garden Review

Santa Clara Day School Schoolyard Habitat Community Garden Project

Teachers:

Try this activity with small groups having one student (or teacher in the lower grades) be a reader, one a recorder, and another be the presenter. Explain what each job means.

See if our gardeners have learned what they need to by allowing the group brainstorming to take place before you review the terms being used. Then as a follow-up, have the presenter speak for the group and talk about what his or her group determined.

You may want to add to or delete words from the vocabulary list. It may also be necessary to divide the tasks into two sessions.

Also see the model for garden integration to multidisciplinary classroom.

Group Review

Fill out the following form for your group. Be sure to write down all your group's thoughts - use more pages if you need to.

Names:

Reader:

Recorder:

Presenter:

  1. Talk about each of the following words. Put a check next to the words your group knows the meaning of.
    • compost
    • mulch
    • tomato horn worms
    • weeds
    • vegetables
    • cabbage loopers
    • fruit
    • seeds
    • grasshoppers
    • flowers
    • trees
    • squash bugs
    • shrubs
    • insects
    • butterflies
    • ants
    • fertilizer
    • harvest
  2. Think of the vegetables we didn't plant this year. List the vegetables you would like to plant in next year's garden.
  3. Think of the fruit we didn't plant this year. List the fruit you would like to plant in next year's garden.
  4. List any other things you would like to do or have next year in our garden.
  5. Do you know of anything we should plant now, in the Fall? If so what?
  6. What were some of your favorite things about the garden?
  7. Have your presenter share your group's ideas with the class. Give your worksheets to your teacher.

Compiled by Robin Rodar and Rose Naranjo.