Monthly Archives: April 2010

Biology of the Flower

By Sasha Harris-Lovett | Published: April 27, 2010
Springtime is a great time to study botany in the garden, because we have a large and diverse group of flowering plants in full bloom.  The seventh grade curriculum includes the anatomy and reproduction of flowering plants, and the garden is a perfect place to explore the topic. Seventh grade ears immediately tune in when [...]
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A Simple Pasta Dough

By Edible Schoolyard | Published: April 19, 2010
We now have 7th graders in the kitchen for a six-lesson rotation that focuses on life skills, a wonderful idea 7th grade humanities chair Julie Searle asked us to develop. Their first week back, the students learned to make a miso dressing and served it with a crudité platter. This week, they made fresh pasta [...]
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Bees

By Edible Schoolyard | Published: April 8, 2010
In seventh grade the science curriculum focuses on life sciences, and more specifically on reproduction, genetics, and heredity. The spring garden is the perfect lab to explore these concepts. One of our favorite lessons to use is one completely concentrating on bees. We start the class with some fact about bees. We explain that there [...]
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