In this lesson, students participate in making an Herbal salve to take home. Students will: learn about the different properties of plants grown in the garden or in the essential oils.
This resource provides the general framework that ESY garden teachers use to design their lessons. This framework divides student learning into five phases – Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate – and provides sample critical thinking questions teacher can ask for each phase.
In this seventh grade science lesson, students identify desirable traits in plants and take cuttings from parent plants to facilitate asexual propagation and produce offspring with identical DNA.
In this lesson, students will learn one of many ways to preserve the fall harvest. They will learn appropriate ways to harvest herbs from the garden, how to safely handle garden tools, and two simple methods to preserve herbs for use throughout the winter and spring.
When developing science lessons for the garden setting, we rely on four primary methods of integrating content into a typical garden class: opening circle demonstrations, rotating labs, small working groups, and hands-on experiences that take the entire class period.