A simple activity to make seed balls, also known as seed bombs, to reclaim barren areas of soil or garden!
The clay vessels that you create for your seeds and compost offer a fun way to plant your seeds while providing protection for the exposed seeds. The compost in your balls act as a source of nutrients. The seeds remain inside the seed balls until rains soak the clay and stimulate the seeds.
Gardens are great places for inquiry. Check out this infographic poster for evidence based ways that gardens transform wonder into knowledge through inquiry.
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Questions naturally sprout
Students have natural curiosity about nature and may already have questions about how plants grow, what the parts do and where plants come from. Working hands-on in the garden has a way of inspiring more questions!
A safe place for risk
Using plants for investigation creates safety for failure or setbacks. We can grow more plants or sprout more seeds. We can take risks and experiment using questions as our guide!
Plants change over time
Plants are ideal subjects for experimentation. Students can witness an entire lifecycle in a season. They can isolate simple plant growth variables, such as light, moisture or nutrients and see results quickly.
Student’s natural curiosity
A student’s natural fascination with the natural world can lead to greater engagement with learning, making it easier to scaffold students into active, independent learners.
Check out the simple, practical dishes that you can prepare in the classroom with your students. What are you waiting for? Let’s get cooking!
We asked our Little Green Thumbs teachers for their tried and tested garden-inspired recipes and they sent us their favourites.
After a growing season with your students, there is no better way to enjoy the harvest than to prepare a meal or snack together with your fresh garden vegetables. Many students have already heard the saying ‘you are what you eat’, and it’s pretty true!
Fueling up on healthy nutritious snacks gives us the energy, strength and drive to complete challenging tasks and learning. Cooking with students is a fantastic way to build kitchen confidence and positive relationships with healthy foods.
3.0 Example of curricular outcome
In this activity, students will learn about food webs, discovering the many ways that plants and animals of a forest ecosystem are connected. This hands-on activity helps students in grades 3-5 put their new knowledge about food chains and food webs into practice. It also explores interdependent relationships in ecosystems.
Background: A forest is a complex living system. While its appearance is often dominated by trees, a healthy forest is composed of many different animals and plants that interact with and depend on each other.
A food chain is a simplified way of showing energy relationships between plants and animals in an ecosystem. For example, a food chain of sun > plant seed > mouse > owl shows that a plant seed that grows from the sun’s energy is eaten by a mouse, which in turn is eaten by an owl. However, in reality it is rare for an animal to eat only one type of food. A food web represents the interaction of many food chains in an ecosystem.
What can you grow from kitchen scraps? Encourage kids to brainstorm and try some of their suggestions!
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