In this engaging unit, students will design and plant a square-foot garden that will be their central tool.Through the growing season, they will explore nutrition content in their everyday lives and see how it relates to what they are growing.
Students play the Up, Down, and All-Around game in the outdoor space describing the relative positions of a chosen object or organism. Back in the classroom, students open a sugar snap pea, count the number of peas in the pod, and describe the relative position of the peas. Using the three-dimensional Peas in a Pod paper cut-out model, students practice counting and describing the positions of the peas in the peapod. Students then explore the motion of objects using a crafted paper model whirly bird representing a maple seed pod.Finally, studentscreate and enact a skit with partners to show and describe the relative positions of humans (themselves) and go back outdoors to move through a sidewalk chalk obstacle course to show their knowledge of various motions.