School: ETU Beijing
Project Summary: Students will use the scientific process to hypothesize, investigate and eventually grow a school garden. In the process, students will learn about local flora and fauna; climate patterns and growing seasons in Beijing; function and anatomy of plants; and how to keep detailed observations as real botanists.
Driving Question: How do we observe and communicate the magic of plants at our school?
Public Product/ Performance: Turn an area of the school into a growing area to present to parents and the community.
Content Covered:
English: Journal Writing/ Documentation; story creation around gardens and vegetable growing; oral communication skills in exhibition
Design: Design of garden; design of digital stories on plants in the garden; design of exhibition
Science: Scientific Process; environmental science; botany; biology
Art: art Design of journals and creative nature art
Math: Currency Conversion (for sales of plants at exhibition); x/y plane and grid (for mapping out garden location); scale drawings
Technology: Video and Storyboarding/ Creation (for creating short digital stories of the usefulness of plants in the community).
Digital Stories to communicate how plants from the garden impact the community.
Project Duration: 6 weeks for main project (but cultivation and exhibition took place later in the year).
Contact Teacher (s): Joy Stuhr
Contact Email: joystuhr@gmail.com