In the fall, students will be introduced to basic nutrition and gardening concepts. Students will make the connection between gardening and health through seasonal gardening activities, basic nutrition guidelines, and lessons on life cycles and composting.
Healthy Bodies, Healthy Gardens
Students will discuss what nutrition is and brainstorm ways to keep bodies and gardens healthy. Students will tour the garden to identify what makes a garden healthy.
Comprehensive Health: Physical & Personal Wellness in Health
GR.1-S.2-GLE.1
GR.2-S.2-GLE.1
GR.3-S.2-GLE.1
GR.4-S.2-GLE.1
GR.5-S.2-GLE.1
GR.6-S.2-GLE.1 & GLE.4
Be Healthy!
Students will compare healthy and non-healthy behaviors and activities through brainstorming. Students will make begin to make connections between eating healthy and growing healthy foods by looking at the food groups outlined in USDA’s MyPlate.
Comprehensive Health: Physical & Personal Wellness
GR.K-S.2-GLE.1
GR.1-S.2-GLE.1
GR.2-S.2-GLE.1
GR.3-S.2-GLE.1
GR.4-S.2-GLE1
GR.5-S.2-GLE.1
GR.6-S.2-GLE.1 & GLE.4
Science: Life Science
GR.5-S.2-GLE.2
Adapt a Seed
Students will investigate different types of seeds and how they travel. Students will then use their imagination and team building skills to invent their own seeds.
Science: Life Science
GR.1-S.2-GLE.2
GR.2-S.2-GLE.1 & GLE.2
GR.4-S.2-GLE.1 & GLE.3
GR.5-S.2-GLE.1
Let’s Make Compost
Students will experience the process of decomposition and the nutrient cycle by building a compost pile.
Science: Life Science
GR.2-S.2-GLE.1
GR.6-S.2-GLE.2
Science: Earth Science
GR.1-S.3-GLE.1
GR.3-S.3-GLE.1
GR.6-S.3-GLE.3
Seed Collecting
Students will discuss how a healthy plant will make seeds and that seeds help plants continue the life cycle. Students will then collect seeds, describe seeds and identify seeds to package up for spring planting.
Science: Life Science
GR.2-S.2-GLE.1 & GLE.2
GR.3-S.2-GLE.1
GR.4-S.2-GLE.1 & GLE.3
GR.5-S.2-GLE.1
The Rotten Truth
Students will investigate the process of decomposition by conducting hands-on experiments with various food items. They will learn what happens to various items when they are thrown away.
Science: Life Science
GR.6-S.2-GLE.2
Science: Earth Science
GR.1-S.3-GLE.1
GR.3-S.3-GLE.1
GR.6-S.2-GLE.2
Worms are our Friends
Students will begin to explore garden friends and garden foes by starting a worm-composting bin.
Science: Life Science
GR.6-S.2-GLE.2
Science: Earth Science
GR.1-S.3-GLE.1
GR.3-S.3-GLE.1
GR.6-S.3-GLE.2
We’d like to thank Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation for their generous support of the Healthy Bodies, Healthy Gardens Curriculum.
