My students need composting equipment for hands-on science lessons in our community garden where we are planting vegetables to dontate to the local soup kitchen.
Identify a community need and look for ways to meet that need. My students know that local families have been challenged by a high unemployment rate and increasing grocery prices. Learning how to compost in the garden will provide them with a valuable skill that is also good for the environment.
My students are in the gifted program in a school that is located in a low socio-economic area which has experienced a high unemployment rate in recent years.
They have expressed the desire to make a difference in their community by growing fresh food to donate to our local soup kitchen which feeds hundreds each week.
My Project
The students are totally engaged in projects that involve gardening. The composting project will be an extension of the gardening project that will provide opportunities for learning hands-on science and skills that they can take with them to the future. They will appreciate how the practice of composting will benefit both the garden and the environment by reducing the amount of garbage we put in landfills. Students will learn about decomposers in the environment and how they transform everyday trash and food scraps into a safe and valuable product that can be used to grow food.
Students thrive on the experience to learn by doing.
Having the opportunity to work outdoors in the garden, to work collaboratively on a project that will benefit someone in need and to learn science concepts in the process will change attitudes and help students to develop their work ethic and appreciate what they have. This project will help to mold them into valuable members of their community who learn they can make a difference.
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