Learning About Healthy Food and How Plants Grow Through Science!
My students need a raised vegetable bed(4x8), gardening dirt & compost, vegetable fertilizers, and gardening essentials such as a rain water barrel for watering the garden.
Our kindergarten class has been impacted by Hurricane Harvey.
I teach kindergarten in Port Arthur, TX.
Before Hurricane Harvey hit our area, I had the opportunity to meet some of my sweet students, but because of the damage caused by flood water, many students have experienced loss of items and home. We are a Title I school, and many of our students are from low-income households.
Please, help us have a successful school year full of learning in a comfortable and clean environment.
Thank you!
My Project
I teach in a Title I low-income and high-poverty school district. My students are faced with several challenges both in and out of the classroom. Through science, my class will be introduced to and learn about life cycles, what plants need to live and grow, and how they can grow their own healthy food at home.
Many of my students, who live in apartments, do not get the opportunity to see vegetables grow or have access each day to vegetables.
My students will learn the life cycle of plants (seed, sprout, plant, flower, vegetable), what a plant needs to live and grow (food, water, air, dirt), where their food comes from (farm or garden), and how they can grow their own food at home.
Through planting our own raised bed vegetable garden, students will be able to watch the life cycle in real time and real life as we plant small seedlings and watch the plants grow and fruit. Students will learn about what a plant needs to live and grow and the parts of a plant and how providing things such as dirt, compost, and fertilizer plants can thrive.
We want the students to acquire a love of the garden and growing food. As the plants grow students will be able to taste the products of their hard work such as tomatoes, cucumbers, spinach, basil, and peppers!!!
Students will also be able to plant a tomato seed in class using the plastic cups and dirt providing through this project! They will be able to watch it grow each day into their very own plant they can take home!
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