This year, I want to ensure that all of my students needs are met.
I currently teach 26 amazing 3rd-grade students in a low-income/ high poverty school who will one day be the leaders in our community.
These students are faced with many different challenges, which can alter their future. Its very difficult to do your best academically when all you can think about is how hungry you are. I want to go beyond just academics. It's imperative that I make sure they are taught how to grow food for themselves. I would love for my students to compost and keep a garden so they understand how to grow nutritious food that they do not need money for. These students are the best that I have and I want to help them be the best that they can be and prepare them for their future.
My Project
I want to teach my students how to grow and maintain a garden using compost to grow stronger and more nutritious food. During the growing and composting process I will have my students journal weekly and drawer illustrations of what is happening in the garden and in the composter. I believe the students will enjoy not being wasteful by composting, as well as growing things that they can eat.This project will teach my students who mostly come from low income homes, how to grow food healthy food to sustain themselves. For this project my hope is that my students will learn how they can create healthy soil, which grows healthy food that is very easy to grow and maintain for themselves, and how the entire process benefits the earth.
The composters and plants will be useful tools to teach the students sustainability and encouraging them to eat more fruits and vegetables.
I also want to ensure that my students are environmentally conscious and composting can help with that. My students will be able to compost left over scraps from the cafeteria as well as from home. This will allow the students to work on not being wasteful and caring for our planet. I also plan on having the students journal weekly about what they observe in their gardens so they have ideas on how to improve.
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