Associated Program: Project Learning Garden

Tasting the Plant Parts

chopped vegetables on a cutting board

Students will harvest vegetables from the school garden (or another source) to make a salad that contains all the parts of a plant: leaves, stems, roots, flowers, and fruits, seeds or nuts.

Introducing Plant Parts We Eat and Sorting Plant Parts

Person inspecting roots of a plant

Students will be able to explain which vegetables come from which parts of a plant, based on the functions of different plant parts. Students will also understand that a variety of fruits and vegetables of different colors provides the widest nutritional value.

Deciding What Humans Need to Survive

Mentor showing students survival techniques.

Students will investigate the survival need of animals – including air, water, food and shelter – by building forts for themselves and determining what else they would need to live there, indefinitely. Students will extrapolate from this activity to identify the basic survival needs of any animal, and use that information to improve the garden … Read more

Exploring How Animals Survive in our Garden

2 ladybugs sitting on a leaf

Students will observe the garden or schoolyard and dig in the soil to look for evidence of animals that live there; investigate the specific survival needs of those particular animals; and determine whether they are all met in the garden.