Elementary School – Page 6 – Captain Planet Foundation

Designing Season-Extenders for the Garden

Students will design a way to keep plants warm in the garden during the cooler months.

Students will design a solar oven and use it to cook vegetables.

Students will learn about the life cycle of the tree and its rotting process after death.

Students will learn about the process of decomposition that happens at the end of the tree’s life cycle.

Students will learn about decomposers: Fungi, Bacteria, and Invertebrates.

Students will learn how to identify decomposers.

Students will determine how the shadows change through the day by making a shadow stick or using a sundial.

Students will identify similarities and differences among plants as they use all their senses to describe characteristics.

Students will use their school garden to chart and create sun maps.

Students will learn to recognize earth materials.