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Objective 2.5: Structures for Environmental Learning

Action 1

Teacher(s): Ms. Demas, Ms. Riorda

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Grade: Pre-K - 8th

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Date: Every school year

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Description: Ms. Demas, the Food for Life resource teacher, uses the garden and her kitchen classroom to teach about growing our own food and eating locally. In her afternoon garden club, students decide which plants they would like to grow after learning about Baltimore's growing seasons and then students sow the seeds, water and weed the beds, and harvest the food grown and then cook it and eat it! Ms. Riorda, the Nature Exploration resource teacher, uses the garden as a discovery classroom space for students. In the garden, the students lead the discoveries and engage each other in making observations about characteristics of plants, in discovering where seeds and cotton come from, witnessing pollination in action, and to actively understand how food chains and life cycles work in nature. After school, students and parents wander down the main path of the garden to investigate all the different ecosystems and to smell and taste the different herbs that grow there. 

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Students planting the garden

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Students holding the fruits of our harvest

Students harvesting from the garden

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Students learning about food chains in the garden

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Students illustrating and writing about living things found in the garden

Students completing scavenger hunt in the garden

Action 2

Action 2

Teacher(s): Ms. Riorda and Ms. Poole

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Grade: 5-8

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Date: 2/27/20

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Description: Every year at the end of winter, the garden needs a good cleanup to prepare for a spring planting. The B’More Green club members spent an afternoon picking up bricks, repositioning fences, picking up litter and re-locating stepping stones.  Later in March, they will help to spread mulch and add organic material to the beds.

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Students from the B’More Green club cleaning up the garden in anticipation of spring planting.

Action 3

Action 3

Teacher(s): Ms. Riorda and Ms. Poole

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Grade: 5-8

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Date: 3/26/2020

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Description: Groups of students will design and create glass sculptures out of donated and recycled glassware items. Sculptures will be displayed in our school gardens!

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Our collection of donated glassware

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Sample of garden sculpture

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Email from B'More Green advisors asking for donations

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