Grades:
3
4
5
In planning their act of philanthropy, students will identify types of gardens and discuss what is practical for the garden they are planning to build.
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Unit: Building a Mini-Park and Bird Sanctuary
Grades:
3
4
5
Students will analyze how a garden helps others in ways that are not always thought of when thinking of a garden. They will see that a garden is to be shared.
Grades:
3
4
5
This experiential lesson will allow the students to get the garden in the ground and see the results of their work.
Grades:
3
4
5
Through the use of a trade book, students see that a garden is a place where an individual can go for inner peace and solitude. They will see that a garden is to be shared with other people and wildlife, such as butterflies and birds....
Unit: Watch Me Grow
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Grades:
K
1
2
The students respond to a story in which a child inspires her neighborhood to improve a vacant lot. The students recognize that they can have a positive impact on others. The class decides on a philanthropic project related to the literature that will benefit the school or larger community.
Unit: Growing an Environmental Steward
Grades:
9
10
11
12
The purpose of this lesson is for the learners to experience putting to use, in their school and/or community, what they have learned about landscape design and gardening.
Unit: Phil's Garden of Good
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Grades:
K
1
2
The teacher and a volunteer master gardener teach the students about plant care and the steps and responsibilities of the unit plan.
Unit: Saving the Monarch
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Grades:
K
1
2
This lesson will culminate with the learners raising money in order to buy milkweed plants or seeds to plant in a Monarch Butterfly garden. They will appreciate that caring for the environment and the plants and animals is good stewardship of the earth and the civic responsibility of everyone....
Unit: The Joy of a Garden (3rd Grade)
Grades:
3
4
5
Through literature, students see a garden as a place where an individual can go for inner peace and solitude. They show environmental responsibility by sharing a garden within a community.
Unit: Dreaming of Gardens (5th Grade)
Grades:
3
4
5
Students will listen to two stories, and compare and contrast the activities of the main characters. As a final piece, students reflect by writing an answer to some essential questions: What does it mean to be a philanthropist? What does it mean to be an environmentalist? What does...