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Garden Club: Sweet potato makin’, Rock-paintin’, & egg-droppin’
Garden Club: Sweet potato makin’, Rock-paintin’, & egg-droppin’

Students paint rocks for the garden, practice knife skills by making sauteed sweet potatoes, and do an egg race.

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Garden ClubTeresa WoodardJanuary 23, 2020
Garden Lessons: Food Webs Project: Part III (5th Grade)
Garden Lessons: Food Webs Project: Part III (5th Grade)

Students work on part 3 of their food web project by creating a poster of the food web game organisms and learning about decomposers, producers, and consumers.

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Garden LessonsTeresa WoodardJanuary 22, 2020
Garden Lessons: Hydroponics- Part I (6th Grade)
Garden Lessons: Hydroponics- Part I (6th Grade)

6th graders start their hydroponics project by “adopting” a seed and examining & charting important information about their seeds.

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Garden LessonsTeresa WoodardJanuary 20, 2020
Garden Lessons: Plant Parts- Part 1 (3rd Grade)
Garden Lessons: Plant Parts- Part 1 (3rd Grade)

3rd graders do a pre-test and fun activities for their Parts of the Plant unit.

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Garden LessonsTeresa WoodardJanuary 20, 2020
Garden Lessons: Making Salad (First Grade)
Garden Lessons: Making Salad (First Grade)

1st graders try a salad, made with fresh produce from the garden, plant lettuce seeds, and recall what living things need to live.

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Garden LessonsTeresa WoodardJanuary 20, 2020
Garden Lessons: Making Salad (Kindergarten)
Garden Lessons: Making Salad (Kindergarten)

Kindergarteners try a health, simple snack and categorize living and non-living things.

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Garden LessonsTeresa WoodardJanuary 20, 2020
Garden Club: Welcome Back!
Garden Club: Welcome Back!

Students have a blast at their first Garden Club after winter break watering the High Tunnel, harvesting cabbage, and doing group-bonding activities.

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Garden ClubTeresa WoodardJanuary 17, 2020
Garden Lessons: Charting (& Trying!) in the Garden (2nd Grade)
Garden Lessons: Charting (& Trying!) in the Garden (2nd Grade)

2nd graders use plants in the garden to make a bar graph.

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Garden LessonsTeresa WoodardJanuary 13, 2020
Garden Club: Bulbs & pine cone bird feeders
Garden Club: Bulbs & pine cone bird feeders

Students make pinecone birdfeeders and pot up flower bulbs to take home

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Garden ClubTeresa WoodardDecember 19, 2019
Garden Club: Mushroom BLT's
Garden Club: Mushroom BLT's

Garden Club invites guest speaker Te’Lario from Tiger Mushroom Farms to make mushroom BLT’s with them!

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Garden ClubTeresa WoodardDecember 5, 2019
Garden Lessons: Food Quilts (1st & 2nd Grade)
Garden Lessons: Food Quilts (1st & 2nd Grade)

There are so many different things we can grow and try in the garden! 1st and 2nd grade students make a “food quilt” of all the different foods they want to try and all the foods they’ve tried and want to grow in the garden!

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Garden LessonsTeresa WoodardDecember 2, 2019
Garden Lessons: Subtraction in the Garden (3rd Grade)
Garden Lessons: Subtraction in the Garden (3rd Grade)

3rd graders make & practice garden-inspired subtraction problems

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Garden LessonsTeresa WoodardDecember 2, 2019
Garden Club: Radishes
Garden Club: Radishes

Garden Club students do a “taste test” with different types of radishes, plant radish seeds in the garden, and plant some in a pot to take home.

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Garden ClubTeresa WoodardNovember 21, 2019
Garden Club: Sweet Potato Soup
Garden Club: Sweet Potato Soup

Garden Club students prepare a Curried Sweet Potato Soup!

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Garden ClubTeresa WoodardNovember 14, 2019
Garden Lessons: Intro to Food Webs, Part I & II (5th Grade)
Garden Lessons: Intro to Food Webs, Part I & II (5th Grade)

Students begin a 3-part project on how everything in the garden is connected through food chains.

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Garden LessonsTeresa WoodardNovember 11, 2019
Garden Lessons: Soil Examinations (6th Grade)
Garden Lessons: Soil Examinations (6th Grade)

6th graders examine difference types of soil we can find in the garden and conduct an experiment with radish seeds.

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Garden LessonsTeresa WoodardNovember 11, 2019
Garden Lessons: Planting Rocks, Seeds, and Mulch (Pre-K & Kindergarten)
Garden Lessons: Planting Rocks, Seeds, and Mulch (Pre-K & Kindergarten)

Pre-K and Kindergarteners do an experiment planting seeds, rocks, and mulch to see what will grow.

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Garden LessonsTeresa WoodardNovember 11, 2019
Garden Lessons: The Life Cycle of a Cabbage Worm (3rd Grade)
Garden Lessons: The Life Cycle of a Cabbage Worm (3rd Grade)

3rd graders learn about the life cycle of a cabbage worm and why we don’t want them in our garden in this fun, hands-on lesson!

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Garden LessonsTeresa WoodardNovember 4, 2019
Garden Lessons: Cabbage Worms in the Garden (2nd Grade)
Garden Lessons: Cabbage Worms in the Garden (2nd Grade)

We have Cabbage Worms in our high tunnel right now! 2nd grade students learn how such a little worm can make a HUGE impact in this hands-on lesson.

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Garden LessonsTeresa WoodardNovember 4, 2019
Garden Club: Pumpkins & Cabbage Worms
Garden Club: Pumpkins & Cabbage Worms

Garden Club students carve pumpkins, roast marshmallows, and pick cabbage worms on the last Garden Club of October.

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Garden ClubTeresa WoodardOctober 31, 2019
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