Planning the Garden
- Discipline / domaine
- Langue vivante
- Objectif
- Planning the pollinator garden, size, shape and features
- Durée
- 185 minutes (5 phases)
- Matériel
- short wooden pegs and string for outlining the garden
1. Discovery of the garden space and planning the pollinator garden
Vocabulary: garden, trees, plants, hedge, flowers, bushes, shrub, plant, grow, soil, water, sunlight, shade.
Recycled vocabulary: shapes, rectangle, square, oval….
Prior knowledge: cardinal points, surprise, sunset, day, night.
Outdoor Learning-Visiting the garden space
The teacher explains to the students that they are going to decide on the areas of the garden that will be planted for the pollinator garden. Together with the teacher the students explore the space and take into consideration the exposure to the sun, slope of the terrain, access to a water source, existing trees and shade.
Group Discussion: The teacher will explain to the students that the garden will be used to study the plants and pollinators. Illicit from the students how they can plan the garden to make it accessible for everyone, (possible responses garden paths and walkways).
The students are encouraged to think about the layout of the garden…… should it take on a natural or more formal shape, rectangle, square, oval. Should the garden be one big space or divided up into smaller areas?
Activity: Once a decision has been reached the students work together dividing the garden space into sections using short wooden posts and string.
2. Phase 2
Seance 2
Class Activity-Using templates of the garden space to design a pollinator garden, incorporating fixed structures, access for abled bodied and non abled bodied students, work stations/observation points.
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3. Phase 3
Seance 3
Class Activity-Individual work placing the listed plants within the garden templates taking into consideration plant height and exposition to the sun.
4. Phase 4
Seance4
Outdoor Learning- Collective activity- the students are given a colour coded puzzle of the garden. Each sector of the pollinator garden is colour coded. Working together the students need to complte the puzzle. Once completed they partake in a treasure hunt to find, within the garden space, their seedbombs of a specific colour.
5. Phase 5
Tache Finale
Once each group collected their seed bombs they throw the bombs in their colour coordinated area.