Rotary Educational Greenhouse Fall 2019

 

Each week students explored plant parts and function with projects and experiments that are designed to build on basic knowledge through experiential learning. The students were able to pull apart a whole plant (zinnias) to identify parts, used their senses to explore; tasting, smelling and feeling basil, rosemary, stevia and a variety of other plants. They set up experiments with plant parts (stems) to demonstrate function(i.e. celery in colored water etc.), used the plant parts (fruit-apples) to make a tasty treat by pressing cider, collected and counted seeds and grew and cared for their own plant that they started from seeds(mung beans). The fall program culminated with planting fall bulbs of garlic and tulips and daffodils This way the students can look forward to seeing their fall plantings growing when they return in the spring!

 

Students documented their activities and findings in their own personalized notebooks, which are designed to specifically correlate and build upon each week's activities. In the spring they will use their plant knowledge to help plan and plant, returning to the greenhouse in March to start and care for seedlings, which will be used to plant their school's gardens in May.