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 Thinking about starting a class garden with your class but don't know where to start? Our website offers many ideas to help start a school garden and teach students about gardening. We will walk you through the steps of creating a school garden while incorporating project-based learning into the unit. Included in this website, you will find ideas on how to introduce the gardening unit to students, start a school garden, and tons of creative lesson plans that bring technology into the classroom. Below is an inspiration map that we used to create our ideas for this website. Each lesson plan was based off this map of ideas. By looking at this map, you will see what our gardening project is all about!  After we created a concept map, we created a blog to help us stay in touch throughout the project. A blog could be created in the classroom in order to keep parents informed on the garden's progress. It is also a good place to generate ideas on how they want to go about the class garden. Here is an example of a blog to give you ideas. Sample team blog In order to start a big project such as a gardening project, it is imporant to make sure you allign your lessons with your states benchmarks. Below are the benchmarks that this project meets for the State of Michigan. If you are in another state, make sure you look at your own state benchmarks before you begin! For the purpose of this website, we touched on all different grade levels. Therefore, the standards are from various early elementary grade levels (1st-3rd grade). Click on this link to see the standards. Created By: Jeannie Saint Denis, Annie Yungfer, and Britiany Bowers If you have any questions please feel free to email us at gardenproj@gmail.com  |