IDEA Lab

1st Grade

How can gardeners grow plants that make food taste good?

In this project, students studied plants, seeds, botany, and botanists all with the goal of eventually being able to taste delicious herbs grown right at school. Using our indoor vertical garden students planted and grew five different herbs.

Planting Seeds

Students planted seeds from five herbs in special wool growing cubes.

Separating Seedlings

Once the seeds germinated students separated the different wool growing cubes.

Moving Seedlings Into the Garden

Students gently inserted the seedlings into the pockets of the indoor garden.

Labeling the Herbs

Once the garden was full students labeled the different herbs: chives, cilantro, parsley, basil, and dill.

Growing!

The students were excited to see the plants grow larger week by week.

Picking Herbs

Students carefully picked herbs both to taste and to take home.

Tasting the Herbs

Students tasted each herb outside and decided which tastes they liked and didn't like.

Taking Herbs Home

The herbs kept growing, and the Friday before Thanksgiving students took a bag of herbs home.

Agricultural Scientist George Washington Carver

Students read books and watched videos to learn about agricultural scientist George Washington Carver. We recorded what we learned on a chart in the IDEA Lab.