Curriculum should be focused on begining experiences for young students. They will start to engage in the garden classroom for the first time. Class will be focused on introduction to the ecosystem. Students will identify all the parts of the garden (compost bins, garden beds, secret hiding spots, and garden tools). They will understand how all living things, including people, work and relate to the place they live in. Students will practice critical values of the garden, which include care for self, care for others, and care for the land. Activities such as taste tests may be used while working with students on how to discuss and experience new foods.

Next Generation Science Standards for Kindergarten: Students must develop an understanding of what plants and animals need to survive and the complex relationships and balances in the garden. Utilize scientific method through observations, asking questions, and investigating.

Required Units: Mapping weather patterns, recording seasonal changes, and studying what seeds, pollinators, and garden ecosystems members need to live.

Curriculum will instill repetitive skills regarding behaviors in the garden classroom, science skills, and gardening knowledge. Class will be focused on seeds with explorations, garden activities, and experiments. Students will learn about the science and nutrition of different parts of plants and the interrelationship of a plant and the ecosystem. They will continue to explore new foods and tastes while practicing objective observation.

Next Generation Science Standards for First Grade: Students must develop an understanding of how plants and animals use external parts to help them, along with behaviors of parents and offspring. They will expand skills as they work collaboratively to plan and carry out investigations and construct explanations. These lessons will work as extensions to in-class reading, writing, and math units.

Required Units: Plant technology and mimicry by people, daylight changes, Earth's place in the universe, heredity differences based on environmental changes.

Curriculum for this grade will be focused on valuing the critical and diverse living organisms in the garden. Students will engage in conversation and collaboration to build advocacy skills. Class lessons will align with learning how to promote healthy soil systems, plant a beneficial habitat, and generate opportunities for pollinators.

Next Generation Science Standards for Second Grade: Students will enhance already growing science skills with focused observations, sketches, and labeling of the garden ecosystem. They will be able to determine whether relationships between humans, other living organisms, and plants are beneficial or not. These lessons will work as extensions to in-class reading, writing, and math units.

Required Units: Long-term and seasonal land changes, pollinators, the process of pollination, populations of life in comparative habitats.

Curriculum will focus deeply into the heart of the garden, the soils. The students will study both living and non-living components which work together to establish a healthy soil system. They will identify decomposers, consumers. and predators in the garden. The students will begin a journal to track progress and record what they have learned.

Next Generation Science Standards for Third Grade: Students will reflect quality scientific expierences and continue to develop science skills. Class lessons will align with learning how animals inhabiting the garden and nonliving aspects support life. These lessons will work as extensions to in-class reading, writing, and math units.

Required Units: Life cycles, changing ecosystems, living and nonliving relationships, Earth sciences, soil types, and seasonal weather events and changes in local landscape.

Following the previous year, the students have studied the living and nonliving aspects of the soil system and garden. Curriculum for this grade will be focused on a more unexplored part of the garden and community, vermicomposting. Students will participate in compost creation, fostering productive plants, valuing the critical and diverse living organisms in the garden. They will have multiple opportunities to apply different senses (through vision, smell, and touch) to engage in memorable garden experiences.

Next Generation Science Standards for Fourth Grade: Students will apply already leanred science skills from previous lessons to explore internal and external structures of vermacomposting. They will conduct research through testing, observation, and analysis. Students will work collaboratively to ask questions and create predictions.These lessons will work as extensions to in-class reading, writing, and math units.

Required Units: Healthy ecosystems, effect of humans on environments, climate change, and nature's response to pesticides.

Curriculum for this grade will continue off the previous lessons following the value of soil health in the garden. Students will participate in more complex seasonal garden activities and practice becoming leaders in the garden class. Some activities may be familar to the students but will be explored with deeper analysis. They will continue to apply all senses to observe their compost experiments and analyze changes over time. Students will be expected to understand microscopic to larger members of the compost ecosystem. These lessons will work as extensions to in-class reading, writing, and math units.

Next Generation Science Standards for Fifth Grade: Students will apply already learned science skills from previous lessons to study the compost ecosystem. They will learn about the energy cycling of organic matter in the compost and changes which occur over time. Students will plan investigations about decomposition of everyday materials, gather data, and develop conclusions. These lessons will work as extensions to in-class reading, writing, and math units.

Required Units: Food waste and food systems, agricultural practices, bacteria studies, and organic matter cycles in ecosystems.

Curriculum for this grade will focus on the influence of water on the garden. Students will experience sensory water play through constructing their own rain garden. They will observe how water moves and develop spatial awareness by mapmaking. Garden maps will allow students to enhance their knowledge of how humans interact in a space. Students will get an opportunity to work collaboratively to landscape a rain garden. These lessons will work as extensions to in-class reading, writing, and math units, as students in this age group learn about climatology, landscape changes, and water cycles.

Next Generation Science Standards for Sixth Grade: Students will develop designing and engineering skills, making observations of physical space, seasonal water movement, human interaction within the space, and soil type.

Required Units: Water erosion, effects of climate change on water movement, impact of human activity, cultural impacts of climate change, and ecosystem response.