Select first through fourth grade students participated in Spring 2012 South Bronx Gardeners Program. Participants:

1. Explored the plant and animal life in the school garden.

2. Used a science notebook to write and draw their observations.

3. Investigated plant physical properties and characteristics.

4. Developed a movie about gardening skills, using the following skills: photographs, drawings, writing descriptions, video, and audio.

5. Presented their garden videos to other individuals.

Session Day | Session Focus

Monday, June 4, 2012 "Getting to Know the Garden and Movie Making Skills"

Being a Movie Maker

1. Learn the camera.
2. Camera Talk and Movement
3. Video Scavenger Hunt
4. Movie Making Practice

Watch these video made by students. Focus on these questions:

• How does the interviewER do an effective job?
• How does the interviewEE do an effective job?
• What could we make the interview BETTER?

5. Practice Making a Movie

There will be a "director," "interviewER," "interviewEE,"cameraperson" and "producer."

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 "Exploring the Garden and Reviewing Movie Making"

Explore different movie making skills.

Thursday, June 14, 2012 "Exploring the Garden Tools"

C. We will learn about garden tools, such as the hoe, cultivator, trowel, rake, wheel barrow, hose, weeder, sprinkler.

D. Plant/Transplant in the garden.

E. We will record movies while we are in the garden. Remember your roles and movie making skills!

Monday, June 18, 2012 "Taking Care of Your Garden, Day 1"

1. Administrative work

Each film crew will have a baskets for materials. Each of YOU will be responsible for your materials inside the school and outside in the garden.

• Film Crew 1, "Spring Garden Crew": Kabore, Willy, Sharline, Kayla
• Film Crew 2, "Explorers": Dania, Carmen, Thomas, Jafreisi, Shanielys
• Film Crew 3, "Garden Kids": Angelo, Joshua, Jailynne, Celia
• Film Crew 4, "Gardeners Crew": Jeneleese, Amadou, Marolin, Odalmis, Afrah
• Film Crew 5, "BIG Garden Crew": Cristian, Jeffer, Leslie, Shanelle
• Film Crew 6, "iPad Lightning Crew": Maryeli, Andy, Janice, Basel, Federico

Materials: Video Camera, Field Guid, Film Crew Role Tags, Clapperboard, Megaphone, Pencils, Folders, Garden Rubric

2. Critiquing our film making skills.

• Let's critique, or rate, each film crews movies from last Thursday.
• Movie Making Skills
• So, you have started to record your own movies. Click here for tips on making a movie.

3. Developing Garden Interview Cue Cards

• Let's brainstorm interview topics. We will make a list.
• Developing Cue Cards by Ms. Velez

4. Heading to the Garden

• We will learn to utilize different garden tools. We will plant impatiens, sunflowers, and other plants and seeds.
• Finding your filming location
• Review Garden Rules
• Do you know the rules of the garden?

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 "Taking Care of Your Garden, Day 2"

It is hot today!!!! Drink plenty of fluids (water!).

Garden Time! Don't forget the Garden Rules today! Do you know the rules of the garden?

We will be spending most of our time outside today. We will do many different garden jobs today.

1. We will plant in the garden.

• We will plant seedlings in the ground.
• We will plant seeds in the ground.
• We will plant flowers in the ground.

2. We will water the garden plants.

• Plants need water just like us! Gulp, gulp, gulp!

3. We will clean up the garden.

• Think about how the garden looks when you get outside. How can we clean up the garden?

Movie Time!

After we do all these different jobs as busy gardeners we will create new SHORT movies about our garden jobs. Which job will you make a movie about?

Movie Making Skills

So, you have started to record your own movies. Click here for tips on making a movie.

Thursday, June 21, 2012 "Selecting Your Top Movies"

Reviewing Our Movies

• Your film crew will select (choose or pick) your favorite movie to share with us! Only one more day to make movies. That is today!!!

Developing Cue Questions for New Interviews

• How did your film crew operate yesterday? "Operate" means "work." Let's set up new cue questions.

Garden Rules Do you know the rules of the garden?

Movie Making Skills

So, you have started to record your own movies. Click here for tips on making a movie.

Monday, June 25, 2012 "Eating Tasty and Healthy from Your Garden"

Today's Agenda

1. Top Film Selection: What criteria should your film crew use?

2. Getting Ready to Cook: What can we harvest from our garden?

3. Gardening: What garden tasks does our garden need?

First up: Top Film Selection

We will look at the films that we created. But first, let's talk to our film crew. What makes a film a good one for others to watch? We will create a webpage for people to watch your films!!! Pick you top 3 films!

Follow the steps for looking at all your films. You will tell the teachers which films you selected as your favorite ones. You will tell the teachers your reasons why you chose the films. Use this sentence to help you --> We selectedbecause __.

Movie Making Skills

So, you have started to record your own movies. Click here for tips on making a movie.

Next up: Getting Ready to Cook

Tomorrow is the last day for the South Bronx Gardeners Program for this year. We will celebrate by cooking together. We will harvest plants from the garden to add to our meal.

So...what should we cook? Those of you who are CookShop Chefs have some ideas!!! Hmmm...what can we harvest from the garden today to cook tomorrow?

Last up: Gardening

We will do some garden tasks. What should we do in the garden? Speak to your film crew to get some ideas. Think about what the garden needs completed.

Don't forget, we will harvest some plants from the garden.

• Have you seen scallions in the garden?
• Have you seen Lettuce plants in the garden?
• Have you seen Corn plants in the garden?
• Have you seen Tomato plants in the garden?
• Have you seen Potato plants in the garden?
• Have you see Green Beans plants in the garden?

Have you seen Strawberry plants in the garden?

Garden Rules Do you remember the rules of the garden?

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 "Garden Film Festival"

Garden Rules Do you remember the rules of the garden?

Movie Making Skills

So, you have started to record your own movies. Click here for tips on making a movie.

For Program Staff.