Design a School Garden: STEM Project Guide
Design a school garden! Take your STEM or STEAM classroom or program to the next level with this in-depth engineering design STEM challenge.
Grades: 4th - 8th
Teaching Duration: 2 months
Design a school garden! Take your STEM or STEAM classroom or program to the next level with this in-depth engineering design STEM challenge.
Grades: 4th - 8th
Teaching Duration: 2 months
Design a school garden! Take your STEM or STEAM classroom or program to the next level with this in-depth engineering design STEM challenge.
Grades: 4th - 8th
Teaching Duration: 2 months
“Always nice to have a backup outline and activities to go to when building a STEM garden. I now have an entire Garden elective and it’s been a real help as we start to organize things.”
lesson overview
Design a school garden! Take your STEM or STEAM classroom or program to the next level with this in-depth engineering design STEM challenge. Students will apply scientific concepts, math skills, critical thinking, research, and engineering design to plan a long-term school garden for growing vegetables and other plants. This creative and in-depth project is a great activity for your classroom or afterschool program!
Designing a school garden is a multidisciplinary project where creative and critical thinking a central part of the process. Students will need to consider plant needs and spacing requirements as well as a budgeting their materials needed.
Students learn about drawing designs to scale, plant anatomy, botany, plant spacing and companion planting while designing their garden plan. They then use the engineering design process and their garden designs to build a 3D model of their school garden.
STEM Garden Design Challenge Project Guide Includes:
Detailed teachers guide with links to resources
Photos of prototype examples
Science and STEM Career connection handouts
Student lesson worksheets to guide students through lessons on the math involved in drawing to scale, calculating volume of materials, and plant spacing.
Student design packet with a budgeting guide, pricing reference sheets, graphing paper, plant reference information, and a short essay worksheet
Student handouts to guide students through the engineering design process while building their 3D model
Student recording sheet for each step of the process
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