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Schoolyard Garden Guides

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Title:

Schoolyard Garden Guides

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National Geographic

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Overview:

This resource provides guides and examples to help start your own school garden.

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Science SC2015 (2015) Grade: K	4 ) Gather evidence to support how plants and animals provide for their needs by altering their environment (e.g., tree roots breaking a sidewalk to provide space, red fox burrowing to create a den to raise young, humans growing gardens for food and building roads for transportation). NAEP Framework NAEP Statement:: E4.11: Humans depend on their natural and constructed environment. Humans change environments in ways that can either be beneficial or detrimental for themselves and other organisms. NAEP Statement:: L4.1: Organisms need food, water, and air; a way to dispose of waste; and an environment in which they can live.* NAEP Statement:: L4.2: Organisms have basic needs. Animals require air, water, and a source of energy and building material for growth and repair. Plants also require light. NAEP Statement:: L4.3: Organisms interact and are interdependent in various ways, including providing food and shelter to one another. Organisms can survive only in environments in which their needs are met. Some interactions are beneficial; others are detrimental to the organism and other organisms. NAEP Statement:: L4.4: When the environment changes, some plants and animals survive and reproduce; others die or move to new locations. NAEP Statement:: L4.7: Different kinds of organisms have characteristics that enable them to survive in different environments. Individuals of the same kind differ in their characteristics, and sometimes the differences give individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing. Unpacked Content Scientific And Engineering Practices: Engaging in Argument from Evidence Crosscutting Concepts: Cause and Effect Disciplinary Core Idea: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics Evidence Of Student Attainment: Students: Make a claim using evidence to show how plants and animals sometimes alter their environment to ensure their needs are met. Teacher Vocabulary: Gather Evidence Support Plant Animal Provide Needs Alter Environment Claim Knowledge: Students know: Plants and animals meet their needs. Plants change their environment to meet their needs. Animals change their environment to meet their needs. Skills: Students are able to: Gather data (evidence) to support a claim that plants and animals alter the environment when meeting their needs. Understanding: Students understand that: Systems in the natural and designed world have parts that work together like the plants and animals within their environments. AMSTI Resources: vocabulary related to specific examples AMSTI Module:* Plants and Animals Exploring Plants and Animals, STC Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards* AAS Standard: SCI.AAS.K.4- Observe and/or identify ways plants and animals alter their environment to live.
Science SC2015 (2015) Grade: 2	5 ) Plan and carry out an investigation, using one variable at a time (e.g., water, light, soil, air), to determine the growth needs of plants. NAEP Framework NAEP Statement:: E4.5: Natural materials have different properties that sustain plant and animal life. NAEP Statement:: E4.7: The Sun warms the land, air, and water and helps plants grow. NAEP Statement:: L4.1: Organisms need food, water, and air; a way to dispose of waste; and an environment in which they can live.* NAEP Statement:: L4.2: Organisms have basic needs. Animals require air, water, and a source of energy and building material for growth and repair. Plants also require light. NAEP Statement:: L4.3: Organisms interact and are interdependent in various ways, including providing food and shelter to one another. Organisms can survive only in environments in which their needs are met. Some interactions are beneficial; others are detrimental to the organism and other organisms. Unpacked Content Scientific And Engineering Practices: Planning and Carrying out Investigations Crosscutting Concepts: Cause and Effect Disciplinary Core Idea: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics Evidence Of Student Attainment: Students: Plan and carry out an investigation of the growth needs of plants to collect data on the effects of providing/withholding enough water, light, nutrients, and air. Teacher Vocabulary: Investigation Variable Water Light Soil Air Nutrients Causes Effects Isolate Knowledge: Students know: Basic growth needs of plants include water, nutrients, light, and air. Skills: Students are able to: Conduct an investigation to produce data used as evidence. Determine the growth needs of plants. Collaboratively develop an investigation plan that describes key features of the investigation and isolates variables as needed. Understanding: Students understand that: There are observable patterns present in the growth of plants that can be used to determine the needs of plants. AMSTI Resources: AMSTI Module: Plants and Bugs Plant Growth and Development, STC The Best of Bugs: Designing Hand Pollinators, EiE Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards AAS Standard: SCI.AAS.2.5- Participate in investigations of the growth needs of plants (e.g., water, light, soil, air) over a period of time.
Science SC2015 (2015) Grade: 4	9 ) Examine evidence to support an argument that the internal and external structures of plants (e.g., thorns, leaves, stems, roots, colored petals, xylem, phloem) and animals (e.g., heart, stomach, lung, brain, skin) function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. NAEP Framework NAEP Statement:: L4.4: When the environment changes, some plants and animals survive and reproduce; others die or move to new locations. Unpacked Content Scientific And Engineering Practices: Engage in Argument from Evidence Crosscutting Concepts: Systems and System Models; Structure and Function Disciplinary Core Idea: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes Evidence Of Student Attainment: Students: Argue from evidence to support that the internal and external structures of plants function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. Argue from evidence to support that the internal and external structures of animals function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. Teacher Vocabulary: argue articulate evidence internal external structure survival function behavior reproduction Knowledge: Students know: Internal and External structures serve specific functions within plants and animals. The functions of internal and external structures can support survival, growth, behavior and/or reproduction in plants and animals. Different structures work together as part of a system to support survival, growth, behavior, and/or reproduction. Skills: Students are able to: Articulate an explanation from evidence explaining how the internal and external structures of plants and animals function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. Determine the strengths and weaknesses of the evidence collected, including whether or not it supports a claim about the role of internal and external structures of plants and animals in supporting survival, growth, behavior, and/or reproduction. Use reasoning to connect the relevant and appropriate evidence to support an argument about the function of the internal and external structures of plants and animals. Understanding: Students understand that: Plants and animals have both internal and external structures that serve various functions in growth, survival, behavior, and reproduction. AMSTI Resources: AMSTI Module: Animal Studies Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards AAS Standard: SCI.AAS.4.9- Identify basic parts of plants and animals.
Science SC2015 (2015) Grade: 4	13 ) Plan and carry out investigations to examine properties of soils and soil types (e.g., color, texture, capacity to retain water, ability to support growth of plants). NAEP Framework NAEP Statement:: E4.4: Earth materials that occur in nature include rocks, minerals, soils, water, and the gases of the atmosphere. NAEP Statement:: E8.6: Soil consists of weathered rocks and decomposed organic material from dead plants, animals, and bacteria. Soils are often found in layers with each having a different chemical composition and texture. Unpacked Content Scientific And Engineering Practices: Planning and Carrying out Investigations Crosscutting Concepts: Patterns Disciplinary Core Idea: Earth's Systems Evidence Of Student Attainment: Students: Identify the properties of soil. Plan and carry out an investigation that examines the various types of soil and soil properties. Describe the data collected that will serve as the basis for the evidence. Teacher Vocabulary: color absorbency texture capacity properties of soil types of soil ( sand, silt, clay, humus) infiltration particle size structure consistency Knowledge: Students know: Soil properties (particle size, color, texture). Soil types ( sand, silt, clay, and humus). Relationship between soil types and water. Skills: Students are able to: Plan and conduct simple tests using various soil types. Collect, describe and evaluate data. Articulate and explain from evidence the properties of soil and soil types. Understanding: Students understand that: Similarities and differences in patterns can be used to sort and classify soil types by property. AMSTI Resources: AMSTI Module: Water and Landforms Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards AAS Standard: SCI.AAS.4.13- Observe the properties of soils (e.g., color, texture, capacity to retain water, ability to support growth of plants); Identify different types of soil (e.g., silt, clay, sand).
Science SC2015 (2015) Grade: 7 Life Science	11 ) Analyze and interpret data to predict how environmental conditions (e.g., weather, availability of nutrients, location) and genetic factors (e.g., selective breeding of cattle or crops) influence the growth of organisms (e.g., drought decreasing plant growth, adequate supply of nutrients for maintaining normal plant growth, identical plant seeds growing at different rates in different weather conditions, fish growing larger in large ponds than in small ponds). NAEP Framework NAEP Statement:: L8.10a: For some characteristics, inheritance is more important; for other characteristics, interactions with the environment are more important. NAEP Statement:: L8.10b: The characteristics of organisms are influenced by heredity and environment. Unpacked Content Scientific And Engineering Practices: Analyzing and Interpreting Data Crosscutting Concepts: Cause and Effect Disciplinary Core Idea: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics Evidence Of Student Attainment: Students: Predict, using analysis and interpretation of data, how both environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms. Teacher Vocabulary: Analyze Interpret Data Predict Environmental Conditions (e.g., weather, resource availability, etc.) Genetics Genetic Factors (e.g., selective breeding, etc.) Organisms Knowledge: Students know: Environmental factors can influence growth. Genetic factors can influence growth. Changes in the growth of organisms can occur as specific environmental and genetic factors change. Skills: Students are able to: Organize given data on how both environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms to allow for analysis and interpretation. Analyze the data to identify possible causal relationships between environmental and genetic factors and the growth of organisms. Interpret patterns observed from the data to provide causal accounts for events and make predictions for events by constructing explanations. Understanding: Students understand that: Genetic factors as well as local conditions affect the growth of organisms. Because both environmental and genetic factors can influence organisms simultaneously, organism growth is the result of environmental and genetic factors working together. Because organism growth can have several genetic and environmental causes, the contributions of specific causes or factors to organism growth can be described only using probability. AMSTI Resources: AMSTI Module: Investigating Biodiversity and Interdependence Studying the Development and Reproduction of Organisms Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards AAS Standard: SCI.AAS.7.11- Predict how various environmental conditions affect our food supply; recognize that farmers use selective breeding of plants and animals to influence the growth and other factors of those plants and animals.

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Schoolyard Garden Guides