Secondary Curriculum?

[HENRIKSEN, REBEKKA]

Good morning friends,

Do any of you have secondary (grades 9-12) horticulture/botany related lessons you like and would be willing to share? Particularly if hands-on in nature?

Thanks in advance! 

Rebekka Henriksen
Farm to School Projects Manager
Schenectady City School District
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518-929-8590 (personal mobile)

[Linda S. Law-Saunders]

Look into the NAITC curriculums- National Ag in the Classroom

 

Linda S. Law
Family & Consumer Sciences and Ag & Food Systems Educator

Cornell Cooperative Extension | Washington County

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[Erika Kuhr]

Check out this awesome curriculum developed in Hawaii by some awesome educators and curriculum developers 

Course Title: The Science of Sustainable Food Systems

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ebGiQj_pWwjiHsewAGOuWkhkZPFUxDBqnqT-jUCtvQg/edit

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[Bennett Rock]

Hi REBEKKA,

I'm currently developing some lessons for these grades and would love to see what others have. So far 8th grade science: 

Science investigations- kinetic energy of water by calculating rate of flow given various slopes in the garden. We examined run off and contour. 

Energy of a seed:  investigate the strength of seeds potential energy to lift/ break through various media.

Bennett Rock

Explore Ecology

Santa Barbara

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[Dinah Mack]

Mass Farm to School has rolled out a Harvest of the Month Program for Secondary Educators. Each month there are 2 lessons in the newsletter- one focused on humanities and one focused on STEM- as well as other resources related to the crop and food systems. Here is the link to sign up and/or share out: https://www.massfarmtoschool.org/get-involved/harvest-of-the-month/harvest-of-the-month-for-educators-sign-up/

[Shital Parikh]

Thank you for the information. 🍁

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[John Fisher]

Hi, here is a list we compiled of middle school lessons that might be useful to adapt for high school level. This list is linked to from the Finding Lessons section of the SGSO Promising Practices page. 

https://sgsonetwork.org/lessons/

https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vTL14E0oz728BufKxaIaP6Cd-o2TZ_ae8VPMXoRnCgqIAhPGt3Rrc8484PFcGFhAF65DgFt82QaXcK2/pub

I might also suggest you connect with the Huntington Botanical Garden in Pasadena to see if they can share a resource they once had on their website - Huntington Botanical Garden - Grounding in Botany 30 HS plant science lessons. They also had a nice MS plant science lesson collection but those links now are broken. 

John
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[Sarah Pounders]

Hi Rebekka-

On our KidsGardening website you can sort our lessons by grade (from this page: https://kidsgardening.org/resource-lesson-plans/  use the side bar "Explore Our Resources"  and select Content type as "Lesson Plans" and Grade "9-12")

Also our Digging into Soils Guide was written for a high school audience (https://kidsgardening.org/product/digging-into-soil/).

Sarah

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[Cecilia de Botton]

Hi Erika, 

I teach botany and horticulture in a high school in Florida. I would be glad to share the materials I have with you.

We can meet if you want or do a call, let me know.

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On Nov 28, 2022, at 1:53 PM, Erika Kuhr <er...@hipagriculture.org> wrote:



Check out this awesome curriculum developed in Hawaii by some awesome educators and curriculum developers 

Course Title: The Science of Sustainable Food Systems

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ebGiQj_pWwjiHsewAGOuWkhkZPFUxDBqnqT-jUCtvQg/edit

On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 8:42 AM Linda S. Law-Saunders <ls...@cornell.edu> wrote:

Look into the NAITC curriculums- National Ag in the Classroom

 

Linda S. Law
Family & Consumer Sciences and Ag & Food Systems Educator

Cornell Cooperative Extension | Washington County

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Subject: Secondary Curriculum?

 

Good morning friends,

 

Do any of you have secondary (grades 9-12) horticulture/botany related lessons you like and would be willing to share? Particularly if hands-on in nature?

 

Thanks in advance! 

 

Rebekka Henriksen

Farm to School Projects Manager
Schenectady City School District
518-949-0520 (work mobile)
518-929-8590 (personal mobile)

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[HENRIKSEN, REBEKKA]

Thanks so much for offering! Would love to do a Zoom chat or google meet! Let me know some dates/times - I am at the School Garden Institute in California next week, but back the following!

Sincerely, 

Rebekka Henriksen
Farm to School Projects Manager
Schenectady City School District
518-949-0520 (work mobile)
518-929-8590 (personal mobile)

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[HENRIKSEN, REBEKKA]

Good morning colleagues,

I wanted to share with you all this excellent curriculum aimed at Grades 7-12 created by NYS Cornell Extension: https://gardening.cals.cornell.edu/lessons/project-s-o-w-seeds-of-wonder-food-gardening-with-justice-in-mind/

Project S.O.W: Food Gardening with Justice in Mind Have a question on specific gardening programs in your community? Find your local Cornell Cooperative Extension Office. Not from New York? Find your state’s extension office here. gardening.cals.cornell.edu

Focus is on food justice. I have used parts of this curriculm - it is quite complete and full or great resources.

Thanks to those who responded with some ideas around secondary botany/horticulture!

Sincerely, 

Rebekka Henriksen
Farm to School Projects Manager
Schenectady City School District
518-949-0520 (work mobile)
518-929-8590 (personal mobile)

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[Ben]

...a new nationwide survey of teenagers by the EdWeek Research Center, also reveal an education system out of step with the interest of many students on the issue: Teens are hungry to learn more about how climate change will affect the future of the Earth and society, and what they can personally do to lessen the effects. But the vast majority of states do not require comprehensive instruction on the subject outside of high school science class.

http://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/teens-know-climate-change-is-real-they-want-schools-to-teach-more-about-it/2022/11

I'm sharing this edweek news item because a school garden is the ideal place to introduce students to a solar distiller (which can be used as a teaching tool directly relate to various STEM teaching standards and climate change science)

http://groups.google.com/g/school-garden-network/c/zQQ2Bq-v4ck

http://groups.google.com/g/school-garden-network/c/o8-3MZnHy_M

Fact is, given current trends according the "Bureau of Reclamation" A Colorado River doomsday where water supply shortages will impact people AND ag specifically (which includes school gardens) is a very real possibility 

http://www.eenews.net/articles/scant-progress-on-colorado-river-cuts-as-crisis-deepens/

http://www.knpr.org/show/knprs-state-of-nevada/2022-12-15/key-water-conference-for-colorado-river-users-held-in-las-vegas

Because the subject is complicated AND since few teachers actually were taught the applicable science in the first place, perhaps the best way to raise awareness of the topic among school garden educators is to use gallows humor to broadly outline the issue using illustrations, starting off w/ a cartoon of a farmer w/ strategic insight

FYI

Irrigation accounted for most total withdrawals in the CRB [Colorado River Basin], excluding instream use for hydroelectric power and interbasin transfers, averaging 85 percent from 1985 to 2010.

http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/sir20185049


With agriculture responsible for roughly 80 percent of California’s water use, many question the practicality of crops that cannot be fallowed and the viability of producing food for export.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/150508-which-california-exports-crops-are-worth-the-water

A study in San Diego asked if people could identify the scientific reason why climate change is happening

The findings sadly no one could correctly answer the question

www.ThereIsNoPlanet-b.org

Make science in America great again

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