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Description
What could be better than picking a fresh tomato from your patio plant or harvesting green beans from your backyard garden for supper? Gardens provide fresh food and create attractive outdoor spaces, but they also help mitigate the effects of climate change, preserve biodiversity, and promote healthier communities. In this outdoor investigation, students examine gardening practices at a local garden, assess its abiotic and biotic components, and develop a plan to improve its sustainability. This engaging activity explores how sustainable gardening practices benefit both the environment and people, while fostering an interest in growing food and caring for the planet.
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Recommendation of how and where to use it
This resource supports Grade 5-8 Science learning related to interactions in ecosystems, biodiversity and climate change. The activity is also well suited for Technology units exploring food production, food sustainability and the connection between environmental health and local foods.
The activity explores a current local garden, but can also be extended to include a student-led action project in which pupils work with local citizens to develop, plant and care for a community vegetable garden on school grounds. Nutrients for Life is a Canadian organization that has developed free resources and support for this type of project and their guide can be found here.
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- Alberta
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- Grade 5
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- Science
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- Earth Systems: Understandings of the living world, Earth, and space are deepened by investigating natural systems and their interactions.
- Grade 6
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- Science
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- Earth Systems: Understandings of the living world, Earth, and space are deepened through investigating natural systems and their interactions.
- Living Systems: Understandings of the living world, Earth, and space are deepened through investigating natural systems and their interactions
- Grade 7
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- Science
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- Interactions and Ecosystems
- Plants for Food and Fibre
- Manitoba
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- Grade 5
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- Technological Education
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- Human Ecology: food and Nutrition - Citizenship and Sustainability
- Grade 6
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- Human Ecology: Food and Nutrition - Citizenship and Sustainability
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- Science
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- Interactions Within Ecosystems
- Technological Education
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- Human Ecology: Food and Nutrition - Citizenship and Sustainability
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- Human Ecology: Food and Nutrition - Citizenship and Sustainability
- New Brunswick
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- Grade 6
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- Technology: Exploration/Design & Experimentation/Application: Practical Skills
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- Exploration/Design & Experimentation/Application: Practical Skills
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- Exploration/Design & Experimentation/Application: Practical Skills
- Grade 9
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- Science
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- Science 9 Ecosystem Dynamics: Learning and Living Sustainably
- Science 9 Ecosystem Dynamics: Scientific Literacy
- Newfoundland & Labrador
- Northwest Territories
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- Grade 5
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- Health Education
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- Health: Developing healthy relationships helps us feel connected, supported, and valued as an NWT capable perso
- Nova Scotia
- Nunavut
- Ontario
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- Grade 6
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- Science & Technology
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- Life Systems: Biodiversity
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- Science & Technology
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- Life Systems: Interactions in the Environment
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
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- Grade 5
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- Science & Technology
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- Living Things
- Grade 6
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- Living Things
- Saskatchewan
Themes Addressed
Air, Atmosphere & Climate (1)
- Climate Change
Citizenship (1)
- Community-Building and Participation
Food & Agriculture (1)
- Local Food