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Welcome 5
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0-1: Welcome Note from Victoria 30 minLecture1.1
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0-2: Good Things to Know 30 minLecture1.2
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0-3: Why Math Outdoors? 30 minLecture1.3
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0-4: Ideas to Kick Start Your Math Garden 30 minLecture1.4
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0-5: Supply List for Your Mini Math Outdoors Kit 30 minLecture1.5
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Module 1: Math Gardens that Feed 7
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1-0: Welcome to Gardens that Feed 30 minLecture2.1
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1-1: Time 30 minLecture2.2
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1-2: Patterns, Shapes, & Symmetry 30 minLecture2.3
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1-3: Numbers 30 minLecture2.4
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1-4 : Measurement 30 minLecture2.5
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1-5: Data Collection 30 minLecture2.6
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1-6: A Growing Math Garden that FeedsLecture2.7
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Module 2: Math Gardens as Outdoor Learning Stations 8
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2-0: Welcome to Gardens as Outdoor Learning Stations 30 minLecture3.1
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2-1: Time: Sun Dial 30 minLecture3.2
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2-2: Patterns, Shapes, & Symmetry: Music Gardens 30 minLecture3.3
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2-3: Numbers: Miniature Gardens 30 minLecture3.4
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2-4: Measurement: Mud Kitchens 30 minLecture3.5
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2-5: Data Collection: Water Wall 30 minLecture3.6
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2-6: A Growing Garden of Outdoor Learning StationsLecture3.7
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LIVE WORKSHOP #1Lecture3.8
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Module 3: Math Gardens that Attract Wildlife 6
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3:0: Welcome to Gardens that Attract Wildlife 30 minLecture4.1
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3-1: Time and Food for Wildlife 30 minLecture4.2
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3-2: Patterns, Shapes and Symmetry & Cover for Wildlife 30 minLecture4.3
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3-3: Numbers and Water for Wildlife 30 minLecture4.4
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3-4: Measurement and Places to Raise Young Wildlife 30 minLecture4.5
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3-5: Data Collection and Sustainable Practices for Wildlife 30 minLecture4.6
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Module 4: Math Gardens for Art and Beauty 7
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4-0: Welcome to Gardens for Art and Beauty 30 minLecture5.1
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4-1: Time & Labyrinths 30 minLecture5.2
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4-2: Patterns, Shapes, and Symmetry & The Flower Garden 30 minLecture5.3
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4-3: Numbers & Art in the Garden 30 minLecture5.4
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4-4: Measurement & Sculpture 30 minLecture5.5
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4-5: Data Collection & Performance Stages 30 minLecture5.6
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LIVE WORKSHOP #2Lecture5.7
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I love the idea of using ladder and tires for math play. After all, math is about lines and shapes and having different borders for each child to work on his or her work is awesome.
I didn’t plant a garden this year but I did some potted veggies and will take pictures of them with the little signs that I made for them. I loved seeing your before video, the tires made me think of the big garden my father used to have. He would plant his potatoes in them. I have no idea why except maybe just as an alternative to all the rows and sections he had?!
Great memories.
Love the idea of a food garden but since we are closed I don’t know if I could start a food garden that will grow. I’m not good at gardening but not sure if it’s too late in the season. the tire idea.
Just explore with it and it will come.
While we are all at home I have been sending little care packets to families, in the next one I will include some seed starters with vegetable seeds and tiny pots ( the kind you can put right into the garden). I will encourage families to start growing seeds that the kiddos can bring to school when we go back. I have a flower garden at home, but I will start a container garden along with the children and send them videos as part of our virtual classroom.
When we get back to school we will use the planter box on the roof top play space or we will make a container garden from some oversized pots that I currently have in the courtyard playground.
What a wonderful and thoughtful idea!
My garden space is in the sunniest spot of my play yard so that it is easily accessible to the children when they chose to tend it. It is an “L” shape and has 15 plants in it right now. There is still room to add some more plants. Generally, the children and I would’ve planted the seeds to start some plants together. But, not this year. I purchased preplanted plants and will try to start some seeds this week in the ground, such as green beans.
Awesome!
I do not have the space to plant an outdoor feed garden but i was thinking we could do herbs indoors.
Love to see the used tires! I was thinking what to use to make circle shape. Here it is! Thanks. As school is closed. I have no access to take a before video. But I will do it as soon as I can. Now, I just draw the garden in my mind and on paper. 🙂
Great. Looking forward!
My center currently does not have a designated garden area but we do have huge planting pots that we have used in the past. Looking for ways and ideas how to utilize them more. It’s just difficult right now as Covid-19 has in out of the norm. I do have a garden right out of my house, its not mine, but I have access to it so I will use that for the toke being.
Great thinking! You can also try to think of ways to connect with your kids now and what activities you can offer families. Practicing at home is a great idea. Take pictures.
During one of the classroom zoom meetings, the teachers did a lesson on planting using a zip lock bag, seeds and a wet paper towel. The children then documented the growth over time.
So fun!
I’m thinking of following up on the idea of using my small tree cuts in a garden. When I saw the photo in the tool kit video of the log, it gave me an idea of creating a garden around an interesting log in the woods behind my backyard. It’s going to take some time to visualize this garden. The vision is beyond my scope just yet. I’m letting it percolate in my mind. Thanks for the ideas to spark my imagination.
Can’t wait to watch this evolve!
We do not currently have a garden space on the playground my class typically uses but we do have planter boxes on one of the other playgrounds. We have had some herbs (basil, lemon balm, mint) planted just outside the fence. Unfortunately we have had some issues with children picking and eating leaves that were NOT safe for eating (or we were unsure if they were safe) and this cause some restrictions.
There are lots of groundhogs around that make gardening a challenge as well as the fact that I have some difficulty keeping plants alive. I am looking forward to becoming more successful at this and hope that by intentionally planning a variety of activities around the garden, including math of course, that I will be able to focus my attention on the garden.
Challenges can be seen as opportunities to learn. Don’t give up…sounds like there is room for growth. So fun!
Our garden currently only feeds the groundhogs so I’ll be doing some brainstorming on how to transform it for the children or create a new garden in a different area. I really like all of the shapes in your beginner garden! Excited to be inspired 🙂
Yea…keep trying new things until something works.
Our center has a couple of raised wooden boxes outside and one of them is near the playground and 1 in front of the entrance that the kids could see from the climbing structure in the classroom. Last year, we did plant flowers in that one from what we had leftover from our parent event but right now there is nothing there. I have some things starting to grow in my house in the spaces I had available which aren’t very good but which I will improve upon now that I have some better materials and the growths began from leftover food such as lettuce, red peppers, and onions so maybe I will see if I can keep those growing and then when we get back take them to be replanted in the boxes at work. I have a black thumb and couldn’t even keep a succulent alive but I am going to keep trying and I think that there is value in learning from your mistakes which is something we need to teach children as well so that would be okay. I have pictures but I can’t figure out how to get them to copy into this space.
Great attitude!
After many years of planting a vegetable garden only to have the rabbits and woodchuck feast, we invested in three raised metal beds and a beautiful gated fence dug six inches below ground to try to deter the animals. Last year we did organic seed starts in my classroom. We had great success with tomatoes, celery, okra, and cilantro. Not everything was successful and we need to reevaluate spacing and like crops.
Oh…I would love to see a picture.
We don’t currently have a garden space at my center. But I’ve definitely gotten inspiration from your “blank slate”. I love the tires and ladders ideas!
We are in a public school building and are not allowed to dig directly into the ground. I am hoping to start (once we get back to our classrooms) with a set of planters and other containers just outside our door and possible a windowsill container or two as well! I have been working on planning and sketching my ideas so I can present them to my director.
Great thinking!
We don’t currently have a garden that feeds, but we do have 3 planters, and a rock “garden” space ( i say garden, but there really isn’t any other plants other than a blueberry bush) but it’s very wet so I’m not sure it would be a good place to grow a garden. When we come back in the fall, I would like to set up a little garden. the only challenge we have is that we are away for the summer, which is when most of the plants and flowers would be grown.
Yippee!
Our temporary school site does not have a garden plot that we can work with. We are planning a container garden with many big containers. I like the idea of using tires. Did you find the depth ok for root systems?
Terrific alternatives! Yes. I have a friend that has also used tires and she loves them.
Sorry hit submit before I meant too. We have a small gazebo set up with garden boxes on each end. Mums are planted in the fall and pansies in the spring/summer. In the winter when it’s not filled with snow we fill it with left over pumpkins and sometimes straw. I would love to try to incorporate a little vegetable or fruit garden in that spot, my goal would be plant in the spring and hopefully something would sprout before the end of the year.
Sounds lovely!
I love how simple you make this, no need to go out and purchase special garden stuff.
Yes..that’s the name of the game! Outdoor Classrooms on a shoe-string budget.
Currently I do not have an outdoor classroom space, but my hope is to have one soon! During our video chat, I shared some ideas of how I could work in the outdoor space at my own school. Since then, I’ve started to make a shift! My husband and I are expecting our first baby in April, and my goal is to move my teaching practice from public to private while our baby is very young! My thinking is that I would start an outdoor classroom in my own backyard that I could use with students that I privately tutor. I would like to do at least 2 raised garden spaces. One would primarily consist of vegetables, and the other is unknown at this time! We have a large yard with lots of opportunity, so I am hoping to spend the rest of fall and winter planning out these gardens!
Wonderful!!! How exciting to have made this shift. This is the perfect time to be planning and thinking of all the possibilities.
HI Our outdoor classroom is our greenhouse we enjoy classroom time outside planting seeds counting them as we plant then nurturing our garden with water and sunshine and watching the plants grow . Then measuring the plants as they grow. Then of course enjoying the end product of flowers or tomatoes, kale, chives ,cucumbers, etc at the end. the kids love this process and are all excited to see whats inside the outdoor classroom today !
Welcome Katy! I am thrilled you are here. So cool to have a greenhouse. Your description of your garden sounds like a page from the “Planting a Rainbow” children’s book. Looking forward to learning more about your outdoor learning spaces.
OUR GARDEN SPACE IS A 5X5 RAISED GARDEN RIGHT OUTSIDE THE DOOR OF OUR OUTDOOR SPACE. THIS PAST SPRING/SUMMER/FALL WE HAD LETTUCE, BROCCOLI, TOMATOES AND PUMPKINS GROWING IN IT. THE CHILDREN ENJOYED EATING THE TOMATOES RIGHT OFF OF THE VINE EVEN IF THEY WERE GREEN. THEY ALSO SPENT LOTS OF TIME MASHING THEM UP WITH A MORTAR AND PESTLE AND JUST CARRYING THEM AROUND AS THEY COLLECTED THEM.
THE GARDEN IS PAST SEASON SO THE CHILDREN RECENTLY HAVE BEEN USING THE BIG BROCCOLI LEAVES TO BUILD, RIP APART, MAKE BABY BEDS, ETC.
PLANTED BY ONE CLASSROOM THEN, I AM HOPING WE CAN MAKE IT MORE OF A COMMUNITY PROJECT AND ALLOW ALL OF THE CLASSES TO DECIDE WHAT TO PLANT THERE WHEN SPRING ARRIVES. MAYBE EACH CLASS WILL VOTE ON WHAT KIND OF GARDEN IT WILL BE AND WHAT WILL BE GROWN.
WE ALSO HAD PLANTS HANGING FROM THE FENCE OF THE SPACE USING OVER THE DOOR SHOE HOLDERS. I WOULD LIKE TO EXPAND OUR GARDEN SPACE IN CREATIVE WAYS LIKE THIS IN THE SPRING.
I AM ALSO EAGER TO GUIDE THE CHILDREN TO TAKE CARE OF THE THINGS WE GROW, TO BE MINDFUL OF OUR WORK, TO WATCH WHERE WE STEP AND THEN HOPEFULLY HARVEST IT AS A GROUP AND CELEBRATE USING THE PRODUCE.
Wonderful description! Sounds like you planted some wonderful vegetables. I love how the children interacted with the garden too. I love your ideas for expanding this space. This is a great time to be thinking, drawing and sketching ideas. Hope you will find some seeds of inspiration in the coming weeks. 🙂
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