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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’m collecting some materials now to create a mud kitchen for when the kids return. They already have a favorite spot to make mud pies so this will be something I know they will get a lot of use out of and spend endless amounts of time playing with. I’ve printed out the journal pages for them and we’ll have fun added throughout the year.
I would love to see their faces. Make sure you take pictures!
Again, getting more creative with the items that we have and that we see every day, I really enjoyed the leaf activity. I’ve measured leaves before with the kids but not to the extent of using a string or ruler to actually measure them. Its more or less which ones bigger which one smaller which one has more pointed sides and so on. Thanks for these ideas
Glad you are finding extensions.
i love the small mud kitchen and think its something I could do on my small back porch comparing with leaves is something fun we can do as well.
While reading about the Measurement activities for older children I thought yeah that would be a great activity for measuring and journaling while using a string. It incorporates the use of several materials as well as documenting the differences in leaves. I would encourage the children to add a note about which plant the leave came from. I think also that having older children working with younger children could work on this activity. But, I think buttons are not a good idea.
I find that comparing and contrasting is an easy way for the younger children to give feed back in at least one way.
My children really enjoy putting food together so I can see them liking chopping, cutting and mixing up a delicious salad
Terrific!
I love the mud kitchen! We do have one on our playground with various materials and measuring cups. The children love it. They normally fill it with mulch but its ok they still enjoy it. I also would love to make a caprese salad. So yummy.
Personally, I love caprese salad though I do it a little differently because I leave out the basil since I don’t like it and use balsamic glaze instead of the olive oil and it is yummy. I think that looking at the different leaves with my toddlers and using some legos to measure them would be good for them especially if I use different size legos. I had never heard of the book “A Fruit is a Suitcase for Seeds” so I went and looked up to see if there was a read aloud on youtube and there was and it sounds like a great book. I could use it with my toddlers and make sure it is appropriate and then we could explore the “suitcases” and where the seeds might be hiding in some fruits that we would use later for eating.
YEA!!! Love that you are finding new books AND seeing if there are read-a-loud on YouTube. I love basil and balsamic glaze….heaven.
We have made herb bread and herb butter from the garden. Practiced quantity words while measuring. We also added a set of pots and pans and measuring cups and spoons to the sand lot next to the garden. a lot of quantity work there.
Heaven! Can you share the recipes!! I would love to try.
I love doing cooking with the kids! I’m excited about the Fruit Salad activity…would have the kids each bring in a fruit, we can discuss the differences and observe the differences/similarities.
We’ve done many activities with leaves but I can’t say we’ve ever measured them (discussed size but never actually measured). The kids will enjoy that.
Yea!!! Love that ideas are starting to flow.
I dream of creating a mud kitchen in our outdoor space! My coworkers think it’s too messy…. I had one at home when my own children were younger and to this day they love “making potions” and “flower soup”, even though we don’t have a permanent mud kitchen anymore. I would add actual spices and different foods to the mud on occasion (learned to stay away from garlic powder the hard way).
With my preschoolers, I explore leaves often. We would bring out magnifying glasses and look at them close. We pick fallen leaves in the fall and sort them by color or shape. Count them, make patterns. And most times we end up collecting as many as we can and jump in at the end.
I would love to be able to have a veggie garden we could harvest and make a salad, like your recipe!
Wonderful ideas!!! I love Mud Kitchens too. Maybe you can make one and start without the Mud.
Haven’t tried any ideas yet because it is mid-March and we are in Coronavirus quarantine, but I am going to try the seed packet ideas and get different varieties of beans for comparing, counting & swapping. I will certainly try the other activities. as they are all wonderful!!!
Thrilled you are still enjoying the activities under the circumstances. You will have lifetime access to the entire course–so you can always go back.
We are also fortunate enough to have a mud kitchen incorporated in our playground. It is equipped with a rain barrel where the children can access any water collected to cook with. During the colder months the students collect snow or ice, it is a big hit and such a wonderful to fulfill sensory needs as well as using the kitchen to incorporate little math lessons throughout the year.
A wonderful Mud Kitchen I might add. Can you think of any additional math lessons in the Mud Kitchen that you have not done before?
Opposites is a concept my class has fun with. We incorporated this and the concept of comparing into a nature walk one afternoon. On this walk they not only collected items for their nature self-portraits but along the way I would stop them with several leaves and they would compare the size and any common or opposite features as well as counting the size with a ruler I brought along. It was such a simple of fun activity.
Thrilled you had a ruler with you! A beautiful walk turned into a math lesson outdoors! Simple!
I love working with the seed packets with the kids and look forward to doing this with the kale seeds we got! My favorite book about leaves is Leaf man by Lois Elhert I enjoy the journey the leaves take! If you have not read it check it out!
Love this book! I will add it to this exercise.
YEA!!!!
My thought with these seeds of inspiration would be to use stacking cubes as a unit of measurement. I can have my students collect and trace leaves 2 different leaves each. Then they can measure each one with cubes. On their paper it could have a space for leaf #1 and leaf #2. Under the leave tracings, I would write “This leaf is ______ cubes long.” On the very bottom we could compare the leaves by saying “Leaf # ____ is longer than leaf #____. We can then compare the lengths to see which ones were longest or shortest. We could also do this with our pumpkin unit. The students can measure the height of their pumpkins and compare their heights.
Fantastic! What fun Fall math activities to play with. Love how you are adapting the material to your classroom. Cubes are a great tool for teaching.
We made a caprese salad this summer from our garden harvest. The students loved it.
Oh my goodness….that is so funny! I love it too. So simple!