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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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23 Comments
The first time I saw rock balancing was when my teenager daughter did it on the beach one day. It was so relaxing that we showed the kids how to do it and they loved it. They were really engaged in finding just the right rocks in just the right shapes to balance them. Such a great idea for kids of all ages.
First photo on the page immediately drew my attention as being Dr Suessical like. He is very entertaining to the children.
Rock sculpture garden is a great natural block area for outside. They could graph the sizes of the rocks used. How tall the structures were whose was taller. how wide are the towers. Is the base wider than the top? taking photos of the towers and try to recreate the same tower at another time. Bring in numerous photos of their towers and compare and contrast them .
I’d like to try to figure out how to create the ceramic garden
Love this!
Rock balancing is a spiritual tradition done in Aruba. People come to meditate by the ocean and create their own rock balance. The after effect is stunning. It is very calming(which these kiddos probably need right now) and requires thought and slowness to make them stack up. I have some kiddos that are extremely active and I can already see how this would benefit them
Ahhhhh….
I love the idea of a rock garden and I am working on where this should be on my playground and how to define the area. Making a wire tree looking at a photo of trees will be a fun provocation and could lead to comparison activities such as Whose tree is the tallest? Has the shortest branches? etc
Talking about measuring tools gave me the idea to have a special location for measuring tools on the playground (likely put away at night to keep them from getting ruined) with a sign that says how many rulers etc are expected to be in the bin. This will allow everyone to know where these items go and keep track of how many are missing, which will involve some math problem solving.
Awesome!! Great ideas.
This is right up my alley since we don’t have an outdoor garden space. I will absolutely be revisiting this and letting my teachers navigate it as well! I am so excited about these activities!!!!!!
Terrific!!
In Franklin, where I live, we have a sculpture garden. My family loves to walk through and look at how the art is made and installed in sync with the surrounding nature. There actually used to be a field of clay flowers! They change the art periodically. Now there are metal flowers with a metal sun over them. And a walkway of rainbow (painted gateways in rectangle shape, 7 of them, gradually getting smaller or larger, depending on your direction). That installation alone is a great opportunity for math activities!
With my littles, we love creating sculptures with pipe cleaners, wiki sticks, craft sticks and loads of tape – they do love tape! I love the idea of taking it outside, using more natural materials and making our sculptures a permanent decoration of our outdoor space.
Very cool.
These gardens are so beautiful. For our little ones, the rock gardens offer them the most opportunity to create freely without adult intervention. For the wire sculpture, that would work best as a group project. I would love to create window boxes for the ceramic flowers.
Awesome job! Keep up the great work.
A rock garden would be a really fun idea that could allow for so many skills and open ended learning. I really like the idea of adding measuring tools to it as well. As someone had mentioned it would be cool to use in the snow as well.
I think a rock garden would work for the age of children I work with and it would be a nice calming activity as they do it and they could measure how high their sculpture is and count how many rocks it took to make it. The ceramic flower garden was cool looking.
I love all the ideas, especially creating a wire sculpture tree forest, even if on a smaller scale. I often put out rocks & stones of different sizes and tree cookies for the children to stack, balance or design with. I think the ceramic garden could be done using fun foam flowers and dowels. The children could measure out a square patch inside the outdoor garden and create the same thing and give instructions for the children to measure different lengths of dowels to create different heights of flowers.
Fabulous fun!
I love the idea of creating a garden without plants and flowers, I feel like this would open up so many interesting ideas for the students. If you could have your own garden made out of anything, what would it be? The ceramic garden video was beautiful, what a lovely and different idea. I would love to have my students perhaps create flowers out of model magic and create an indoor garden. This would tie in so nicely with the butterfly and insect unit we do in the spring.
Love that you are thinking outside of the box. So many possibilities and connections!
yep Heather I agree with the snow sculpting, our kids love to collect the ice pieces and enjoy building with snow. It is not always a snowman. We have made snow cats and dogs and other various animals. We enjoy using lengths of yarn to measure things for more or less than activities.
I love the idea of making rock sculptures. I’m even thinking about how much fun it would be to turn that area into a snow measuring area in the winter! I think that for my class, we would need to keep a “measuring kit” inside. Then we could bring it out to measure our creations. The measuring tools could include rulers, scales, string, cubes and more!
My students could also write about their creations and include how many/much of each item they used to create their sculpture. They could also write about what they found when they used more or less. Perhaps the sculpture got too big and fell over, or maybe without enough stones or snow, it wouldn’t stand tall enough!
I love how you are adapting the “seeds of inspiration” to the season and the upcoming Winter snow. Brilliant!
We have a rock garden for this purpose of balancing rocks. It is a favorite place for our kids. I think I will try and create a wire tree with the class for our room we can then “plant” at our new center. It could be a winter long project.