Our Class Garden

A word from the students:

“This week we have been working on our class garden.  We are planting carrots, lettuce, peas, mint, broccoli, and potatoes.”

-Sarah Fitzsimmons

“Dear Discovery School…Monday we got new Chromebooks.  They are so awesome! The Chromebooks have rotating cameras, an 8 hour battery life, and a carrying handle.”

-Tru Merrell

Our Class Garden

During the last week of August, the 6th grade class decided to make use of six of Discovery School’s raised garden beds by planting our very own class garden.  As students began researching what vegetables would be best to include in our garden they soon realized that planting a garden this time of the year presents many challenges.  Students researched the growing times, ability to survive frost, and harvest times of numerous plants.

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Once students completed all necessary research, they compiled their data into visual graphs.  Small groups presented their various data graphs to the class.

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Students used the data they had collected and the data presented by other groups to make a class decision on what vegetables to plant in our class garden.  Ultimately, this is how the class voted…

Potatoes 9

Lettuce 9

Mint 7

Peas 7

Broccoli 3

Carrots 3

Spinach 2

Shallots 1

Onions 1

Kale 0

Broad Beans 0

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The class weeded the beds and added a new layer of topsoil before planting lettuce and carrots. We will be planting the peas soon.  Unfortunately the other seeds were unavailable locally and had to be ordered.  Hopefully they will arrive soon and we can get them in the soil.  This whole process falls perfectly in line with our current central idea, “Data sets can be compared to draw conclusions about relationships among them and help us better understand our world.”  Students were able to see that it is sometimes difficult to choose a credible source from which to draw data and find data that is consistent across several sources.  This has been a powerful learning experience that 6th grade will continue to build upon.

Thanks for reading!

~Mr. Wicker

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