Garden+-+Seedfolks

=Permission Slips= Permission to Garden/Water with Ms. Strearns, 6-24-14 and 6-28-14

=Seedfolks= =As part of our peer review process, please review, make comments, revise, and use these units.= Grace Nelson's UbD Culture Unit for ESL Students - **Can be used for all ELA classes** Self-Actualization Within Cultures
 * Big Ideas:** Culture: Living Together - Sense of Place**,** Sustainability

=//Indoor Organic Learning Garden (with grow light). Deadline 2/1/12 by 5:30 p.m. Apply early - only 100 gardens available.//=



[[file:UbD Pollinators Garden Unit J Council.doc]]Green Magnet Students and Teachers Will Create a Pollinators' Garden.
Image courtesy of British Columbia Government website: http://www.al.gov.bc.ca/apiculture/ [image:Bee-Flower.png Steve Mindlin and Judith Council are spearheading the garden project. UbD Garden Unit by Judith Council and Steve Mindlin. You are welcome to use the unit in any way you wish. Feedback is always appreciated. NYS Career Development Occupational Studies (CDOS) Garden Project, p. 113: [[file:NYS CDOS-Intermed-Career Develop 0-114.pdf]] [[file:What is Soil SMindlin.doc]]

Lessons based on Paul Fleischmann's //Seedfolks//.
**//What is Seedfolks?//** by Linda Hoffman ===I n this tradebook, thirteen very different individuals each tell a story (one chapter each) of their personal involvement and social interactions in the creation of a community garden. Each individual comes to the fledgling garden with a different story. Each individual leaves the garden with a better sense of interdependency, sustainability, and responsibility. In all, students are exposed to sixteen different perspectives (some of the individuals bring a friend!) of how individuals can collectively take care of the commons and learn to live well for the common good. ===

Essential Question: How can we work together to build a sustainable future in our school and community?
1. We are all in this together. (Interdependency) 2. We recognize and protect the Commons. (Tending to the Creations of Society and Nature) (The Commons - Places we all share) 3. We reconcile individual rights with collective responsibilities. (Participation and Leadership) 4. It all begins with a change in thinking. (Thinking Drives Behavior, Behavior Causes Results) 5. We can all create change in our sphere of influence. (Create a goal, and solve one problem at a time.) 6. We recognize that healthy systems have limits. (Sustainability)
 * __The EfS (Education for Sustainability Standards) addressed in this unit of study and aligned Enduring Understandings:__**

Unit of study overview and lessons link:
==== - Great vocabulary activities, discussion questions, writing prompts, graphic organizers for pre, during, and post reading activities====


 * This unit of study (for ELA/ELL students with special education accommodations) was created by Linda Hoffman and Paula Kohm during the Cloud Institute (July 19-24, 2009) for Sustainability Education (371 7th Avenue, NYC). This unit asks students to read the tradebook Seedfolks as a springboard for understanding and reflecting on the Education for Sustainability Standards. The Lorax by Dr. Seuss is also worked into the unit in order to sensitize students initially to the issues of the destruction of natural resources through human actions. In addition, students study other sustainability issues that relate to the notion of taking care of the commons (places that we all share) and of having a sense of participation and leadership.**

Silence of the Bees Video: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/podcasts.html =Queens Botanical's Resources=

Another Interesting Website. Groovy Green: Climate Change, Composting, Energy, Gardening, Green Living, Videos http://www.groovygreen.com/