Plant a Smile at Pelion Outdoor Classroom!
There are millions of different leaves! How do Naturalists and Botanists categorize plants? How do they describe the variety of traits to others? Scientists had to develop a shared vocabulary. We teach our students that science has a language which makes communicating ideas and principles easier to convey. 6th graders use a chart to identify over 40 specific characteristics then describe them aloud. In our other lesson students learn why/how leaves change color and transferred the natural pigments onto paper. 5th graders learn about chlorophyll, its benefit to the plant and humans; then they get to do leaf rubbings.
Happy Indigenous People's Day! Please spend some time watching this and sharing our invitation to see our 3 Sisters garden and potluck in person this Thursday. Just a pronunciation note: Haudenosaunee (Hoe-dee-no-SHOW-nee), meaning "People of the Longhouse."
Big crowd! Big CRUNCH. Most of the apples were from Blackman Homestead. Varieties included: golden delicious, Paula red, jonamac and NJ greening.
Garden Club meets after school Thursdays (except if it's raining). See dates in gnome flyer. ALL GRADES WELCOME Pickup time is 4:15pm It's a BIG enthusiastic group; any teens or adults that can help manage our clubbers.
All these 5th graders learned all about photosynthesis in 4th grade--they even remembered chlorophyll is the reason leaves are green. Students were able to break the leaf tissue to rub out the chlorophyll and other pigments found in petals of flowers.
