Growing Grades Through Gardens is going to incorporate real world applications of core academic standards in a hands on inquiry based manner.
An Abstract of the unit:
Students will receive a challenge to test claims made about their vertical growing system; their task will be to conduct a research experiment to verify a study that was conducted by the University of Mississippi. In designing and carrying out their experiments, students will develop skills in scientific inquiry, scientific communication and evidence based reasoning. The task challenges students to emulate the behaviors of adult scientists and think about how science can help address issues in their community.
As students learn about the scientific process through the design of original experiments, they learn that claims are strengthened by an abundance of data. in order to draw reliable conclusions, they must collect substantial amounts of data over the course of this long term research project. Students have the opportunity to dive deeply into their work as they ask questions, collect precise data, maintain their experiment and explore their curiosity.
An Abstract of the unit:
Students will receive a challenge to test claims made about their vertical growing system; their task will be to conduct a research experiment to verify a study that was conducted by the University of Mississippi. In designing and carrying out their experiments, students will develop skills in scientific inquiry, scientific communication and evidence based reasoning. The task challenges students to emulate the behaviors of adult scientists and think about how science can help address issues in their community.
As students learn about the scientific process through the design of original experiments, they learn that claims are strengthened by an abundance of data. in order to draw reliable conclusions, they must collect substantial amounts of data over the course of this long term research project. Students have the opportunity to dive deeply into their work as they ask questions, collect precise data, maintain their experiment and explore their curiosity.