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Grade:
K-2
3-5
6-8
9-12
Information
for Teachers
Discover Plants: Top to Bottom
This unit consists of a two- to three-week in-classroom study that is
paired with a trip to the Garden. Teachers wanting to participate in
this program are required to go through an orientation with Garden
staff.
In the classroom and at Georgia Southern Botanical Garden, direct
experiences with seeds, trees, vegetables and plants students have
collected allow them to explore the ways plants are alike and different.
They compare, describe and measure the roots, stems and leaves of many
plants, noting both the diversity in size, shape and color and the
similarity in function of each part. After completing the unit, students
will know that green plants are living things that require sun, water,
air and soil to grow, and that most plants have roots, stems, and leaves
as parts.
Click here
for a copy of the
Discover Plants
unit.
Plants and Me: Living Together
This unit consists of a two- to three-week in-classroom study that is
paired with a trip to the Garden. Teachers wanting to participate in
this program are required to go through an orientation with Garden
staff.
In this unit, students plant and tend their own cotton and wheat plants,
cook with and savor flavorful herbs, explore their homes and
neighborhoods for plants and for items made from plants, and discover
the gardening and plant collections a Georgia Southern Botanical Garden.
Through their activities, they see that plants play an essential role in
their community, greening their parks and yards, providing foods at the
grocery, books for the library, lumber for buildings and clothing to
wear.
Click here for
a copy of the
Plants and Me: Living Together unit.
Diversity of Life: Plants Alike and Different
Through an investigation that begins in the classroom and continues at
Georgia Southern Botanical Garden, students discover the many shapes,
textures, colors, forms and structures that exist in the plant world. They
explore the diversity of seeds as they describe, sort and plant them, and
observe their growth. As students gather leaves and group them in various
ways, they note similarities and differences and develop their observation
skills and their ability to describe the similarities and differences they
see in the plant world. As students consider different ways to organize
their observations, they construct an introductory understanding of the
framework for our plant classification system.
Beginning August 2006, there is a $2 per
participant fee in Garden educational programs to cover
programming costs. In case of limited resources, please
contact
Carolyn Altman at 912.486.7816.
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