STEAM - Design an Organic Garden

We encourage you to teach STEAM both through and between disciplines (transdisciplinary).

This lesson could be used across multiple strands of the curriculum, including Science, Maths, and Visual Arts. Consider focusing on a curriculum strand that will complement other areas of learning you and your students are working on.

Syllabus outcomes: ST1-10LW, ST1-11LW, ST1-9ES, STe-5WT, STe-9ME, STe-10ME, ST1-5WT, ST1-10LW, ST1-11LW, ST1-12MW, ST1-13MW, ST1-14BE, ST1-15I, ST1-16P, VAS1.1, VAS1.2, MA1‑1WM, MA1‑3WM, MA1-9MG, MA1-11MG, MA1-14MG, MA1-15MG.

General capabilities: Literacy, Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Time required: 120 mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – students’ competency in completing the construction element of this task will depend on their experiences with creating models and the level of development of their fine motor skills.

• device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Organic Farm Worksheet (one per student)
• Vegetable Garden Design Challenge Sheet (printed A3 or projected for the class to view)
• Vegetable Garden Design Sketch Worksheet (one per student)
• Vegetable Garden Reflection Questions (printed A3 or projected for the class to view)
• icy-pole sticks, pre-cut into 10, 5 and 3 cm lengths
• scissors for the teacher to cut icy-pole sticks
• tacky glue (recommended one bottle per 3 students). Unlined Boxboard (one sheet per student)
• art Smocks (one per student)
• fine tip markers (optional)
• extra Icy-pole sticks (optional)
• Icy-pole Construction Sheet (optional).

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• communication
• creativity
• critical thinking
• cultural understanding
• ethical understanding
• problem solving
• social skills.

This is an original Cool+ lesson.