Seminar: The Environment and the Five Senses: Engaging Young Minds with a Holistic Approach to Learning
Program: IECE
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Year of Publication: 2022
Abstract
The curriculum unit that I would like to develop during this seminar is called Composting for a Better Earth. I want to create an outdoor learning environment at my school that will allow students to compost and uses their product to grow their own food. The students will learn that composting is a natural way to recycle and teaches them to be good stewards of the Earth. Children will begin to understand nature as a transformation process and how composting benefits us all because it cleans up the earth’s ‘trash’ by recycling organic material and turning it back into rich soil so that new living things can grow. I want to include cooperating with the Navajo language, culture, family, and community members in this curriculum unit, observing, describing, using a microscope, documenting, graphing, thinking critically, discovering, creating a plan, and applying. We will use a hands-on approach to understand how composting benefits our community.