Planting A Garden Unit

Abstract

Planting vegetables and melons have always been a way of survival for Native Americans. Gardening has become a dying tradition due to the dominant society influences, such as fast food franchise, restaurants, grocery stores, and premade heat up food, along with this, brought obesity, diabetes, high blood pressures, and unhealthy food habits. If students can start learning how to plant and grown their own food, then it may increase physical activities, but more importantly, families can eat more homegrown healthy vegetables and melons.

The Planting a Garden Unit starts in the classroom by teacher modeling, guiding, and building confidence for students to independently create a home garden with family. An extended activity for students is to build a raised bed or garden surrounded with a fence to plant some vegetables or melons, so it can encourage families to eat healthier, increase physical activity, and decrease obesity. I would like students to see number and operations, number sense, geometry, and measurements in building a garden and how it may apply during planting and harvesting