Prior Featured Lessons

Developing a School Garden: A school garden is an outdoor classroom; a living laboratory that provides authentic science-based learning experiences. These lessons also address the following California Standards for the Teacher Profession: 1.3; 2.2; 3.4, and 3.5.

Soil: Dig a little and you will learn a lot! We may walk all over it, take it for granted and treat it like dirt. However, it is SOIL, and our lives depend on it! Master Gardeners’ featured lessons for the winter quarter focus on increasing student awareness of the scientific phenomena of soil.

Lesson Grades TK-1: What is in Our Garden Bed?

(Pre-School Life Science 1.3; KEES3.A & E; 1LS1.A)

Lesson Grades 2-3: Exploring the Changing Surface of Land

(2-ESS2.A; 2-ESS1.C; 2-ETS1.C; 3-ESS2.D; 3-ESS3.B)

Lessons Grade 4-5: Impacts on Earth’s Systems-From Rocks to Soil

How is Soil Formed? (4ESS2.D; 5LS2.B)

What is the Ideal Soil for Growing Plants? (4ESS2.E; 5LS2.B; 5LS1.C)

Lessons Grades 6-8: Soil: Exploring Biodiversity and Soil Management

Soil is a Living System (MSLS2A: MSLS2B)

Biodiversity and Soil Health (MSLS2.C)

Soil pH-Where Chemistry and Biology Meet (MS LS2.C)

Pollination: Pollinator Week is an annual celebration held every June in support of pollinator health. These lessons focus on increasing student awareness of the scientific phenomena of pollination.

Grades TK-1: What Do Bees Need? (Pre-School Life Science 1.3; KLS1.C; 1LS1.A; 1LS1.D)

Grades 2-3: Plants and Insects Need Each Other (2LS4.D; 2LS2.A; 3LS3.A; 3LS1.B; 3LS4.C)

Grade 4-5: Why Do We Need Bees? (4LS1.A; 5LS2.A; 5LS1.C)

Grades 6-8: Pollination-Exploring Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystem

Pollen and Plant Reproduction (MSL1.A; MSLS1-B)

Pollinator-Plant Relationship (MSLS2.A)

Impacts on Pollinator-Plant Relationship (MSLS2.C)