Learning Grows in School Gardens

Literature comes alive in Carson STEAM Magnet’s garden as students learn about the nutritional benefits of different parts of plants that we can eat. Mrs. Prince, our resident Food Corps Service Member, reads I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child, and asks students to make connections between the food growing in the garden, the food in our cafeteria, and the food on their dinner plates. Students think about the parts of the plants they choose at lunch in the salad bar and ask, “Am I eating… a root, stem, leaf, flower, fruit, or seed?”

Meanwhile up the road at Linda Vista STEAM Magnet School, third grade students learn about plant parts and participate in preparing healthy snacks in the garden with our FoodCorps volunteer Julie Prince. 

Across campus, fourth graders continue their STEAM unit on Erosion and Weathering by exploring the question: How does understanding how land is made and how it has changes over time help us prepare for our future? As part of their unit, they employ the processes scientists use to analyze phenomena and examine samples of different soils around campus to explore their properties and how they tie into erosion problems here at school.