lesson plans'book about gardening at school for younger and older pupils

1. Teaching in practice ‘How to set up a school garden?’ by Erasmus+, Stay 3E, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0

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LESSON PLAN
Lesson plan no 1 Country France
Course / subject “How to set up a school garden?”
Topic Planting a tree
Lesson title How to plant a plum tree ?
Level /Age Level 1 – 6/10 years old Lesson duration 90 minutes
Procedure
1. Dig a hole and put water in the bottom
2. Comb the roots of the clod
3. Put the clod in the hole
4. Refill the hole
5. Spread stall and the soil around the tree
6. Dig a groove around the tree to keep water whan it’s raining
7. Tamp the soil around the tree
8. Water
Materials
 A tree
 A pickaxe
 A shovel
 A hoe

Reference
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs9gQY7wYCk
 https://prezi.com/mp-kq92vtdwc/erasmus-stay-3e-how-to-plant-a-plum-
tree/

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Lesson objectives
 Pupils learn about the different geometrical shapes in practice.
 calculate the length and the width of a surface and measure them
 learn to use Maths in everyday activities and in real situations
 manage to cooperate and work in groups in order to create something in common
 realise that they can learn Maths biomatically inside and outside the classroom
Procedure
Step 1
Shape hunt in the classroom. Kids choose a card that the teacher offers that shows a
particular geometrical shape and separated in groups search for objects in the classroom
that have a shape similar to the one in the card they chose. They touch and notice the
objects they found and try to say some characteristics of the particular shape(it is round, it
has sharp angles etc.). Then the different groups find similarities and differences among
these shapes.
Step 2
Kids watch a video about the different names and characteristics of the shapes.
The teacher suggests to the kids to create signs in different shapes for the school garden
veggies that they had already planted earlier on . They use their rulers to measure the
Lesson plan no 2 Country Greece
Course / subject ‘“How to set up a school garden?”
Topic Preparing the garden
Lesson title A scarecrow and signs for our school garden
Level /Age Level 1 Lesson duration 90 minutes

4. length and the width of coloured cardboards to cut triangles, rectangles, circles.
Step 3
They in groups draw the picture of the vegetable they want to put the sign on to and write its
name as well. After that, they use their rulers to measure the length of the sticks they will
use for their sign.
Step 4
Another group of kids with the help of the teacher try to create a scarecrow for the garden.
So they use a meter to choose logs of the same length and width in order to create its body.
Others use cloth and plastic bags to create a circular head and so on.
Step 5
Kids and their teacher carry the signs and the scarecrow in the school garden and
everything is put in the right place.
Materials
rulers, pencils,colours,scissors,cardboards,glue, old clothes,small wooden logs
Reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOJk8650Va4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r156y9KWOkU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR89nToMnME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JAm4-1azsU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss6dTrtcLFU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cjGMEpIMw0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMkyXGlvn34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzGWcCh_6WY

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Lesson plan no 3 Country Italy
Course / subject ‘ “How to set up a school garden?”
Topic Maths in the garden
Lesson title Let’s measure in the garden!
Level /Age LEVEL 1 Lesson duration 90 MINUTES
Lesson objectives
 Understand the concept of distance
 Understand the concept of perimeter.
 Measure school garden perimeter.
Procedure
Discuss the definition of distance by talking directly in front of your students and then
moving some distance away from them.
Explain that you are now talking from a distance.
You may want to get even further away from your students to model the concept of
distance.
Measure the distance between you and various students, and have students make
judgments about which distances are long or short, far away or close by.
Next, showing some shapes, introduce the word “perimeter,” or the distance around an
object.
Walk in a series of straight lines, because perimeter is based on measuring polygons
(closed figures) with straight sides (squares, rectangles, hexagons, etc.).
Have a group of students follow your perimeter path.

7. Go outside and try to measure the perimeter of the school garden.
Use wooden sticks to mark off the perimeter.
Once you reach the starting point, cut the yarn.
You should have a piece of yarn that measures the distance of the perimeter.
Go back to the classroom.
Use rulers inside the classroom to measure the yarn, then calculate the perimeter.
Using rulers and sticks create math problems about measurement conversions.
Materials
For the teacher:
Yarn or string
Wooden sticks
For the students:
Helping hands
Listening ears
Reference
https://www.education.com/lesson-plan/finding-perimeter/
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/geometry/shapeshoot/PerimeterShapesShoot.htm

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Lesson objectives
 to get familiar with the build / elements of a flower based on crocus
 to practise counting: summing and subtracting within 100, multiplying and
dividing within 30
 to name a few earliest spring flowers
 to name and describe a few protected species of flowers
 to develop vocabulary connected with environment protection
 to make full sentences – spoken descriptions
 to name different parts of plants and cups of plants (flowers as a part)
 to sing the song ‘I am a gardener’
Procedure
 Greeting. Introducing the topic of the lesson
 Learning the song ‘I am a gardener’
 Watching the presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rANDOonihZg
 Discussing the presentation
 Presenting some photos concerning the build of a flower
 Discussing the way of pollinating flowers by insects
 Going to the school garden to see crocuses in bloom which were grown in
autumn by the pupils
 Watching flowers with magnifying glass, finding pistils and stamens
Lesson plan no 4 Country Poland
Course / subject “How to set up a school garden?”
Topic ‘Stay 3E gardening classes’
Lesson title Spring flowers
Level /Age Beginners Lesson duration 90 minutes

10.  Making attempts in taking some pollen from one flower’s anther to another
flower’s pistil
 Returning to the classroom and collecting notes about gardening activities
 Doing a few exercises on practice copies and doing interactive exercises
 Summing up the lesson, collecting information from the students
 Finishing the lesson with the song ‘I am a gardener’
Materials
Crocuses in bloom grown in autumn in the school garden by the pupils, cosmetic
sticks, magnifying glass, boards with the collected information and pictures,
notebooks, practice copies
Follow-up : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rANDOonihZg
interactive exercises: http://www.epodreczniki.pl/reader/c/238784/v/7/t/student-
canon/m/KL2_ORE_V7_WIOSNA_2_3_31_140_p3
Reference
http://slide.ly/view/5144110f293d1cb77503babd2c707196
Take Home Tasks
practice copies

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Lesson plan no 5 Country Romania
Course / subject “How to set up a school garden?”
Topic Maths in practice, measuring, calculating
Lesson title Problem Solving
Level /Age Level 1 Lesson duration 45 minutes
Lesson objectives
• to develop of exploration / investigation and problem solving
• students will be able to use mathematics in order to arrange the school garden.
Procedure
INTRODUCTION (5 minutes)
 Teacher presents a letter from our headmistress who asks for help in
rearranging our school garden:
"Dear children,
I heard you are very good at Maths. I would like you to help us make the most
beautiful school garden. Our schoolyard has 3350 square meters, 1700 of them are
used for Gymnastics/Physical education. How can you divide the remaining land in
equal parts of flowers, trees/shrubs and grass? What else would you bring into the
garden to make it more beautiful?
I am convinced that you will succeed!
Yours
sincerely, Virginia
Arghiropol”
 Tell students that today we use concepts learned in mathematics to solve
problems in everyday life.
EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION/TEACHER MODELLING (5 minutes)
• Updating knowledge about gardens - acquired in Science lessons, based on a
Power Point

12. material.
• Updating knowledge about solving problems.
GUIDED PRACTICE/INTERACTIVE MODELLING (5 minutes)
 Children reformulate the problem presented in the letter and write it on the
blackboard and in their notebooks:
Schoolyard measures 3350 square meters, of which 1700 are used for sports. How
can we divide what remains to include equal parts of flowers, shrubs and grass?
What else would you bring into the garden to make it more beautiful?
 Children examine the problem using the method What I know / What I
want to know / What I learned.
INDEPENDENT WORK (5 minutes)
Give students worksheets to complete and allow them time to work on them.
TEAMWORK TIME (20 minutes)
 Divide the class into five groups: circles, squares, rectangles,
triangles and trapezoids.
 Each group presents the ideas about rearranging the garden,
usingdata obtained from solving the problem.
REVIEW AND CLOSING (5 minutes)
 GALLERY METHOD: Each group presents the drawings.
Materials
 Slide-show
 Paper
 Pencils, rulers
 Laptop, projector
Reference
https://www.education.com/lesson-plans/first-grade/math/
https://www.time4learning.com/scope-sequence/1st-math.shtml
Teacher – Maria Forgaci
Class 4A

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Lesson plan no 6 Country Spain
Course / subject “How to set up a school garden?”
Topic ‘Stay 3E gardening classes’
Lesson title Getting products in our school garden
Level /Age Lesson 1. Level 1
Lesson 2. Level 2
Lesson duration 90 minutes
(2 lessons)
LESSON PLAN
Lesson objectives
● To weigh strawberries collected from our school garden.
● To calculate their real price.
● To calculate volume.
● To calculate mass.
● To calculate garden areas.
● To difference width and long.
● To know areas formula.
● To read and understand a mathematical problem related with measure.
Procedure
Lesson 1. Level 1
● Greeting. Introducing the topic of the lesson. Talking about typical products
in Aranjuez (the city where we live).
● Brainstorming about our school garden and the products we are going to
get.
● Going to the garden and observing which products we can collect.
● Collecting the strawberries and weighting them with teachers help.
● Give each group some strawberries to weight and calculate how much
money we could get selling the strawberries.
● Giving students coins and notes (school material), they must take the exact
quantity to pay them.
● Children are going to size in feet and metres. They will go to the school
garden. They will measure in feet and metres width and long garden areas.
They will write and draw all the measures in their notebooks .
● They will understand the difference between width and long in a real

16. situation.
Lesson 2. Level 2
● Greeting. Introducing the topic of the lesson.
● Brainstorming about our school garden.
● The teacher will explain area formulas. Later, they will go to the school
garden with a measuring meter. They will write all the measures of different
parts of our school garden. They will calculate the areas.
● They will have to calculate how many m3 of substratum we should buy for a
gardening zone according with its measure.
● They will calculated the money we should pay for that substratum.
Materials
Lesson 1.
Baskets to collect the strawberries.
Instruments to weigh the products.
School material: coins and notes (Euros).
Lesson 2.
Measuring meter. Notebook.
Reference
Our math books.

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Lesson objectives
Pupils
 obtain Math skills as they measure the growth of plants,trees and plan for the
dimensions of the school garden
 combine both math and science concepts by comparing and contrasting the
success of different plants
 Cultivate relationships through classroom decision making and teamwork
 Share responsibilities in order to creat the design of the garden in groups
 Learn the meaning of perimeter and area in real life situations like measuring
the dimensions of the garden.
 Realise that Maths can be fun when it needs pupils’ discovery ,concentration
, cooperation and it is taught in a pleasant environment like the garden
 Understand that they learn easier in such an environment when they discover
knowledge than when they find it already made for them inside the classroom
Lesson plan no 7 Country Greece
Course / subject “How to set up a school garden?”
Topic School gardening
Lesson title Measure and design our school garden
Level /Age Level 2 Lesson duration 180
minutes(separated
in two days)

18. Procedure
STEP 1
Pupils are separated into two groups. One takes cards with shapes (rectangles,
circles etc.) that have outlined the perimeter of the shape and the other group takes
shapes that are filled in. So they really understand the difference between the two
different meanings. Each one tries to find another kid who has the same shape and
colour but it is outlined differently and they have to see and say what the difference
between the two almost the same shapes are (one shows the perimeter and the
other the area)
STEP 2
Next thing they have to do is to measure the dimensions of each shape by using
their rulers .They note the results them on the shapes.
STEP 3
It is time to introduce them the formulas we use for calculating the perimeter of a
shape and the ones for the area. They watch a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of7mFp_EmzE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrVsIZovH-c
They do lots of examples in worksheets
STEP 4
They move one step further to learn how to calculate the perimeter and the area of a
combined shape. They again watch videos to help them more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN0skzqpzHU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb_GYmtA45o
STEP 5
Time for action. The kids take the meters they brought from home , notebooks,
rulers ,coloured pencils and go to the school garden where separated in groups
measure the perimeter and the area of it. Of course the shape of the garden is not a
perfect shape but a combination of different ones. They have already learnt how to
find the area and the perimeter of combined shapes.
They also measure the flower beds and the length of the roots of plants like carrots,
beetroots, lettuces which are ready to take them and prepare a healthy salad with
them.
STEP 6
(the next day) During Maths lesson the teacher announced that they are going to
have an arts and crafts lesson with mathematic theme. They are going to design
their school garden by following the measurements they did the day before. Each
group of pupils take one A3 size piece of paper where they have to plan the shape
of the garden, calculate its perimeter and its area.
STEP 7
Next project is to design details of their garden on the piece of paper given .In order
to get an idea of how to do it they watch presentations on the computer of the

19. classroom of how professional garden architects work and what symbols they use in
order to show their designs to their clients.
http://www.greenart.gr/meleth-sxediash
They follow these sketches and create their own unique ones. The result of their
effort is magnificent !!!
Materials
notebooks, meter, rulers, coloured pencils, pieces of big size paper
Reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slzAm1tTV5A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_6XOBpoDz4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCdxURXMdFY

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Lesson plan no 8 Country Italy
Course / subject ‘ “How to set up a school garden?”
Topic Maths in the garden
Lesson title Perimeter and area
Level /Age 11 years old Lesson duration 2 hours
Lesson objectives
 Use common units of measure.
 Measure the perimeter of the school garden.
 Measure the area of the school garden.
Procedure
Pupils decide how they will measure the garden (wheel or tape, a piece of rope).
Measure a part of the school garden.
Once measurements have been recorded ask pupils to transfer this data onto cm
squared paper.
Decide on a scale (10cm:1cm ) and demonstrate scaling measurements to squared
paper.
Work in groups and share out the measuring, then collect the results.
Pupils have to calculate the perimeter and the area of the school garden
Pupils compare results

22. Materials
Wheel or tape
A piece of rope
Squared paper
Reference
https://www.worksheetworks.com/math/geometry/measuring-figures/perimeter-area.html

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Lesson objectives
 The use of field and cuboid volume calculation in a practical situation
 Practising written calculations with decimals and natural numbers
 Developing work skills using the project method
 Developing group work skills
Procedure
 Welcoming and writing the topic of the lesson
 Giving the job cards with a task which should be done
 To deal the measuring tapes out
 Dividing the class into groups of 3-4 pupils
 Going out into a school garden and sharing the flower boxes between the
groups
 Students measure the boxes and make calculations on the work cards
 Going back to the classrooms and finishing all works
 Presenting results by each group
 Summing up the lesson, collecting information from the students
Materials
Work card, measuring tape
WORK CARD: Ex.1
You have to measure the external dimensions of the box.
All dimensions use to answer these questions:
a) How much soil do you have to buy to fill in all your box?
b) How much will you pay for soil if it is sells in bags with a capacity of 50 l. and
one bag costs 6,50 zloty.
Lesson plan no 9 Country Poland
Course / subject “How to set up a school garden?”
Topic
Cuboid volume calculations used in a practical task.
Lesson title
How much soil do you need to fill the flower boxes in a school
garden?
Level /Age 6 class/12years Lesson duration
1h in the school
garden

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Lesson plan no 10 Country Romania
Course / subject “How to set up a school garden?” -
Topic Maths in practice, measuring, calculating
Lesson title Quadrilaterals Areas
Level /Age
Level 2 (A2
and above)
Lesson duration 90 minutes
Lesson objectives
Upon completion of this lesson, students will:
• have been introduced to quadrilaterals and their properties.
• have learned the terminology used with quadrilaterals.
• have practiced creating particular quadrilaterals based on specific
characteristics of the quadrilaterals.
Procedure
Standards -Geometry
 Analyze characteristics and properties of two- and three-dimensional geometric shapes
anddevelopmathematicalargumentsaboutgeometricrelationships
 Describe, classify, and understand relationships among types of two- and three-
dimensional objects using their defining properties
 Understand relationships among the angles, side lengths, perimeters, areas, and
volumes of similar objects
 Create and critique inductive and deductive arguments concerning geometric ideas and
relationships,suchascongruence, similarity,andthePythagoreanrelationship
 Usevisualization,spatialreasoning,andgeometricmodellingtosolveproblems

27.  drawgeometricobjectswithspecifiedproperties,suchassidelengthsorangle
measures
AREA OF THE PARALLELOGRAM
Theareaofaparallelogramisequaltotheproductofthelengthofasidebandits
correspondingheighth. A =b∙h
Application:
Determine the yard area of a householder which has the shape of a parallelogram
with a side length of 40 m and 22 m corresponding to her.
AREA OF THE RECTANGLE
Areaof arectangleisequal to theproductof length Land width, l. A =L∙l
Application:
Onland parallelogram shaped ourhouseholder who builds ahousefootprint is a
rectanglewithalengthof12mandwidthof9.5m.Thelandareawilloccupythe
house.

28. RHOMBOID AREA
The area of a rhombus is equal to half the product of its diagonal lengths d1 and d2.
Application:
Ourmaninfrontofthehousearrangedaflowerbedasarhombuswithdiagonalsof4 m
and 2 m. What is its area?
SQUARE AREA
The area of a square is the square of the length of its side , l. A = l
2

29. Materials
 Slide-show
 Paper
 Pencils, rulers
 Laptop, projector
Reference
https://www.education.com/lesson-plans/
https://www.teacher.org/lesson-plans/
Maths Teacher – Virginia Arghiropol Class 7 A
Application:
every 5 kg of tomatoes, which is the total harvest obtained?
TRAPEZIUM AREA
The area of a trapezoid is equal to half the product of the combined length of itsbases
B, b and height h length of the trapezium.
Application:
basedthan7mandh=22m.Howmanykilosofgrassareneededtosowthisareaif 100
g seed sufficient for one square meter soil? How many boxes will buy 2 kg
householder will payand howthe seeds if 1 kg costs 5 euro?