We are starting a unit for project based learning and our focus question is: How do we as kindergarteners impact the environment and the lives of animals of our Washington D.C. community? This will serve our community by showing kids that their actions have positive and negative consequences for the environment.
We will be cultivating garden beds at our school. Students will learn that plants and animals have needs and often times those needs benefit each other. They will also understand that humans have the ability to support plant and animal survival by taking care of the environment. During our garden project, we will learn about how pollinators help plants, how compost benefits worms and the soil, how plants and animals benefit from all of these things and how they all work together. Students will be engaged in the project by helping weed and prepare the soil for planting, planting and maintaining the garden beds, collecting compost to be used in the garden bed which will feed worms in the soil.
