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The kitchen and garden inspire, inform and enhance classroom sessions – learning the science behind the life cycle of the plants they grow; creatively writing about the taste, smell and texture of the meals they cook; using geometry to plan a garden bed and drawing on food as an inspiration for artwork; kitchen garden kids really benefit from having real-world examples at their fingertips.
Preparing for the Spring Fair at Collingwood College, VIC
In the lead-up to their Spring Fair, students at Collingwood College prepare signs for their kitchen garden.
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Creating a home for frogs - Teesdale PS
Teesdale Primary School, Victoria, found a frog in their garden. Follow the story in pictures as they use this opportunity to engage students in exploring perimeter and area, volume, layout and design considerations. They finish their pond, create a time capsule and start thinking about a berry garden next...
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Numeracy Integration - Teesdale PS
This excerpt from a longer presentation by Merron Southall of Teesdale Primary School, Victoria, was created for Kitchen Garden Schools in 2010. It shows just some of the connections that can be made between domains of learning and a host of fantastic classroom activities using the kitchen and the garden for numeracy outcomes.
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Curriculum Integration - Elizabeth Downs PS
This presentation from Elizabeth Downs PS in South Australia provides a fabulous example of integration across the curriculum areas. It shows how a Year 5-6 class linked garden and kitchen activities to literacy, numeracy, information technology, science, design, geography and SOSE. It is quite a long presentation, but gives a very good example of the many ways the Kitchen Garden can add relevance and provide depth to students’ classroom studies.
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Curriculum Integration - East Maddington PS
East Maddington PS, Western Australia, show how they have integrated the Kitchen Garden Program with their classroom curriculum. These slides cover some of the ways in which they manage the garden classes, and show how links are made to core learning areas in visual arts, media, SOSE, maths and science.
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Program Growth - Bertram Primary School
Bertram Primary School is a growing, new school. They began the Kitchen Garden Program in 2010 with a head start because they already had a kitchen garden growing. They show how their experience and approach changed as they became involved in the Program, linking the garden to curriculum and finding greater support in the school community.
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Curriculum Integration - Montello Primary School kitchen garden EOIs
In an engaging way of integrating the school curriculum with Kitchen Garden program learnings, Year 5/6 students were invited to apply for ‘positions’ in the kitchen and garden at Montello, Tasmania. Each student wrote an ‘expression of interest’, detailing why they wanted to work in the kitchen or garden, their experience and skills, and why they were excited by the Program. Each child made an appointment time for an interview with their classroom teacher, Kitchen and Garden Specialists and Program Coordinator. The panel was so impressed by the applicants’ enthusiasm that all of them were successful!
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