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= Techno Teachers in Training (3TTT) = ====This is the home page for the EDN113 Living and Learning with Technology group 3TTT (3 Techno Teachers in Training). The aim of this group assignment is to explore technologies appropriate to teaching and learning, and create an authentic learning environment to share with other teachers.====

====** Curriculum alignment: **When I researched the comparison between the WA Department of Education syllabus to the Australian Curriculum (ACARA), I found the areas of English, mathematics, science and history (Foundation year to year 10) was noted as being developed progressively and the Australian Curriculum is to be adopted.==== ====For this assignment we have chosen 'creating a classroom vegetable garden' in order to recognise the basic needs of living things such as food and water. This is detailed in the Australian Curriculum under [|ACSSU002].====

** Target Group: ** The target group for our technology resource is TEACHERS!

 * Who is going to use the technology? ** We aim for students to use technology throughout this learning experience with the guidance and help of their teachers. the benefits of students using the technology is vital as it gives them confidence and allows them to develop new skills with technology. On the Resources page we have many interactive whiteboard resources that children can use to help develop their understanding of plant growth and the plant life cycle.

Introduction
====Teachers play a vital role in educating Foundation year (Pre-primary) students about how to observe and describe the behaviours and properties of everyday objects, materials and living things. They will develop an understanding that all living things have basic needs such as food and water, and just like themselves and living things around them. Students learn about the environment and we believe growing a vegetable garden is a great way for students to learn about plant growth, sustainability and the life cycle of a plant. Growing a vegetable garden is a great way to help students develop an understanding of plant growth, and can lead to further activities such as cooking with their garden produce and many more activities. Even though this resource is aimed at Pre-primary it can also be adapted for other year levels. This project requires planning lessons over an extended period of time depending on the desired outcomes. It involves ongoing learning from understanding about lifecycles and plant components, through to planting seeds, watching them grow and finally to planting them in the class vegetable garden. ====

Task Overview
====This activity involves creating a class vegetable patch where students initally learn about plants and lifecycles, then are divided into teams of three or four, where they sow different vegetable seeds and observe the growth and the changes to the seeds into seedlings, culminating at the end of the activity in planting their seedlings in the class vegetable garden.==== ====Students are expected to make observations, take progress photos or draw diagrams illustrating changes to their seeds and noting what care they need to give the seeds in order to make them grow and note them in a journal.==== ====At the end of the four week period, teams can then present their observations and learning to the class on chart paper showing: progress photos of seeds to seedlings, diagrams of what makes seeds grow, and what is needed to promote growth. ie water, sunlight, and safe environment.==== ====__Possible variations__: Each group could have a set of seeds sown in individual containers and treated in three different ways: provided water and sunlight, provided water with no light, provided sunlight with no water. This would further their understanding of the optimum conditions for living things to grow.====

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** References: **
Australia, E. s. (2012). ACARA Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority from @http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/

Images sourced from Google images 20 May 2012 - http://www.google.com.au/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi