Veggie+Garden+Student+Outline

=**Lesson 1:** Getting Organised= For the assignment Veggie Garden Project you must form a group of 4 and each choose from the following vegetable/plant.
 * week 1**
 * Tomatoes
 * Sunflowers
 * Lettuce
 * Radishes
 * Snow peas



Once each member of the group has chosen there vegetable/plant they are to research the conditions there vegetable/plant will be in and look at the following factors. certain resources such as youtube could be helpful to find videos on how to start a veggie patch. When you have finished your research about your vegetable/plant you must take your seeds to your allocated patch of soil and plant them with the knowledge you have just recieved from your research. Remember your vegetable garden is your groups responsiblities, no body elses.
 * How to care for it ?
 * How often to water it?
 * How much sun does it need?
 * Is there a particular soil requied?
 * How long will it take to develop?

The aim of this lesson is to make a start to your vegetable patch and start to become more knowledgable about what you are growing. =Lesson 2: Blog Time= Now that your vegetable garden is up and running you are required to set up a blog diary. This will include all the research you will be doing on your vegetable/plant and all other information you will be accessing about healthy diets and foods. Your blog enteries should consist of the following.
 * week 2**
 * Progress of your garden
 * steps involved in taking care of your garden
 * any reserach you have done on your vegetable/plant
 * any refelctions or thoughts you may have about your garden or what you have learnt
 * photos that you may have taken of your garden

You will be allocated a time to write in your blog each week about your progress. For this task you are required to blog on google blogs. An acccount has been set up in your name.

The aim of this lesson is to set up a blog so you can maintain a diary of your progress over the next few weeks.

=Lesson 3: Healthy Fruits and Vegetables= Week 3 Each student must check on there vegetable garden, water it if needed and take photos of any developments. Your finidings and progress must be uploaded to your weekly blog entry.

This lesson each student will recieve a Fruit and Vegetable work sheet. This sheet will enlighten the students on what fruit and vegetables are more healthy,which ones contain more sugar, protein ect. Information that the student will learn from the worksheet must be uploaded into the blogs.



The aim of this lesson is to become more informative about what teenagers like to indoldge in and how we should become more healthier eaters. =Lesson 4: Word Sleuth= Week 4 All students must check on there vegetable patch. Water them and make sure they are in the right condition. Upload your findings to your blog. Today you will be creating your own fruit and vegetable word sleuth! In order to do this there are several steps involved.
 * 1) create a list of fruit and vegetables ( aprrox 20- 25 words)
 * 2) jumble them up in your word sleuth, you can have some across, diagonal and backwards. Try and make some a little tricky.
 * 3) Once you have hidden your words in with random letters, double check that its right
 * 4) add some colour and pictures
 * 5) find a partner to swap with and see if you can crack their sleuth!
 * 6) upload your progress in your blogs

The aim of this lesson is to take a break from all the research and create a game that intertwines fruit and vegetables with fun !



=Lesson 5: Nutritional Characteristics= Week 5 You must check on your progress with your vegetable patch. It is nearly time for you to pull out your vegetables/plants, keep watering them and taking photos. dont forget to upload your findings on your blog !

Todays lesson is about Nutritional Characteristics. With the vegetable you have chosen you must research the nutrtional characteristics within your vegetable.
 * fiber content
 * calories
 * seeds
 * what it looks like internally and extrenally

Create a poster on your vegetable, with a picture of the internal and extrenal of the vegetable. Branching off the photo should be the nutritional characteristics. The posters will be on display for parent night.

The aim of this lesson is for students to become familour with the nutritional characteristics of there vegetable.

=Lesson 6: Atlast != week 6 Our vegetable patches are ready to be dug up! This is a very important process. All students must take a digital camera and photograph them taking the vegetables out. Once the vegatbles have been pulled out they must be hosed down so all the dirt is off and we can view tge final product.

Once you have cleaned your vegetable you must do a detailed blog entry about your vegetable. Talk about the process of growing it, how long it took etc. Upload photos of the final product to your blog.

The aim of this lesson was to finally see our vegetables fully developed and what happens after the long proccess of growing them.

=Lesson 7: Sensory Characteristics= week 7 Now that we have our final product the last thing you will be asked to do is to answer questions about the sensory characteristics. This can be done by Looking, feeling, seeing and smelling. Usuing our senses ! You must see how it smells, what it looks like, what it feels like and imagine what it tastes like ! we cant eat it just yet !

Your final blog must be created ! you must give a detailed desciption of what happend in the process of growing your vegetables. Also include your feelings. Were you impatient, dissapointed, pleased, happy with your results ? elaborate on what you think you did well and what you could have done better. Give yourself an evaluation in your blog.

The aim of this lesson was to allow the kids to use there senses to answer questions is regards to their vegetable.

=Lesson 8: Parent Night= week 8

Tonight it parent night ! our main feature will be our vegetable gardens ! you must have your vegetable placed on your desk ! along wit your laptop open up beside it with your blog on your screen. The posters that you drew will be placed around the room for display.

When parents arrive you must talk about your vegetable
 * what you learnt about the particular vegetable
 * what you learnt about growing and taking care of a vegetable
 * talk about your blogs and how you reported your progress each week
 * talk about what you discovered about healthy eating
 * describe how you felt at the end of the project.