Project at a Glance :

This is a project for 10th-12th graders incorporating Geometry, Personal Finance, and Environmental Science skills. They will use what they have learned in these classes to design and plan a community garden.
 
Driving Question:

How can Allendale High School students build a community garden to benefit the community and students?  

Standards:

• Students will calculate area, perimeter, and volume of various geometric shapes to design garden plots
• Students will research and select suitable plants for the community garden based on climate, cost, and maintenance requirements
• Students will create a detailed budget for the garden project, including cost for material and plants.
• Students will present their garden design and budget plan to school leadership, demonstrating their understanding through blueprints or models.

Team / Culture Building:

• Creative DNA or Creative Types activity​

• What do you value?
• Me Cube or App Time

Entry Event:

• Goosechase scavenger hunt

Stakeholders:

Empathy Building:

• Stakeholder Map - students worked with their groups to come up with stakeholders that would be affected by the solution to the driving question.

Inquiry / Need to Knows:

• Students created a Need to Know list.
• Students sent a survey out to gather information from stakeholders.

Incubation:

• How would _____ solve it? - students put themselves in the shoes of different people/businesses to think about how they might answer the driving question. Students thought about how Countryside Greenhouse, landscapers, construction people, Amazon, etc would answer the question. 

• Idea Quota protocol - students generated solution ideas on sticky notes.​​

• Students made lists about potential solutions framing their feedback with the sentence starters: I Like, I Wish, What If.​

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Solution Building:

• Dot Voting
• Saturate & Group​

• $100 test​

• Common Themes:

Authentic Audience:

• Students​
• Teachers
• Administrators

Final Presentation:

• Click on Padlet to see full presentation details.

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​Reflection and Feedback:

• Audience members filled out a feedback form.​

      "I enjoyed this project ( making a community garden). I liked it the most because I could get really creative with it and there were so many great ideas we all had. Some of these ideas I would actually volunteer for." Allendale HS Student

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