Living Classroom Volunteers Needed
Living Classroom is taking root at Lynhaven School, providing 7 lessons to TK-3 students in September and October, with many more to come! The hands-on, inquiry based science, math, nutrition and social studies lessons take place in school gardens which provide a living laboratory where lessons are drawn from real-life experiences. All TK-3 teachers are participating. Lesson topics this fall include:
- human impact on their environment
- recording measurements of plants
- understand the relationship between numbers and quantities
- adaptations of plants and/or animals for survival
- photosynthesis
- producers and consumers
- functions of parts of plants
- decomposition and how nature recycles
- using the scientific method in a real live experiment to test a hypothesis
- habitats
- making bar graphs to represent data
- nutrition and healthy eating—fruits, vegetables and whole grains
The Program is seeking interested volunteers to be trained as docents or assistant docents or work with our garden manager to maintain the educational gardens. Docent training sessions start on Monday, September 10th from 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. and September 17th from 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. at Capri Elementary School, Room C-6. There will be an informational meeting on 8/30 from 9:00-10:00 in the Lynhaven Cafeteria.
For more information about the Living Classroom and to learn more about volunteering, contact the Living Classroom Campbell Program Manager Stefani Brandt at shawns [at] living-classroom.org or call 408-500-9911 and visit the website at www.living-classroom.org.