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Distance Learning with living and nonliving/planting a seed in an anywhere garden! PLEASE READ: This is a PDF file! It was made as a PDF so it could be put into different platforms for digital learning. ALSO - This lesson is built for kindergarten students to fit their standard on living and nonliving. This lesson can be sent home to parents to complete with their child. IT DOES REQUIRE A SEED OR PLANT TO DO THIS LESSON!!! THIS LESSON WOULD NEED TO BE COMPLETED WITH AN ADULT. It is not a student challenge by themselves! THIS LESSON has the student plant a seed or plant as their living item!!!! DO NOT BUY if you do NOT have a way to get children seeds!!! It is not interactive.

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It is a lesson that can be sent to parents to work with their students at home as a fun way to learn about living and nonliving. (It is not an independent challenge for kindergarten students - does require a parent) It can be uploaded into Google Classroom as a PDF to use or other platform. It is just meant to guide and direct students and parents as they work at their own pace! There are links to give students a better understanding of living and nonliving, how seeds grow, and the book The Anywhere Farm. Then it gives students the challenge, materials, constraints, and planning. Students and families are asked to engineer an anywhere garden/farm at their house by engineering a place to plant a seed. They can get creative....but basically they are building "something" to plant a seed in that all of its needs can be met (soil, sun, water). They are also asked to email a video or pictures with an explanation of what they engineered as their anywhere gardens. They can email to you the teacher! They can simply use scrap paper to plan and design! This is meant to teach a standard for students that may not have been taught yet in their own classroom. It is also meant to be a fun and engaging way for students to learn about living and nonliving. And...my hope is that it takes some pressure off of parents...in that it is not a worksheet...but a way for kids to use their own thinking to come up with a solution to the problem incorporating their new knowledge of simple machines.

At my school, we are doing this two ways! (Getting seeds to our students)

1. We are leaving seeds at the front of our school for students to pick up if needed.

2. We have one teacher that is mailing all of her students a seed packet and sweet note of encouragement! All kids LOVE mail and an entire seed packet would be so much fun!

This also meets Georgia Science Standards of Excellence - SKL1

This resources includes the following:

*Links to the story: The Anywhere Farm

*Links to video on living and nonliving

*Links to video on how seeds grow

*Challenge

*Constraints

*Materials list

*Planning

*Teacher/Parent Notes

*Living and nonliving sort for items at home and printable worksheet for review if needed. It can also be used to have conversation on the standard and not printed to be completed as a worksheet. It is a cut and paste worksheet.

I create these resources to be used in my own classroom! I teach from this very same file! It is a good visual for students and if you were to be observed by administration. It helps to guide you with the lesson and gives the students a visual of what is expected. I work super hard on these lessons because I want my students to be engaged, have fun, and enjoy learning while they are in my classroom! I try to create real-world lessons where students have to engineer and design the solution.
It also gives them something to take home to hopefully explain the "process" of what they learned to adults at home! Please feel free to ask my questions and leave helpful feedback!! Thank you so much!!!

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