Jardin Estella de Tolson

This lesson uses the children’s book The Seed and the Giant Saguaro to teach about plant and wildlife habitat in the Sonoran Desert. It includes story reading, discussion, a field experience, writing, and drawing.
Students will watch and discuss the video Corn shouldn't be food, but it is.  Questions should as the contributions of various cultures and ethnicity to our food chain and methods of planting and growing food.
The students will measure the surface of the tubs, to divide the space needed to plant the three variety of red, green lettuce and kale plants.  They will measure distances of each tub from the water source to determine various length of water tubing needed.
Class with do Outdoor education visiting the Jardin weekly to measure growth of plants, quality of each, compare sunlight being received by each tub, effects of impact the garden.