Description: Students investigate when different crops can be sown, grown and harvested in their region. They use their findings to create a seasonal garden calendar that shows what can be grown and harvested throughout the year.
Intention:Students learn how seasonal crop cycles can be used to plan a garden that provides a continuous supply of food throughout the year.
Before the lesson:
Introduction
Choose crops
Research
Students find and record:
Create the almanac
Students turn their research into a visual seasonal calendar. They choose how they want to organise and present their information, for example as:
They show when their selected crops are sown, grown and harvested using colours, symbols, drawings, seed-packet labels or other creative elements.
Encourage students to make their almanac clear, useful and visually engaging, so that another gardener could use it to plan what to grow.
Share & reflect
Ask:
| Investigate | Create |