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This unit focuses on the positive efforts my kindergarten students will make in their local community by altering the existing environment through clean-up efforts and organic community gardening. The children will integrate their existing study of animal life and ecosystems with the study of the physical environment surrounding their school. Working with the land in and around the school facility, the children will also begin their study of plant life to coincide with their continued study of ecosystems and environment. The children will be educated in the areas of relative plant and animal life, natural pesticides, and animal homes. The information gathered throughout the unitís lessons and projects will be collected in multiple HyperStudio® stacks, allowing for future reference by my kindergartners and other students.
An organic community vegetable garden will also be planted and maintained, following the same concepts of environmental awareness as learned through past projects. The concept of ecosystems will be revisited on a larger scale as humans are directly involved in the consumption of the gardenís produce.
(Recommended for Elementary Science and Computer, grades K-5)