#GrowingLearners: Plant a seed; watch it grow – #WhatLearningLooksLike

The OCDSB, in partnership with Just Food, Ottawa Good Food Box, The Ottawa Farm School, and the OCDSB Food Network, are planting seeds with our students for #OCDSBLearnAtHome.

Garden Guide

How to Garden in Ottawa: the Community Gardening Network of Ottawa has created an easy beginner guide on the basics of gardening in the Ottawa region (in 5 languages). Start with the basics needed to set up a community garden – from soil, composting and seeds to harvesting and preparing for the winter.

CGN Garden Guide – English (pdf, 2.5 MB)
Le guide du jardinier – French (pdf, 2.2 MB)
Guía para huertos – Spanish (pdf, 2.1 MB)
دليل البستن ة – Arabic (pdf 2.4 MB)
渥太华菜园指南 – Mandarin (pdf 2.5 MB)

Garden:

(Before Planting):

• Read Patricia and the Pea Shoot (available in the activity guide; link provides further experiential learning with your garden)
• Make seed pots out of toilet paper rolls (p.112)
• Make seed pots out of newspaper

(Planting / after planting):

• Jardin de l’Education – page 63 – read Seed Yoga Story
• Jardin de l’Education – page 125 – read “This is my garden” rhyme

Other:

• Lesson Plan
• Edible Schoolyard Project’s Growing from Food Scraps Activity

If Internet:

• Read Aloud: Eric Carle’s book The Tiny Seed (gives the concept of what a plant needs to grow)