Active banners: 0 Visible banners: 0
Home
Teaching Materials
Educator Support
About
Donate
Login
Back to Teaching Resources
Why You Should Turn Your Lawn Into a Food Garden
Provided by:
NowThis Earth
|
Published on:
April 27, 2021
Videos
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Synopsis
This video explains why growing a food garden is a better alternative to maintaining a lawn, looking at examples in Orlando, Florida.
Students learn how to grow a food garden and its advantages for the gardener and the planet.
Related Teaching Resources
Related Teaching Resources
Subjects:
Biology
Authors:
NowThis Earth
Region:
North America, United States, Florida
Languages:
English
View Resource
Teaching Materials
Teaching Tips and Scientist Notes
Standards
Resource Type and Format
Teaching Tips
Scientist Notes
Positives
This video contains engaging visuals.
Accompanying text emphasizes important facts from the video.
It shows how policies have increased the number of home food gardens.
Prerequisites
Students should be familiar with lawns, fertilizer, pesticides, and lawnmowers.
There may be an ad before the video.
Differentiation & Implementation
Teachers could use this video to teach 6-8th graders about victory gardens.
Teachers could use this video to highlight the importance of policies and their role in mitigating climate change.
Teachers could use part 5:57-6:02 to describe how planting one’s own food helps to fight climate change.
Teachers could use part 6:54-7:07 to encourage students to plant some food and herb crops.
Click
here
for a lesson plan on food and carbon.
Scientist Notes
Teaching Tips
Standards
Resource Type and Format
Related Teaching Resources
All resources can be used for your educational purposes with proper attribution to the content provider.
Teaching Materials
Teaching Resources
Lessons, Units, and Activities
News for Students
Educator Support
Professional Development
Teacher Guides
Climate Change Explainers
Guidance for School Administrators
About
My Account
My Profile
My Library
Register
Donate