Growing a Garden

Students plant a garden and keep track of it. In this geometrical garden lesson, students collect data from their garden twice a week. They graph their finding and figure out how many square feet of growing space each person needs for food.

Give plants the best place to grow. Given constraints on plant spacing, pupils design a raised bed garden using graph paper, then calculate the perimeter, surface area, and volume. They use the provided costs of lumber and soil to...

Even if your name isn't Mary, we'll still ask you, "How does your garden grow?" Given verbal and tabular information about the number of seeds planted in two gardens, future gardeners and mathematicians determine whether or not the...

Learners explore the problem of maximizing area. In this lesson,They investigate a classic problem situation requiring maximization of area. Numbers are input into a table, a scatterplot is generated, and conclusions are drawn. This...

Students engage in a study of area and finding the dimensions needed to construct a fence for a garden. They apply algebraic concepts and geometry to the problem while using the Texas Instruments graphing calculator. The activity...

Exponential growth is modeled by learners as they analyze and interpret the data presented in this real-life scenario centered on the destructive invasion of the Giant African Land Snail. Learners get a touch of history and practice...

Students brainstorm healthy food choices. In this health science lesson, students calculate how much of each food group they need daily. They plan a menu based on the "MyPyramid for Kids" food guide.

What color does your garden grow? Learners manipulate the number of flowers of two colors in two garden plots. They determine the probabilities of choosing a particular color of a flower in a given plot. Scholars find the relationship of...

Learners discover how to plan a vegetable garden. Each student take responsibility for growing one vegetable from seed, to transplanting the seedling into the soil, and providing the plant with light, moisture, temperature and healthy soil.