| Culminating Activity: Gardening Project The first grade students will work with a class of older students to improve the soil in the garden outside of our classroom. The first grade students will decide what materials are needed to improve the soil and collect those materials. Working with the older students, they will add the new materials to the soil and prepare the garden for planting. The first grade students, with the help of the older students, will research which flowers would attract butterflies to the garden. The plants could either be started from seed or purchased. All of the students will plant flowers in the garden to help beautify the school grounds. The first grade students will also look at the erosion and flooding at one corner of the garden. They will determine the cause of the problem and see if they can solve it. The gardening project could be extended to other parts of the school grounds or to other places in the community.
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