This year we will be using Life Lab, a hands-on science project.  We will be doing a variety if activities and investigations.  Many will be bases in the garden - our Living Laboratory.   Most of these activities work best if the class is divided into small, adult-guided groups.  If you are able to set aside some time to assist, it would be greatly appreciated.  You don't need to be an expert, just enjoy gardening.  If you can spend one day, several days or make a longer commitment to our Life Lab, please contact me if you are able to assist or have any questions. 

In the first few weeks of school, we will begin our program with cooperative games, sensory awareness activities and the basics of digging, weeding and planting.

Assisting in the garden in only one way you can participate.  From time to time, I will send home notices of needed materials such as empty containers or old magazines.  Contributions like this are also needed and greatly appreciated.

I look forward to sharing the Life Lab Program with you.

Theme Connections
Structure - Function
There are many different kinds of structures in the natural world.  An object can be examined, described and classified as a whole or by it's parts.  Structures are made up of smaller parts.  Each part contributes to the way the whole structure works

Life Science
Living things have parts that help them survive on Earth.  All living things live in habitats that provide for their basic needs.  A habitat is a place in the environment that is made up of different parts.  It is a structure.

Earth Science
Climate and soil are key parts of the environment.  The type of soil and climatic conditions influence what living things can exist in any habitat.

Physical Science
The world is made up of material we call matter.  Matter has properties. We can describe it according to it's  properties.  Forces act on matter and cause motion.

Process Skills
Experimenting
Students experiment using controls as a way to test predictions via the Guess-Test-Tell approach.

Recording Data
Students record data from their experiments, readings and observations

Communicating
Students expand their communicating skills by writing and presenting results, doing team projects and by individual reflection.