Students may recognize the importance of their senses, but they don't often focus on them individually. Students will experiment with sounds made by leaves, feeling different textures, observing different colors, and much more.

Students will use knowledge of adaptations to compare the structures and functions of plants. These likenesses are passed down between parent plants and their offspring

In this lesson, students will develop their fluency with addition and subtraction through a "real-world" application of collecting data about insects in the garden.

In this lesson, students will develop their fluency with addition and subtraction through a real world application of collection data.

Students will use objects found in the outdoor classroom to create rectangular arrays and write equations to express the total. Standard(s): 2.NC.OA.4Use addition to find the total number of objects arranged in rectangular arrays with up to 5 rows and up to 5 columns; write an equation to express

Students practice deciding whether an adjective or an adverb is needed by filling in the blank with one of the provided options.

Students learn to write descriptive sentences using adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases in this teacher-led lesson.

Students are introduced to air masses, with an emphasis on the differences between and characteristics of high- versus low-pressure air systems. Students also hear about weather forecasting instrumentation and how engineers work to improve these instruments for atmospheric measurements on Earth and in space.

In this lesson, students will explore the outdoor classroom finding objects and determining the first letter.

Students in this lesson will apply the use of angles to a real-world problem�finding the angle of the sun to determine the placement of solar panels. This lesson can be used to teach about angles, or to reinforce and apply understanding of angles.

In this lesson students will explore the physical characteristics of insects and how they camouflage themselves to avoid being eaten by predators.

In this lesson, students will explore the outdoor classroom in pairs looking for evidence of animal life and imagining what types of animals might live in and around the area.

The students will explore the outdoor classroom in pairs looking for evidence of animal life cycles and imagining what types of animals might live in, and survive in, the outdoor classroom area.

Square foot gardening is one way that ensures a vegetable garden bed can thrive. It is used to ensure not too many plants of a specific variety are planted in a single area. Using the square foot model keeps plants properly spaced, providing a perfect real-world context to teach area, apply multiplication strategies and have students work collaboratively. Most garden beds are 8 x 4 resulting in 32 square feet to work with. It is possible however to have beds of different sizes. While 32 square feet to work with is what is used in this lesson, the methods and chart can be used for any rectangular planting area.

The students will use their knowledge of repeated addition to determine the total number of objects in equal groups.

Students will identify and compare attributes of two-dimensional shapes in the world around them.

Students will identify and compare attributes of two-dimensional and three- dimensional shapes in the world around them.

Students will explore the outdoor classroom finding objects and determining the first sound.

Students will compare different plant traits and determine how each structure helps that species of plant grow and reproduce in the schoolyard habitat. After which, students can observe each plant for acquired traits.