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Exploring Texture in the Garden (Grades 3-5)

Students explore living and nonliving things, determine how nonliving resources help sustain plant life, and experiment with visual arts techniques through an examination of texture in the natural world. Activities in this lesson include collecting and categorizing items from the natural environment, creating seed and soil mosaics, making clay imprints, and coloring cloth with plant materials.

Grades
3 – 5
Estimated Time
Activity 1: 12 hours, Activity 2: 1 hour, Activity 3: 30 minutes
Updated
September 23, 2022

Background

Lesson Activities

Credits

Author

Debra Spielmaker | Utah Agriculture in the Classroom

Sources

  1. A Handful of Dirt by Raymond Bial.

Standards

National Content Area Standards

  • Science
    • 5-LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
      • 5-LS2-1: Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.