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Global Garden Expedition Briefing
April 29 - May 3, 2002
We begin this week with a special look at May Day. One of the oldest Agricultural Celebrations May Day gives us a chance to look at cultures around the world and how they celebrate the beginning of May.
This weeks study unit on May Day has history, cultural studies and class activities.
If you create a May Pole or other May Day theme activity in your class send a picture and description of what you did over to camp@rain.org for our May Day Art Gallery.
Goto: http://www.rain.org/global-garden/may-day-history-activities.html
Goto: to begin your Butterfly Garden study
Have you begun to sprout your seeds? We add a new lesson this week on starting seeds.
Goto: to review Starting your garden Seeds
Our seeds are sprouting and we are beginning to transplant in the garden at the main Camp garden site. Goto: Transplanting our Sproutsto review the best ways to move your sprouts into the garden.
Trees in the garden. April is a good time to transplant trees. Goto: to begin study
Along with transplanting April is also the time to complete Bareroot planting. Everything from reaspberry bushes to fruit trees are ready for bareroot planting now. Goto: to begin study of this unit
As we prepare the Camp garden setting up for bean TeePee's has been important. There is a special unit on Bean TeePees in the Global-Garden Expedition this week at http://www.rain.org/global-garden/teepee-garden.html.
For all Mac classrooms. The GIS garden map is now viewable using Mac OS X. We've waited a long time for the new OS to allow Mac computers to view and work with Internet Map Server maps and now its here. Let us know if you have OS X running in your lab.
Goto: http://www.rain.org/website/garden to view the new Garden GIS map.
Remember we added 12 new Three Sister mounds to the Camp Internet garden in March. We have been watering and now have corn, pumpkin, beans and watermellon sprouting.
Each mound was made following the directions at : your Garden 3 Sisters web
If you have plans on paper or photos of your garden area send them over to camp@campinternet.net.
Starting
your school Garden Plans We have been working in teams to create our Garden Plans. Follow the link above to review some of the first steps in getting the Garden Plan in place.
Unit I:
General Notes on Starting Seeds
Unit II:
Sowing Seeds
Unit III:
Transplanting our Sprouts
To help in planning here is a Garden Planting Time Table
Continue your study of hydroponics. Camp Internet is looking for some innovative ideas on the use of hydroponics. Can your class make a plan for space station gardens or urban, big city gardens that uses hydroponics? Do you have some special ideas yourself? Send us a one page essay and drawing of your idea. The selected project will win a very special hydroponic unit for their classroom.
Study Unit I - Container Gardening
Goto: http://www.rain.org/global-garden/container-gardening.html
Class Project I - Container Gardening
Goto: http://www.rain.org/global-garden/container-gardening-herb-garden-planning.html for an indoor Herb Gardening project plan.
Study Unit I - Hydroponics
Goto: http://www.rain.org/global-garden/hydroponics-1.html.
Study Unit II - Hydroponics
Goto: The History of Hydroponics
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