Interrelationships between soil, plants, animals, humans, and environment
THEME: The Living Soil–The Living Plant: We are all Interconnected and Related
STRAND: Biodiversity and Interdependent Relationships
GRADE LEVEL: K-2
Key Concepts
Describe how living things are interconnected with each other and with the environments they live in.
Lesson
Explore plant relationships with companion planting (ex: 3 sisters-corn, beans, squash).
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Investigate, observe and identify plant/animal relationships in the garden. Draw a picture or describe one relationship.
Observe and discuss the activity and interaction of birds, mammals, and invertebrates in the garden.
Use the garden as a model to observe and identify how soil, plants, animals, insects, and humans interact; draw or describe one of these relationships.
Activity
Tell or read the story of The Three Sisters.
Students write or draw a story about an interrelationship they have observed in the garden. Share.
Read Jo MacDonald Had a Garden by Mary Quattlebaum; Mollyʻs Organic Farm by Carol L. Malnor & Tina L. Hunner
Read Pulelehua and M maki by Janice Crowl; show native plant and native Kamehameha butterfly (including life cycle phases).