Teaching Strategies Gold Creative Curriculum Gardening Unit Anchor Chart

Creative Curriculum Teaching Strategies Gold Gardening Anchor Chart

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Do you use Creative Curriculum’s Teaching Strategies Gold in your classroom? After using it for the past 8 years, I have found each year, as I approached a new curriculum, I was scrambling to come up with the materials I would need for each unit. With this set, you won’t have to! Utilizing this set in your classroom, you will have all of the materials necessary to create an Anchor Chart reflecting the “Gardening” unit. This downloadable set includes the TSG Anchor Chart topics of:

• What do we know about gardening? What do we want to find out?
• How can we plan and care for our garden?
• Who helps gardens grow?
• How do gardens help people and the environment?
• How can we harvest our garden?
• How do insects help the Earth?

Each topic features child-friendly picture cards to correspond with each topic, prompting active teacher-student discussion and interaction. Exploring each topic, students can share what they know about Gardening in a way that makes sense to them, with topic questions and visual aides that are targeted towards young visual learners. This set has included both quality clip art, as well as real photographs to enhance student learning.

To best use this set, print, laminate, and cut. I prefer to add a small magnet piece to the back of each item, so that I can use it with my students on our white board. The pictures used in this set are surrounded by a black square, and are the perfect size for young children to utilize themselves, with guidance. While this set is designed around the TSG curriculum, the opportunities for use are endless!

In addition, this “Gardening” unit features an additional "Ideas to Celebrate Learning" at the end of the set. This includes worksheets for labeling parts of a sunflower, labeling pollinators, observing worms, and more! Also included is a Gardening Memory game, life cycle of a Sunflower poster, headers for the scientific process experiment, and a worksheet for documenting a soil experiment.

Also included are Questions of the Day for each week, which can either be printed and used the way they are, or printed and cut out to add to your anchor chart or your own question of the day approach. Included with the Question of the Day are visual supports, when applicable. This resource is the first of these anchor charts to include multiple options for the Questions of the Day - plain text, touch dots, and visual supports!

This resource also includes three clickable pages of book recommendations for the unit, as well as two pages of suggested links to share with students about insects!

We hope you and your students enjoy working with the Gardening unit. Please remember to leave feedback and let us know how this unit works for you