The first thing in this article that made me stop was the CLN network will include an initial data base of hundreds of lesson ideas for teaching and learning across curricular areas with a garden as co-teacher, and will provide a space for communication among garden-based educators. This intrigued me and encouraged me to take a look at the network so I can use lesson ideas from it in the future for outdoor learning. Another thing that made me stop was that disciplines and faculties, including UBC’s Faculties of Education, Land & Food Systems, Forestry, Landscape Architecture, Engineering, Medicine, Arts and Sciences were all included in the CLN. This made me think of how I can connect math to these other faculties to make students more interested if they do not normally enjoy math. This can also show students that they will use certain math concepts in everyday life by using these connections.
I really enjoyed finding where the sun will rise and set depending what time of year it is. I think it would be very fun to incorporate this into a lower grade class.I also plan on measuring shadows and angles in a garden outside. I think that this would be good to apply to Math 9 and 10 when students begin to learn about angles and triangles. Taking this application outside would help them see that math is not useless, and that they are able to use it in real life.
I believe it would be difficult to maintain the attention of some students. I feel as though a lot of students get distracted outdoors so I need to make sure that I'm giving them a task they'll find interesting and that they are separated in their own spaces. I feel like doing this outside will make math more interesting for many students. It will make them realize there are many real life applications of math.
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