2 Litre Bottles

Besides teaching the important stuff I have to cover in the curriculum, I am a project based teacher. It's the most hands on, authentic way to learn. It encourages students to think outside the box and engages those who struggle with traditional pencil to paper tasks.  

Last year we joined the Living Space project and compared how environmental conditions (carbon dioxide, humidity, and temperature) are the same/differ on Earth and the International Space Agency.  For 2 years before that, we had a garden tower company growing in our room where we sold herbs and donated lettuce to the Kanata Food Cupboard. Before that, we designed and operated an escape room to raise money for a teacher who had cancer. 

This year, we are planning out vertical growing frames that are going to run along our large classroom windows. What this project will eventually become is open ended. We figure out and change things as we go in our discovery process. 

But, right now grade 6 students need to bring in an empty 2 litre plastic bottle to get us started. 

The gr 4/5's will eventually need to bring in their own bottle after we build another grow frame.