Table 1 Monthly garden and classroom activities for each target crop for the Watch Me Grow intervention
Crop | Activity | Description | Garden | Classroom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Lettuce | Reading | The Secret Life of Mitch Spinach by Feerick & Hillenbrand | • | |
Garden | Spinach spies: chart planting, nurturing, growth and harvest | • | ||
Classroom | Seed sorting: identifying lettuce and spinach seeds | • | ||
Taste Testing | Spinach stackers taste test | • | ||
Strawberries | Reading | Monsters Don’t Eat Broccoli by Hicks | • | |
Garden | What part do we eat? Discover edible parts of many crops | • | ||
Classroom | Broccoli friends: creating broccoli friend from various shapes | • | ||
Taste Testing | Broccoli mops and stalk sticks with healthy dipping sauces | • | ||
Spinach | Reading | Do Lions Like Lettuce? by Butterfield | • | |
Garden | Lettuce sprouts: graphing lettuces by color and size | • | ||
Classroom | Cut and color a paper salad | • | ||
Taste Testing | “Lettuce do a taste testing” of various types of lettuce | • | ||
Broccoli | Reading | First Strawberries by Bruchac | • | |
Garden | Where’s my strawberry? Discover stages of strawberry growth | • | ||
Classroom | “I’m a Strawberry” song to learn about plants and harvest | • | ||
Taste Testing | Fun with strawberry smoothies | • |