Friday, August 23, 2019

"Design a garden" STEM learning scenario

My love for Landscape Architecture and my experience on teaching the relevant subject in my vocational high school for years,  led me to develop a learning scenario with the title "Design a garden for your community".
The “STEM Is Everywhere!” MOOC, that was carried out by SCIENTIX and hosted on the EUN Academy gave me the chance to submit my learning scenario and after two rounds of reviewing, here it is, in the SCIENTIX repository for STEM resources.


Related subjects are:
Botany, Maths and ICT.
Additionally, for vocational education: gardening, landscaping, digital design.

By the end of  the learning activities students are expected:
  • to know how to measure with accuracy, to scale and to digitally draw a small garden plot
  • to know how to choose plants suitable for their garden and 
  • to develop their creativity and their collaborative skills. 



Students will be allowed to make their own choices and this will help them develop entrepreneurial skills (according to the EntreComp framework).





If you plan to run a project on Sustainable development, consider that designing (and creating) public green spaces can be related to SDG11, target 11.7 (By 2030, provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, in particular for women and children, older persons and persons with disabilities)









This is a digital garden design that my students have made in the frames of the eTwinning project "Two island inspire" and I'm sharing it with you as an example of a project where the learning scenario can be used.
 I'm sure that you can find a lot of ideas to use my learning scenario in your projects.

Design a garden for your community



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