"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

STEM is everywhere

New MOOC of the European Schoolnet Academy 29.10.2018 - 5.12.2018

STEM is everywhere

Technology is a tool to develop problem-solving capabilities, both in a team and during independent study.

Question to reflect on
Module 1
How will artificial intelligence rewrite the way we work, think, study?
AI will make things easier in our workplaces but relaying on AI will change the way we use our brain.
Human will be asked to do what AI can't.
Ethics will change and emotional intelligence will be of high demand.
Studying will be easier but it will need a stronger motivation.

Share the most important things you think should change in the educational systems.
We reform curricula but how to reform attitudes and mindsets of the educators, especially the older ones.
Teachers need new skills too.

Critical thinking and problem solving
collaboration and leadership
effective oral and written communication
accessing and analyzing information
curiosity and imagination
initiative and entrepreneurialism
agility and adaptability
What other skills do you consider to be crucial for 21st century learning?
Emotional intelligence, empathy

Examples of how you teach your students 21-century skills.
PBL on real life problems

Module 2
Do you agree that most students don't have an appreciation for science because they can't relate it to the real world? How do you deal with it in your STEM classes? Experiences and resources?
Yes, they don't. Every time I have given them  the freedom of choice of what they will work on their PBL class, they respond well. They like working on problems that are close to them.

Module 3
What is the most significant advantage of an interdisciplinary approach to STEM lessons?
It's closer to real life!

My lesson plan was about garden design of a public open space.
Reflecting on my teaching subjects in order to find an idea for my lesson plan I realized that vocational subjects are full of STEM activities.