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Each of these books is an introduction to a different dimension or element of NGSS. Our introduction brainstorming game before learning about the Science and Engineering Practices of NGSS! 🔍🌡️📊📚 This lesson starts with the brainstorm of why people travel and all of the different ways that they travel. And then we discuss why SEEDS might want to travel and pose a question about the different ways that we think they might travel? Go, Grow, Glow is a way to talk to students about how food is fuel for our body and how different foods support our bodies in different ways. You can see on the paper plate project here, that we first reflect on the ways that we aspire to go, grow, and glow. And then we learn about the different foods that can help us get there. Carbohydrates that help us go, proteins that help us grow, fruits and vegetables full of vitamins and minerals that help us glow from the inside out! 🌞 After our “Soil to Strawberry Salsa” card sort activity, students can make strawberry salsa! They can use kid safe knives to roughly chop the strawberries, onion, and jalapeño, they can pick the leaves off of the cilantro with their hands, they can measure and pour the honey and lime juice. Then, they put it all in a hand crank food processor to chop and combine! 🍓 @lifelabgarden As a follow up to the exploration described in the previous post, students are then asked, “Do all of these plants have all of these parts right now? Why or why not?” and then leading to “How do a plant and its parts change over time?” In our @lifelabgarden NGSS workshops, teachers participate as students and act as scientists - exploring the outdoor phenomena before constructing their own explanations of it. “Soil to Strawberry Salsa” Creating a model of plant structures, singing about the structures’ functions (“Roots, Stems, Leaves” by @bananaslugband) and modeling the process of pollination that turns the flower into a fruit 🐝🌸🔜🍓 We don’t have any fun in our @lifelabgarden workshops! 😉

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