Patterns through the Seasons

Question	Response
How to develop attitudes?	This resource contributes to developing positive attitudes towards the school community, the neighbourhood, as well as environmental concerns in general. It successfully engages the students in experiential, inclusive and holistic activities year round.
What skills does this resource explicitly teach?	This resource explicitly teaches the following skills: observation and identification of plants planting, nurturing and harvesting plants using plants to maintain a healthy body using plants to decrease erosion, pollution, carbon emissions etc.
What important ideas are implied by the resource, but not taught explicitly?	Climate change, soil erosion, loss of green space in urban centers, etc. are concerns and responsibilities that belong to all of us.

Principle	Rating	Explanation
Bias Minimization	Very Good
Multiple Dimensions of Problems & Solutions	Very Good
Respects Complexity	Good
Action Experience	Very Good
Action Skills	Good
Empathy & Respect for Humans	Poor/Not considered
Personal Affinity with Earth	Very Good
Locally-Focused	Very Good
Past, Present & Future	Good	This unit contains information regarding heirloom plants. It provides an interesting way in which students are able to appreciate how plants use to be preserved (through seeds, etc.) in the past. It also discusses how we are able to use this information to make better choices for seeds in relation to where they come from in the present and how to maintain them into the future.

Principle	Rating	Explanation
Open-Ended Instruction	Very Good
Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Learning	Very Good
Discovery Learning	Very Good
Values Clarification	Very Good
Differentiated Instruction	Very Good	The range of activities suggested in this resource is diverse in terms of the learning needs of the students as well as different activities throughout the four seasons of the year.
Experiential Learning	Very Good
Cooperative Learning	Very Good
Assessment & Evaluation	Good
Peer Teaching	Good
Case Studies	Very Good
Locus of Control	Very Good

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