Summary
The kids plant a garden and quickly learn it isn't just for them — bees, birds, and bugs all need it too, and a good garden has something for everyone. Then the friends form an explorer band and practice the naturalist's best tools: looking, listening, and wondering.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
A garden feeds more than the gardeners.
- Who visited the garden besides the kids? What did each visitor need?
- Why are bees good news for a garden?
- What tools did the Band of Explorers use to study nature?
- If our class planted a garden, what would you include so animals could share it?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: garden, pollinator, explorer, observe, share.
Try it: Design a class garden on paper with one plant for people and one for pollinators.
Try it: Take a two-minute 'listening walk' and list every nature sound you hear.