WEBQUEST SUMMARY
Title:
Let the Seed Lead the Way!
Topic:
Standard &
Benchmarks:
Sustainability #4
Standard: Gardening
Benchmark: Determine the detailed needs that certain crops have
when grown in a garden.
I can statement: I can determine all of the facts needed to grow a
specific crop.
Design a seed packet for one chosen plant with all of the detailed
instructions to grow the plant.
Minimum of one class period for the WebQuest plus
out of class activity (creative thinking time) for completion of seed
packet.
Format for seed packet, card stock, makers, colored pencils, pens,
scissors, and glue stick.
Outcome:
Time
Recommended:
Materials needed:
Skills –artistic impression, the ability to follow directions, writing,
design, understanding of gardening, creativity
Equipment (beside computer) – printer
Vocabulary:
Hawaiian
vocabulary and
pronunciations.
Options:
Additional
Information:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Container Garden
Raised Bed
Native Hawaiian Plant
Seed
Seed Packet
1. If time is a factor, have students complete the part of the
WebQuest and/or the creative project as an outside activity
and then bring in for peer sharing.
Schedule computer lab time so all students can do this WebQest
simultaneously.
The WebQuest itself could be done in pairs and the project
independently.
Consider inviting a guest speaker from a seed company, or a farm
that plants their crops by seed annually.
Let the Seed
Lead the Way!
Worksheet
Answers:
1. What are 3 important factors to consider when choosing a garden site?
A site with sun, good soil and drainage and probably most important of all, close
to water.
2. Where do you think the best place might be to grow a classroom garden?
Why?
For a classroom garden would be good to use containers. There are no rules for
the right kind of container, except that it holds soil. Schools can use a vacant area
for a garden in the ground.
3. Why do you think that large tires might be great growing containers?
They keep soil in, and absorb large amounts of heat and sunlight, plus it’s
recycling garbage.
4. Why are containers helpful for growing plants?
They keep plants contained, weeds out, give the garden more of a “real plot”
effect, and create warmer soil than actually planting in the ground.
5. Think of one thing at home or around the school that might be used as a
container for a small garden.
Any reasonable container is a complete response.
6. How was one garden different from the other? What was similar about each?
They are all based on different themes. They are all cultivating something
specific.
7. Can you think of a local Hawaiian theme for your garden plant choices?
Example: Gone to the birds! A garden that is attractive to native bird species.
8. What are some important things to consider when you are deciding WHAT to
grow in your garden?
Things to consider: Zone, climate, environment, nutrient availability,
convenience for tending and harvesting…etc.
9. Why might it be wise to choose Native plants that do well in the area you are
planting in?
Native plants may be more accustomed to growing in their zone, and do so easily.
They may not be so needy, and easier to grow (less challenging).
10. Why was it important for the travelers to bring plants from their home island?
Early peoples learned through trial and error which plants could serve their needs
and how to farm them prayerfully and skillfully. A few life-sustaining plants had
long been cultivated through selection and preservation. Upon the sailing canoes
were stashed precious cargo of the shoots, roots, cuttings and seeds of these plants
for food, cordage, medicine, fabric, containers, all of life's vital needs.
11. What can a seed packet tell you?
How much seed is in the packet, kind of seed, variety, price, picture, plant
appearance description, where/when/how to plant, when it is ready to pick,
instructions for care, year the seeds should be planted (expiration date), where the
seed is from.
12. What four plants would you like to grow in your garden? Circle the plant you
will use to design a Seed Packet.
Any four plants with one circled.