Last Thursday I spent the morning in the new greenhouse at Garnet Mesa Elementary. It is thrilling to work with classrooms that have buy-in and access to a greenhouse on campus! After meeting with the greenhouse teacher contact, I put together a soil lesson that would meet some objectives for her 4th grade class. Measuring, learning about micronutrients, hypothesizing…

The next day she asked if I could work with the other three 4th grade classes – wow – nearly 100 students (and teachers!) interested in soil! Thrilling indeed…

Each class spent about 30 minutes in the greenhouse learning about and mixing up the perfect recipe for potting soil. The students asked good questions & were quite enthusiastic about getting their hands dirty!