ERIC Number: EJ1378339
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 18
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0036-8121
EISSN: EISSN-1940-1302
The 3-H Social and Emotional Learning Cycle and the Three Sisters Garden
Trundle, Kathy Cabe; Hagevik, Rita; Wheeler, Laura; Vela, Katherine N.; Parslow, Michelle; Joy, David N.
Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, v60 n1 p32-49 2023
Social connections are crucial for today's middle and high school students. We address this social need through a 3-H Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Cycle. Through the Three Sisters Garden activity presented here, we teach secondary school students about biodiversity and sustainability as we integrate the arts into STEM (STEAM). Students investigate the growth and development of organisms from a crosscutting lens of systems. Students initiate the sensemaking process by paralleling their own need for companionship to plants. Students end the lesson by initiating a scientific argumentation for a Three (or Four) Brothers/Others Garden. The 3-H learning cycle begins and returns to social and emotional connections, giving equal weight of importance to the heart (social and emotional), hands (problem-solving), and heads (sensemaking). The lesson presented here exemplifies school garden-based learning and students' ability to initiate sensemaking of the indigenous Three Sisters Garden intercropping method. Analyzing gardens from a systems lens allows students to make emotional and cognitive connections between their own need for social connections and plants increased growth and productivity in a polyculture. When students emotionally, socially, and cognitively participate in the process of science, they begin to see themselves as a part of the scientific process.
Descriptors: Gardening, Middle School Students, High School Students, Learning Activities, Biodiversity, Sustainability, Teaching Methods, STEM Education, Art Education, Plants (Botany), Problem Solving, Hands on Science, Lesson Plans, Systems Approach, Productivity, Science Process Skills, Science Instruction, Social Emotional Learning, Safety, Standards, Instructional Materials
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; High Schools
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
Sponsor: National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) (USDA)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: 20216901235952