Gardening instruction through HGTV's website - analyzed through 3 educational theories

3.  A Guide to Leafy
Vegetables
Carrot Varieties
to Try in Your
Containers
 17 Delectable
Heirloom Tomatoes
How to Start a
Vegetable
Garden
Materials Needed:
potting soil
water
tomato seeds (1
packet)
dwarf (ball-type) carrot
seeds (1 packet)
liquid organic fertilizer
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5. I'm about to start a second round of raised veg plants. How should I
prepare/re-fertilize my soil?
Good Morning Clover ... had to run out to my raised bed that I'm
covering for the Autumn / Winter here in Hardiness zone 5b Ohio. I
mixed in some fresh organic material from my compost pile which is
basically broken down manure and leaves. You can buy bags of
'manure' at the garden centers to add to your growing space. In the
beds I'm not using but putting to rest for the winter season I spread
manure directly from the bunny trays which is bunny poop and some
wood chips. During the winter this combination breaks down and
makes for a great soil in the spring.
* This is a great article on improving your soil
: http://www.hgtv.com/design/outdoor-design/landscaping-and-hardscaping/
improving-your-soil

7. Did well:
 Gaining Attention
 Defining Learning
Objective
 Presenting Content
 Providing Guidance
Did not do as well:
 Eliciting Performance
 Assessing
Performance

8. Did Well:
 Calling Attention to
Important Details
 Selective Recognition
 Helping Learner
Recall Prior
Knowledge
 Repetition of key
Information
Did not do as well:
 Organizational
Strategies
*mnemonics

9. Did well:
 Activating prior
knowledge
 Using Meaningful
Material
 Anchoring
 Assimilation
 Accommodation
 Cognitive Load
Did not do as well:
 Should not assume a
general base of plant
knowledge

10. School Gardening
In The Kitchen
Community's modular
learning gardens such as
this one in Denver,
Colorado, kids learn
hands-on work, how to
use garden tools, and fun
plant facts from placards.

11. Organic Gardening
• biodiversity * crop rotation * compost * water conservation *
• The idea is that all life forms, from the bacteria on up, work together
with as little meddling from us as possible, so manufactured
fertilizers, pesticides, growth accelerants and regulators such as
hormones and antibiotics, genetic engineering, sewage sludge and
irradiation are off limits.

12. Apartment Gardening
http://videos.hgtv.com/video/urban-gardening-0148310

13. Community City Garden
Ron Finley has been called a
renegade gardener, a gangster
gardener and an eco-lutionary. His
TED talk about turning South
Central L.A,'s vacant lots into "food
forests" has been viewed almost one
million times since March. And he's
been profiled in everything from The
New York Times to treehugger.com.

14. Eating Seasonally
Locally grown seasonal produce is at its nutritional best, and is much
tastier.
There is a huge variety of fruits and vegetables that grow locally
throughout the year.

15. Farm or Garden – to - Table
Preserving
Canning
Drying
Recipes Pickling

16. Potential problems:
• We didn’t know each other
before this class
• Graduate school involves
unique scheduling
difficulties for group work

17. How we made it WORK!
Initial meeting –
Narrow down topic according to something in
which we were ALL interested
THREE important means of communicating:
1) Blackboard Discussion Group - 40 posts ! !
2)Emails
3) In Class Group Time

18. +Communication
+Flexibility
+Support
 Used ALL of our combined resources
and skills
 Asked one another for information
 Evaluated one another’s ideas

19. Although we each were able to see applications of
the 3 learning theories applied throughout the
events on HGTV,
the main learning experience was gained
through our participation in collaborative
learning.
The members of our team enjoyed learning
about gardening almost as much as we enjoyed
learning more about each other.