<p> Welcome To Camp Internet online learning expeditions</p><p>This is your Expedition Passport</p><p> for recording your learning experiences and accomplishments</p><p>Name :</p><p>Destination: Global Garden</p><p>School/Library/Program Outpost:</p><p>Outpost Leader :</p><p>Grade Level :</p><p>1 www.rain.org/campinternet</p><p>2 The Garden – What do plants need to grow Answer as many as you can in the time provided</p><p>3 1. List the basic things a plant needs to grow?</p><p>2. Draw a picture of a sunflower and label the main parts of the plant?</p><p>3. Name three sources of nutrients or other essential resources for plants to live. </p><p>4 4. Describe what Crop Rotation is.</p><p>5. From your Soil & Soil Testing studies at http://www.rain.org/global-garden/science/soil-types-and- testing.htm find and list the 7 most typical things used to describe soil type.</p><p>The following 3 questions refer to soil studies at http://www.rain.org/global-garden/science/soil-types-and- testing.htm</p><p>5 6. Describe Loam type soil:</p><p>7. Describe Sandy type soil:</p><p>8. Describe Clay type soil:</p><p>9. Based on the illustration at http://www.rain.org/global- garden/science/garden-why-do-plants-have-flowers.html list the 4 parts of a flower.</p><p>10. Define what organic gardening is.</p><p>6 11. Do all flowers make seeds? If they do not all make seeds describe two other ways plants reproduce.</p><p>12. Review the creative compost studies at http://www.rain.org/aqet7.html. List the 3 types of compost used in a garden.</p><p>Trail Guides:</p><p>What is the history of Gardening?</p><p>7 Answer as many as you can in the time provided</p><p>1. Define gardening.</p><p>2. When did humans first begin to cultivate plants for food? Refer to http://www.rain.org/global-garden/history/iron-age-crops.html</p><p>3. Evidence for plant cultivation in North America shows that it Began at least how many years ago? Refer to http://www.rain.org/global-garden/history/garden-history- precolumbian.html :</p><p>4. Referring to the same page as question #3 list when the cultivation of maze (corn) began in North America?</p><p>8 5. Where was corn introduced into North America from?:</p><p>6. What is the name of the first cereal grain cultivated by humans for food? Refer to http://www.rain.org/global-garden/history/iron- age-crops.html</p><p>7. What is the Ancient Farm Project? Refer to http://www.rain.org/global-garden/science/ancient-farm.html</p><p>9 8. List 2 important crops grown in the Ancient Farm Project. http://www.rain.org/global-garden/ancient-farm-plants- images.html</p><p>9. Define “Sustainable Agriculture”. How does it apply to modern food production? Refer to http://www.rain.org/global- garden/science/sustainable-agriculture-what-is.htm</p><p>10 10. What is another name for “Jeffersons Plows”? Refer to http://www.rain.org/global-garden/garden-jeffsons-plough- 2.html</p><p>11. List the 4 basic groups which gardens can be divided into. Refer to http://www.rain.org/global-garden/history-of- agriculture-students.html</p><p>11 12. Work in Jefferson’s garden at Monticello is discussed between the years 1794 and ____ in the study lesson located at http://www.rain.org/global-garden/garden-ploughing- monticello.html . Please fill in the last date.</p><p>Trail Guides:</p><p>______</p><p>What is Gardening?</p><p>Answer as many as you can in the time provided</p><p>1. Define what organic gardening is. Refer to http://www.rain.org/global-garden/what-is-gardening.html</p><p>12 2. List 4 things which help a plant grow. Refer to http://www.rain.org/global-garden/science/garden-seed- growth.html</p><p>3. What is the “Plant Nutrient Cycle”? Refer to http://www.rain.org/global-garden/science/soil3.html#nutrbg</p><p>13 4. What is “Findhorn”? Refer to http://www.rain.org/global- garden/humanities/garden-links-gardens.html</p><p>5. What is “The Farm?” Where is it located? Refer to http://www.rain.org/global-garden/humanities/garden-links- gardens.html</p><p>6. Define “Eco-Design”. Refer to http://www.rain.org/global- garden/humanities/eco-design.html :</p><p>14 7. What type of soil is best for vegetables?</p><p>8. What type of soil is best for flowers?</p><p>9. Can you grow a garden in a desert? If yes give an example.</p><p>10. Define Bio-intensive Gardening? Refer to http://www.rain.org/global-garden/bio-intensive.html</p><p>15 11. How much water does an average vegetable garden take per day when it is starting? How much water per day by mid-season?</p><p>12. How many hours of sun light a day does an average garden need?</p><p>16 Trail Guides:</p><p>Compost</p><p>1. Does compost play a role in farming? If yes describe what compost is used for.</p><p>2. Is composting a type of recycling? If yes describe how. </p><p>3. What is vermicomposting?</p><p>4. Who wrote about composting 2000 years ago? Refer to http://www.rain.org/global-garden/compost-basics.html</p><p>17 5. List 6 factors which affect the process of a compost. Refer to http://www.rain.org/global-garden/compost-basics.html</p><p>6. Can you maintain a compost indoors? If yes, describe how.</p><p>7. Can compost be used to grow food people eat?</p><p>8. Is there a difference between compost from kitchen waste and compost from yard and garden cuttings? If there is a difference please describe.</p><p>9. Compost creates soil. How does kitchen waste or garden clippings become soil? In other words what makes the compost do what it does?</p><p>18 10. Why would a trash heap or other pile of waste not compost?</p><p>11. Which of these materials composts the most quickly?</p><p>1) zucchini 2) pumpkins 3) tomatoes 4) corn cobs</p><p>12. Which of these materials compost the most slowly?</p><p>1) zucchini 2) pumpkins 3) tomatoes 4) corn cobs</p><p>Trail Guides: ______</p><p>19 Gardening on the Space Station or How does a garden grow in the classroom? Answer as many as you can in the time provided</p><p>1. Define “hydroponics.</p><p>2. Describe your idea of how you would grow food indoors. Remember you will live on the food you grow: Refer to http://www.rain.org/global-garden/grow-indoors.html</p><p>20 3. What is “Biosphere 2”? Where is it located?</p><p>4. Who first used the word “biosphere”. What Country was that person from? What was the word used to describe. Refer to http://www.rain.org/global-garden/biosphere.html</p><p>5. Growing food indoors or out requires planning. What are the first steps in preparing to grow food indoors ? Refer to http://www.rain.org/global-garden/grow-indoors.html</p><p>6. What advantage does a greenhouse offer the gardner?</p><p>21 7. What type of soil is best for a window sill garden? Refer to http://www.rain.org/global-garden/window-garden.html</p><p>8. How long does it take for a seed to sprout in a window garden?</p><p>9. What kind of soil do you use in hydroponics?</p><p>10. Does Genetically Enhanced seed do better growing indoors?</p><p>11. Is the tomato plant you grow in an indoor garden different than a tomato plant you grow in an outdoors garden? If it is different please describe how.</p><p>Trail Guides:</p><p>22 Seeds Answer as many as you can in the time provided</p><p>1. What is a seed? Refer to http://www.rain.org/global- garden/seeds.html</p><p>2. List 3 ways a seeds get from where it grows to where it will sprout?</p><p>3. Are seeds the only way plants reproduce? If not list other ways plants make new plants.</p><p>23 4. What are “heirloom seeds” ?</p><p>5. Is the seed from a non-organically grown vegetable able to make an organic plant if that seed is plated in organic soil ?</p><p>6. List 4 factors which permit seeds to sprout?</p><p>7. Can seeds be spouted in space?</p><p>24 8. Is there a difference between Genetically Enhanced seeds and regular seeds? If there is please describe the difference.</p><p>9. How do you keeps seeds from this years garden for next year?</p><p>10. When did humans first begin to save seeds for the next season? Refer to http://www.rain.org/global-garden/seed- history.html</p><p>Trail Guides: ______</p><p>25 GIS, GPS & your Garden Answer as many as you can in the time provided</p><p>1. Define GIS:</p><p>2. Define GPS.</p><p>26 3. How is GPS used with GIS?</p><p>4. List 5 different features of the Camp Internet garden which are listed on the Camp Garden GIS</p><p>5. Describe how a garden GIS would help control a pest such as aphids.</p><p>6. List the latitude and longitude coordinates for the Camp Internet garden.</p><p>27 Trail Guides:</p><p>28</p>