Clyde Waterfront Education

Bench

Sensory garden for people with special needs

This lesson will allow learners to develop their knowledge of location plans. Learners will use core skills to develop both knowledge and understanding of a graphic communication topic and key capacities of Curriculum for Excellence through a challenging cross cutting topic.  By working with cross curricular areas, they will gain knowledge of, and design, a sensory garden including layout, plant choice and garden structures for potential use on Clyde waterfront development site.  They will present their ideas to planners and local community groups for feedback.

Broad Outcomes of learning

• Skill base and understanding of key areas of subject knowledge and understanding are used and enhanced
• Gained employability skills through putting learning into context of landscape architecture and working with external businesses – teamwork, communication, co-operation
• Achieved 4 capacities of a CfE

Relevance to curriculum

• Supports CfE Technology
• Relevance of how curriculum topic on location plans is relevant to work and life and how this subject knowledge is put into practice in a cross curricular topic

About this lesson/project idea

Theme Curricular area Age group
Green networks Technologies Lower Secondary
Lesson/project focus Interdisciplinary Learning Opportunities Cross cutting themes
Graphic communication – location plans Expressive Arts;
Health and Wellbeing;
Languages;
Mathematics;
Science;
Social Studies;
Technologies
CfE;
AifL;
Citizenship;
EiE;
Parents as Partners;
PSD;
Sustainable Development Education;
Taking Learning Outdoors;
NEET

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