Ready to take your maths lessons into the great outdoors? Watch your students' engagement blossom with our complete, nature-based mathematics unit, "Unit 3: Garden Explorers"!
This 9-week unit is designed to transform your school garden or playground into a rich, hands-on classroom for mathematical discovery. Fully aligned with the Australian Curriculum, this resource is packed with sensory and play-based activities that focus on comparing objects and solving number problems with natural materials.
What's Inside?
9 Weeks of Outdoor Lesson Plans: A full term of planning is done for you! The unit covers Direct Comparison of Length, Mass, Capacity, and Duration; Counting to 20; Partitioning Numbers (Part-Part-Whole)
Addition and Subtraction; and Sorting.
Engaging, Nature-Based Activities: Your students will love going on a nature walk to order sticks from shortest to longest, using a bucket balance to find the heaviest rock, creating "Garden Addition" stories with minibeasts and sorting their own collection of natural "treasures".
Built-In Differentiation: Easily cater to the diverse needs of your students with specific support strategies and extension tasks in every lesson, such as using informal units to measure or partitioning a number into three parts.
Seamless Assessment: Effortlessly track student progress with formative assessment opportunities embedded directly into the hands-on activities. The unit culminates in a comprehensive summative assessment task with a detailed marking rubric.
Strong Cross-Curricular & Career Links: Each lesson includes powerful links to Science, Sustainability and HASS. It also features "Early Career Education" connections to show students how maths is used by everyone from Botanists to Chefs.
A Complete Foundation Year Maths Solution
This resource is Unit 3 of a comprehensive 4-Unit series designed to cover the entire Foundation Year of the Australian Mathematics Curriculum. By using all four units, you can be confident that you have covered every mandatory Content Descriptor for the whole year, with no gaps in student learning.
Download "Unit 3: Garden Explorers" today and bring your maths lessons to life in the great outdoors!
