Welcome Horticulture II and III students. This will be
your final quarter project.
| Research Process |
Directions to Students |
| Scenario
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Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Thompson have decided to take you on
and hire you as their landscape contractor based upon your professional
portfolio. They want only plants
native to their Maryland Region. You are responsible for providing the
Thompson's with a list of strictly native landscape plants that would be
of use to them and designing a landscape drawing with the named plants
for their backyard. Remember they need trees, shrubs and flowers
that are suitable for full sun, partial sun/shade as well as plants for
full shade. What is a
native plant? |
| Task and Product
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The first part of your assignment will be searching the internet for
suitable plants to be used in the Thompson's landscape. You will
be searching to find a minimum four native trees, eight native shrubs
and ten native flowers. See the
Native
Plants Rubric in the assessment section for further details.
The second
part of your project is to create a landscape design that will be sold
to the Thompson's. You will use all of the prior knowledge that
you have gained in the past year about creating landscape designs as
well as any new information you may find in your quest for native
plants. See the Landscape Design Critique Rubric in the
assessment section for more details.
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| Assessments
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You will be assessed on the *accuracy of the plants you choose for
the design-See Native Plants Rubric for further details.
*landscape design you create-See
Landscape Design Critique Rubric
*letter you write to explain your process of researching, choosing
and using native plants in the design for the Thompson's-See
Business Letter Rubric |
| Question
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Essential Questions
*What makes native plants important to the
environment?
*How can alien plants effect the ecosystem of native plants?
Other Questions
*What is a native
plant?
*Why are native plants important?
*Why should we use native plants in a landscape?
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| Gather and Sort
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To collect information for a list of
sources to use.
Put your information in the
native plant organizer
or create a functional way to keep your information.
Keep track of everything you do in a work log to
document all of your work.
Don't lose your sources, be sure to put your
sources and information on your organizer and in a work cited page.
Click here for examples and help. Or check out the
webquest links
page. |
| Organize
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Once you have collected all of your information, you should organize
the plants you have choose to use on the
native
plant organizer or some other
form of your choosing. Be sure to include all of the necessary information including the full description and
pictures if necessary. |
| Conclusion
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At the end of the project you will have been able to research native
plants for a landscape and use the plants in creating a landscape
design. The last leg of your project is to write a business
letter to the Thompson's explaining all of the work you have
done. You must include all of the information you have learned
about the importance of native plants and plants you have
suggested/used in their landscape. The letter should fit the
basics of a business letter, for more information see
Letter Rubric in
the assessment section. |
