Garden Club: Garden Treasure Hunts

With the first Garden Club of the school year under their belts, the teens were ready to launch into planning for the next week’s club.

For the second Garden Club (September 24), the teens created a treasure hunt designed to help the elementary students get acquainted with the garden. They took their reflections into account from the first Garden Club, planning more carefully and adding more details to their outline. Charlie and Katie challenged them to consider the levels of the students, helping to adjust along the way so that the treasure hunt questions matched the elementary students reading and development. The teens recalled Dr. Chao and Dr. Smith’s training on STEM activity development, and made efforts to make the treasure hunt all about exploration and cultivating curiosity in the garden, rather than just a check-list of “to-do’s.”

A Highlights volunteer and Garden club student hard at work to complete the treasure hunt

Along with generous Highlight’s Volunteers, the Garden Club-ers had a genuine blast navigating the garden using a hand-drawn map and the treasure hunt sheet made by Green Teens. At the end, students wrote in and decorated their “Garden Club Journals,” a place for them to reflect on that week’s club, ask questions about the garden, and write about what they did and learned that day.