JMG Program Overview

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Junior Master Gardener Program

• Program Purpose
• Develop leadership skills
• Identify community needs/volunteer opportunities
• Peer and cross generation mentoring
• Foster personal pride and responsibility
• Increase knowledge in environmental
• horticulture education

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Who Can Participate in JMG?

• Public Schools
• Private/Home schools
• 4-H Clubs, scouts, YMCA
• After-school programs
• Public/Botanical gardens

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Junior Master Gardener Program

• Levels of Instructioncurrently available
• Level 1 - Grades 3-5
• Level 2 - Grades 6-8

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Junior Master Gardener Level
One Core Curriculum

• JMG Youth
• Handbook

• Teacher/Leaders Guide

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Curriculum Design

• Hands-On and Project Based
• Integrated across all subject areas
• Flexibility of use
• Choices available in group and individual
  activities
• Community service and leadership incorporated in
  all units

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Junior Master Gardener
thematic Level One Curricula
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Operation Thistle Seeds of Despair Beyond the
buckling cement of a long-forgotten industrial
park, in the deep shadows of a polluted
swamp, a weed grew.
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A mutating, prickly, twisted little thistle with
a twisted plan... Almost no light
penetrated this place and everything grew
black,
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cold and slimy except the thistle. He
grew more intelligent, more cunning.
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No longer content to go unnoticed, the time
had come for Dr. Thistle's plan to grow...
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Agent Jasmine
Agent Ginkgo
Colonel Maranta
Queen Flora
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• JMG Level TwoOperation Thistle Seeds of
  Despair

Plant Growth and Development
teaching concepts
Importance and Uses of Plants Plant
Classification Plant Parts Plant Needs Plant
Processes Plant Growth Seed Propagation Vegetative
Propagation
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Activity Session 1
A. Indoor Botanical Garden of Art (Operation
Thistle, p20) B. Know and Show Sombrero (JMG
Level1Teacher Guide p4)B. Quick Draw Flowers
(Operation Thistle, p43)
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Operation Thistle
Germination Race
( pg 88 )
Manipulate variables to experiment and find
factors affectingseed germination
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Operation Thistle
Sweat Plants
( pg 74 )
Capture plant sweat to learn about transpiration
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How can my students earn Junior Master Gardener
certification in this curriculum?
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JMG Level TwoOperation Thistle Seeds of
Despair
Plant Growth and Development
To earn certification students must complete at
least
1 group activity per learning concept 1
individual activity per learning concept 1
community service project 1 life skill and
career exploration activity
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Service Learning
I enjoy teaching the smaller kids what we have
learned. Its almost like being a big brother to
them.
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I enjoyed JMG very much. It is the best science
class I have ever had. I did things I enjoy
instead of school work. Instead we taught little
kids, gardened, composted, and did activities.
LaurenJMG youth
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What about TAKS and TEKS?
Play with Your Food, J. Elffers,1997
www.jmgkids.us/standards
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Activity Session 2
A. Plant Plastic (Operation Thistle, p13) B.
Plant People (JMG Level One Teacher Guide,
p12) C. Survivor Seedling Operation Thistle, p60)
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Operation W.A.T.E.R.
Reverse Soil Erosion Challenge
(p153)
Students are challenged to demonstrate the
opposite of soil erosion?
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• JMG Level TwoOperation W.A.T.E.R.

water and the earths resources
growing amastery ofsoil water
Dr.Thistle Goes Underground
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• Operation W.A.T.E.R.

water and the earths resources
Thistle Goes Underground
teaching concepts

• Soil Color, Texture, Structure
• Nutrients
• Soil Improvement
• Soil Conservation
• Water Cycle and You
• Water Movement
• Watersheds, Wetlands and
  Aquifers
• Water Conservation

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• Operation W.A.T.E.R.

Water in your Hands
(p100)
Students see and feel how water moves over land
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Operation W.A.T.E.R.
Read the Roots
(p121)
Thicker longer roots, help plant survive 2 week
classroomdrought
what happens when you do a better job watering
just the root zone?
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• Operation W.A.T.E.R.

Carpeting Wetlands
(p104)
experiment to learn the function of wetlands
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Operation W.A.T.E.R.
Perky Soil
(p125)
Independent investigation how does soil move
through different soil types?
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Operation W.A.T.E.R.
Root Zone Water Police
(p135)
1. Run the sprinklers for 15 minutes.
2. Twenty-four hours later, dig up ashovelful of
soil to measure the number of inches deep the
soil is moistened.
3. Divide 90 by the depth in inches
of the moistened soil.
Students protect water and serve their community
byproviding customized info about a lawns
specific water needs
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How does work?! Students determine
a simple ratio
X inches(tested depth of moisture) 15
minutes(number of minutes watered)
6 inches(ideal depth of moisture) Y
minutes(number of minutes that area should be
watered)

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Activity Session 3
A. Plant Makeover (Operation WATER, p28) B. 2
liter compost capsule (Operation WATER, p49) C.
Up Down Sideways Shout Operation WATER, p116)
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• Operation W.A.T.E.R.

Micro-Baked Dirt Cake (p36)
what happens when soil organisms are not present?
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• Operation W.A.T.E.R.

Dirty Scavengers (p2)
students get dirty learning soil is more than
just dirt
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• Operation W.A.T.E.R.

Soil Jewelry (p13)
Students create avery unique beads of earth
while learning that soil color can indicate
organicmatter, air movement,and water drainage
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How can my students earn Junior Master Gardener
certification in this curriculum?
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• JMG Level TwoOperation W.A.T.E.R.

To earn certification inSoils Water
studentsmust complete at least
1 group activity per learning concept 1
individual activity per learning concept 1
community service project 1 life skill and
career exploration activity
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www.jmgkids.us

• Resources for Teachers
• Activities for Kids
• Kid-Friendly Resources
• Online ordering of JMG curricula and recognition
  items

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Why Should Programs Register?

• Get a cool registration certificate
• Have your group posted on the JMG website
• Get updates on upcoming JMG news and events
• Its free, doesnt obligate youth to complete
  program
• Allows youth in your group to become
  certified Junior Master Gardeners
• Be the Group of the Month!

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JMG is a hands-on program aligned to academic
standards It is so refreshing for our students
to be able to cover the standards in other than a
test format. The children enjoy the
activities. Kathleen Coburn, Ph.D.
Director of Math, Science, Gifted Education
Temple ISD
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Program Evaluation

• National On-line Survey for Leaders Conducted by
  Texas AM University Department of Agricultural
  Education and National JMG Program Office
• Over 85 of respondents stated that
• JMG has increased youth interest in
  science
• Over 83 of respondents stated JMG has
• contributed to higher academic standards
• Over 85 of respondents said JMG youths were
• more enthusiastic about learning

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• Hort Technology Studies specifically examining
  the benefits of students participating in JMG
  Curricula results show once weekly use of
  gardening activities and hands-on classroom
  activities help improve science achievement test
  scores.
• Impact of Hands-on Science through
  SchoolGardening in Louisiana Public Elementary
  Schools
• Students in the experimental groupscored
  significantly higher on the scienceachievement
  test compared to thestudents in the control
  group .
• Growing Minds The Effect of a School
  GardeningProgram on the Science Achievement
  ofElementary Students

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• Hort Technology Studies specifically examining
  the benefits of students participating in JMG
  Curricula
• students in the experimental groupdid
  significantly increase their overalllife skills
  scores .
• Growing Minds The Effects of a One-year
  SchoolGarden Program on Six Constructs of Life
  Skillsof Elementary School Children
• Qualitative data also indicated that the
  students enjoyed the program, shared what
  theylearned with others, and wanted
  toparticipate in more JMG and gardeningtype
  activities .
• An Evaluation of the Junior Master
  GardenerProgram in Third Grade Classrooms

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