Picture of me and my group mates who are learning about this unit.

For this quarter, during UOI class, we are learning about Agriculture.           These are our main ideas of our unit:

Farming has an impact on the environment.

1) Farming practices vary around the world.

2) Direct and indirect products of agriculture.

3) An “earth friendly” garden can be designed.

After we planted plants, we had another experiment called Making Bug Trap. Before we are making bug traps at school, we had to search methods of making bug traps easily.

So I chose very simple one that was making bug trap with things that I have.

Method of making my bug trap:

Materials: a yellow paper or yellow cardboard, plastic zipper bag, Petroleum jelly, and a plastic spoon or knife.

Step 1: Put a yellow cardboard into a zipper bag.

Step 2: Spread Petroleum jelly with spoon on a zipper bag like spreading jam on a toast.

Step 3: Put the trap on the floor safety.

I was making a bug trap.

What kind of method did this bug trap is using for catching insects?

Mostly bugs like bright colors such as yellow so bugs will come nearby to this trap. And when you spread this sticky petroleum jelly, the bug will stick on the trap.

I was putting my trap in the forest nearby my school.

A couple of weeks later, we visited this forest again to look what happened to our traps. My trap was full of soil and little pieces of branches and plants. And other students had insects in their traps like spider, centipede, and ants. However there were few students who lost their foods (fruits and jelly) and don’t have any insects inside such as my friend Kathy.

Picture of my trap

This is a picture of Kathy who is holding her trap before she put her trap in the forest.

This is a picture of Kathy who covered her trap in the leaves.

This is Kathy’s trap before she leave it for a couple of weeks.

This is Kathy’s trap after she left it for a couple of weeks. The bugs ate all of   banana and a jelly and ran away.

This is our speech that we spoke in front of our parents.

When we got our strawberry bushes from the Strawberry Farm, we raised another plants called beans.

First we all got 3 beans for each and we planted one of the beans in the plastic bag that has wet paper towels in it and another 2 beans , we planted in our pot.

Bean into a plastic bag: We got a plastic bag for each and we soaked few paper towels. Then we put the wet paper towels into the plastic bag and stapled the center of the plastic bag that has few wet paper towels in it. Later, we put our bean above the stapled spot.

Bean into a pot: We dug the ground with the shovel and put some soil into our pots. Then we poked with our fingers  to make two holes. After, we put two beans into the holes , we covered the beans with the soil.

I hope my strawberry bush and beans grow well.

On 8th April 2010, our 5th graders went to Yongin Baek ah Myeon Organic Strawberry Farm. We visited this strawberry farm because we are learning new UOI unit that is about Farming.

When we arrived to this farm, there were lots of plastic bag houses. Then  2 guides of  this farm came and explain intresting things about farm.

First, we unpacked our bags and write few sentences about facts that we know about strawberries. And we picked organic strawberries in a hot plastic bag house.

            Kathy and I are picking strawberries.

    Picture of us eating strawberries that we picked.  

After we finished picking the strawberries and put a bunch of it in a plastic bag, we planted the strawberry bushes by ourselves.

  Kathy and I are putting the soil with our hands.

   We are going to plant that strawberry bush that is in the red pot.

Our pots are full of soil~!

      She is asking how to plant strawberries.