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Rooftop Gardens - Second Grade Science
1.
2nd Grade Science
ILS—11A, 11B, 12B, 12E, 12F, 13A Rooftop Gardens Why is there a garden on the roof of Chicago’s City Hall? Theme Vocabulary This lesson explores how a rooftop garden helps to lower the temperature of a rooftop garden building, and therefore keep the people inside cooler. Using Chicago City Hall as City Hall a case study, students will experiment with colors and plants and design their own rooftop garden. heat /cold, hotter /cooler shade /sun Student Objectives temperature • be able to explain the connection between color and temperature • state two things that trees, plants, and flowers can provide for buildings thermometer • explain how a rooftop garden works conservation using less of • create a drawing (or model) of a rooftop garden for their school, neighborhood something 2nd Grade Science building, or home annual a plant that only lives one year Activities perennial a plant which lives and • conduct basic experiments with cloth and paper that illustrate how dark grows over several years colors feel warmer than light colors when placed in the sun • conduct basic experiments that illustrate how standing under a tree can state tree of Illinois the white oak make you feel cooler because the temperature is lower 165 state flower of Illinois the violet • take a walk around the block and observe / record / draw how much Rooftop Gardens sunlight falls on buildings and how many trees surround and shade them • design a rooftop garden for an existing school, neighborhood, or residential building Type • indoor, desktop activities • outdoor, walk-around-the-block activities Timeframe four class sessions of 40 minutes each Materials • several sheets of black construction paper • several sheets of white construction paper • alternatives for Day One: - ice cubes on individual plates, or - pieces of cloth, about the size of a dishcloth, one white, one dark colored, made of the same material • a nearby tree with leaves • Handouts A and B - photographs of City Hall’s rooftop garden • drawing paper (for each student), or recycled materials for building a model of a rooftop garden • pencils, crayons Schoolyards to Skylines © 2002 Chicago Architecture Foundation
2.
Teacher Prep
• photocopy or scan Handouts A and B for display or projection • scope out a route where there are examples of buildings that might be 1 warmer or cooler due to sun and shade from trees; try to find a location where students can safely stand in the sun and then under a tree Background Information for Teacher Why is there a garden on the roof of Chicago’s City Hall? The garden came about Location Information for one major reason— summer heat! 1 Chicago City Hall 121 North LaSalle Street Before the rooftop garden was created on top of City Hall, the flat roof was covered Chicago, Illinois in black tar paper. The dark color dramatically increased the amount of heat that the building absorbed, forcing City Hall’s air conditioning system to work extra Discussion Points hard to keep workers in the building cool and comfortable. • How do Chicago’s summer So, in 1999, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley announced there would soon temperatures make you feel? be a garden growing on the rooftop of City Hall at 121 North LaSalle Street, for the • What ways do you try to stay cool purpose of reducing heat build up. This new rooftop garden, designed by William Rooftop Gardens in the summertime? McDonough + Partners of Charlottesville, Virginia, was the largest to be planted on • On a hot summer day, where is a public building in a major city. the best place to stand outside to stay cool? First the roof structure had to be reinforced to support the extra weight of the • How do you try to keep your home garden. Next, soil was added and 20,000 plants (prairie grasses, shrubs, vines, cool in the summertime? flowers, and two oak trees) were planted. The plants are watered only by rainfall. 166 • Where is Chicago’s City Hall? The summer of 2001 was the first full growing season for this rooftop garden. What happens inside this building? Birdhouses were later added, and scientists have since identified several different species of birds and insects, including butterflies, dragonflies, and grasshoppers, 2nd Grade Science • A quote from Mr. William Abolt, the former Commissioner of Chicago’s who now call the roof their home. Department of Environment in charge of the rooftop garden at City On one of the hottest days of the summer in 2001, the 21,000 square foot Hall: “The city is wearing dark clothes garden area registered temperatures at 86º F in the areas with vegetation, while and it’s making the city hotter. We the light-colored walkways around the plants measured 110º F On the other hand, . want to dress the city in light colors.” the black tar surface on the roof of the Cook County side of the same building measured 168º F . Although the rooftop garden at City Hall isn’t open to the public, many office windows overlook it. Rather than looking at a roof covered by ugly tar paper, the thousands of people who work in surrounding buildings can now enjoy looking at a colorful and cooling garden. Students who understand that the coolest place to stand outside on a hot summer day is beneath a leafy tree can easily understand the basic idea behind a rooftop garden. The temperature underneath a large leafy tree can be cooler by 3 or 4 degrees. Schoolyards to Skylines © 2002 Chicago Architecture Foundation
3.
Activity Procedures day one
Begin the lesson by talking about heat and cold. Which do your students like 1 better? Would they rather be too hot or too cold? Is it easier to get warmer in the winter or cooler in the summer? What about buildings? Can buildings be kept cooler in the same way that people can be kept cooler? Conduct one or two of the following experiments with your students: Inside your classroom, place a piece of black construction paper and a piece Resources 2 of white construction paper in direct sunlight. Ask students which piece of The Gardener, Sarah Stewart, David paper they think will become warmer? Feel the paper after a few minutes. Were Small, illust. New York: Farrar Straus their hypotheses correct? (With 2nd grade students, the concepts of absorption and Giroux, 1997. reflection may be too complicated. It may be enough to simply have them know Rosemarie’s Roof Garden, Carmen that dark colors “keep” sunlight and lighter colors let sunlight “bounce off.”) Alexander. Port Orchard, WA: Little Blue Works, 2000. On a sunny day, go outside so students can feel the difference wearing a dark 3 or light color can make. Wrap a piece of dark cloth around one arm, and a The Tree That Grew Through the Roof, Thomas Berger, Marjan piece of light cloth around the other arm of a student. Have the student place both van Zeyl, illust. Edinburgh, Scotland: Floris Books, 2001. 2nd Grade Science arms in direct sunlight. After a few minutes, ask the student if both arms feel like they are the same temperature, or does one arm feel warmer than the other? Which one feels warmer? (They should answer: the arm in the dark cloth.) Have the entire class stand outside in direct sunlight for a few minutes. Then, Illinois Learning Standards 4 move under the shade of a tree. How does it feel different? Look for places and Benchmarks where the shadow of the tree falls on a building. Discuss how this might help the 11A Know and apply the concepts, 167 building stay cooler. principles and processes of scientific inquiry. Rooftop Gardens Place two ice cubes of the same size on two identical plates in direct sunlight. 5 Put a black piece of paper under one ice cube and a white piece of paper 11.A.1a Describe an observed event. 11.A.1b Develop questions on under the other. Which ice cube do students think will melt first? Why? Time how scientific topics. long it takes for the ice cubes to melt. Discuss why the ice cube on the plate with dark paper melted first. 11.A.1c Collect data for investigations using measuring instruments and technologies. day two 11.A.1d Record and store data using available technologies. Take a walk around the block near your school. As you walk, have students 6 look for buildings they think will be hotter in the summer because they have 11.A.1e Arrange data into logical patterns and describe the patterns. no trees to shade them. Which buildings might stay cooler because of trees growing 11.A.1f Compare observations of nearby? Bring along a clipboard and paper so that students can record the addresses individual and group results. and building names or draw sketches of these buildings. Or, bring along a camera 11B Know and apply the concepts, to document what you find. Once back in the classroom, compile your information principles and processes of into a large chart or another type of graphic organizer to keep track of how many technological design. buildings had lots of trees around them and how many didn’t. 11.B.1a Given a simple design problem, formulate possible solutions. 11.B.1b Design a device that will be useful in solving the problem. 11.B.1c Build the device using the materials and tools provided. Schoolyards to Skylines © 2002 Chicago Architecture Foundation
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Once back in
your classroom, ask your students to imagine planting some of 7 the same kinds of trees they found near their school up on the school’s roof. What do they think of this idea? Use the photographs on Handouts A and B and the Background Information about City Hall to explain the concept of a rooftop garden. Point out that it will only work with a flat roof. Discuss the advantages and possible disadvantages of having a garden on the roof. Did any of the buildings on your walk have no trees and a flat roof that might benefit from a rooftop garden? day three Illinois Learning Standards Have students use the knowledge they have gained through experiments and and Benchmarks (continued) 8 the neighborhood walk to re-design their school, their home, or one of the 11.B.1d Test the device and record buildings they saw on the walk, so that the building could have a rooftop garden. results using given instruments, Either draw the design with paper and pencils, or build a model using recycled techniques and measurement materials such as milk cartons, egg cartons, cardboard boxes, and twigs. methods. 11.B.1e Report the design of the device, and test the process and the day four results in solving the given problem. Have students write letters or create a presentation for your school’s principal 12B Know and apply concepts 9 Rooftop Gardens that describe how living things or the mayor of your city proposing a rooftop garden. Or, have the class interact with each other and their explain how their rooftop garden would work, the benefits of the idea, and the environment. reasons why it should be created. They may choose to list specific plants (or colors 12.B.1a Describe and compare of plants) they wish to grow there. Include drawings of their designs. characteristics of living things in relationships to their environments. 168 12.B.1b Describe how living things Extensions depend on one another for survival. • With your students, investigate the types of trees, flowers, and plants that grow best 12E Know and apply concepts that 2nd Grade Science describe the features and processes of in your region and those that do not. Example: If a coconut tree would be planted the Earth and its resources. on the rooftop garden, it would probably die during a Chicago winter. An oak or maple tree might be a better idea. 12.E.1b Identify and describe patterns of weather and seasonal change. • If your class is studying temperature in science or math, try this experiment: Using two thermometers, place one thermometer directly in the sun and another in the 12.E.1c Identify renewable and nonrenewable natural resources. shade. After a few minutes, compare the temperature readings of the thermometers. What do students notice? 12F Know and apply concepts that explain the composition and structure • Introduce the concept of pollution and smog into your lesson. Discuss how trees of the universe and Earth’s place in it. and rooftop gardens can help to make our air cleaner and easier to breathe. 12.F.1b Identify daily, seasonal and annual patterns related to the Earth’s • If your school building has a flat roof (or a secure place on the ground), you may rotation and revolution. want to consider having your students plant their own garden. A child’s plastic 13A Know and apply the accepted wading pool filled with dirt works well as a container for growing flowers or practices of science. vegetables. Lettuce and radishes grow quickly. 13.A.1c Explain how knowledge can be gained by careful observation. Schoolyards to Skylines © 2002 Chicago Architecture Foundation
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Handout A
Science 169 Rooftop Gardens The rooftop garden at City Hall under construction, Chicago. (Mark Farina, Department of Environment, City of Chicago, 2000) Schoolyards to Skylines © 2002 Chicago Architecture Foundation
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Handout B Rooftop Gardens 170 Science
The finished rooftop garden at City Hall, Chicago. (Mark Farina, Department of Environment, City of Chicago, 2002) Schoolyards to Skylines © 2002 Chicago Architecture Foundation