Benefits of Indoor PlantsCarley Pavan

Activity Title: Horticulture industries. Group project

Skill Level: Beginning Intermediate (High school)
Learner Outcomes:
1) Students will understand the health benefits of indoor plants
2) Students will understand other benefits of indoor plants
3) Students will understand that plants go past the garden, Plants
positive effect in the workplace and healthcare facilities.
4) Students will understand how plants increase humidity levels in
indoor locations
Education Standard(s) VA SOL: CTEsource.org
Examine aspects of planning within an industry/organization.
Definition
Examination should include: development of vision and mission statements. Setting of
performance goals and objectives. Review of previous performance (e.g., productivity, profit).
Evaluation of current assets. Formulation of strategic and operational plans. Use of planning
tools (e.g., market research, budget analysis, decision-making models, competitive analyses).
Determination of human, natural, technology, and capital resource needs. Forecasting of trends.
Anticipation of changes in the business climate (e.g., economic factors, laws, regulations, taxes).
Anticipation of and compensation for organizational and industry risk.
Examine health, safety, and environmental issues related to an industry/organization.
Definition
Examination should include: Responsibility for workers health and safety. Laws/regulations and
practices affecting workers health and safety. Health and safety hazards. Health and safety
programs. Responsibility for the environment. Laws/regulations and practices affecting the
impact on the environment Sustainability initiatives.
Research career opportunities in the horticulture industry.
Definition
Research should include: Identifying related Career Clusters and Pathways. Determining the
education and experience required for specific careers. Examining the working conditions
associated with specific jobs in the horticulture industry. Developing a plan to gain the necessary
education and experience for a career in horticulture.

Life Skills
Decision Making
Collaboration
Goal making
Team work
Tags:
Horticulture
Indoor plants
Indoor plant benefits
Jobs within horticulture
Time Needed: two class periods (two days)
Introduction Benefits of indoor plants. Start class off with the question of
the day. Todays question: What are some benefits of indoor plants that you
can think of. Go over this with students for 5-10 minutes.
Opening Questions: What are some benefits of indoor plants that you can
think of? What are some health benefits of indoor plants?
Background information:
PowerPoint labeled Benefits of indoor plants.
Experience explain the step by step process of what the facilitator would
do.Follow the experiential learning cycle. Explain:

Before the Activity

o Begin the lesson with a presentation (PPT, Prezi, etc.)
introducing benefits of indoor plants. Show students different
benefits and have discussions on these benefits.
o During presentation on slide 16 stop and ask students What do
Interiorscape Businesses actually do? Write down the students
answers as they talk then compare with the students their
answers to the following slide with the correct answers.
o Following the presentations, ask students:
What are some health benefits of indoor plants?
Why are indoor plants a positive subject for healthcare
facilities?
What are some examples of Interiorscapes?
o Pull up the last slide about the group project and discuss what it
is you are looking for. (hand rubric out to students and read
rubric quickly)
o The group project will take the remainder of the class and 15
minutes in the beginning of the next class followed by the
students presentations.

Share
At the end of the presentations ask the students to do a quick recap of
one of the presentations they found interesting. All students must do a
recap.

Reflect:
Reflect on some of the new topics that students presented on with the
students.
Tie those topics back to the benefits of indoor plants.

Generalize
Do you have any personal experience with indoor plants?

Term and Concept Discovery:

Interiorscapes
Airborne contaminates
Green Buildings Initiative
Living wall art
Apply
How can you take what you learned today and apply/ improve your
home?
References (this is essential if any sources were used to develop and/or
adapt the activity) *
PowerPoint referred from Indoor Plants Horticulture 2144
Learn More/ Virtual Fun/News/Did You Know
Youth Handouts with answer keys
Project rubric (Handout after lecture is over)
CATEGORY

Preparedness

Student is
completely prepared
and has obviously
rehearsed.

Student seems
pretty prepared but
might have needed
a couple more
rehearsals.

The student is
Student does not seem
somewhat prepared, at all prepared to
but it is clear that
present.
rehearsal was lacking.

Content

Shows a full
Shows a good
understanding of the understanding of
topic.
the topic.

Shows a good
Does not seem to
understanding of parts understand the topic
of the topic.
very well.

Collaboration
with Peers

Almost always
listens to, shares
with, and supports
the efforts of others
in the group. Tries to

Often listens to,

shares with, and
supports the efforts of
others in the group but
sometimes is not a

Usually listens to,

shares with, and
supports the efforts
of others in the
group. Does not

Rarely listens to, shares

with, and supports the
efforts of others in the
group. Often is not a
good team member.

keep people working cause \"waves\" in

well together.
the group.

good team member.

Comprehension Student is able to

accurately answer
almost all questions
posed by classmates
about the topic.

Student is able to
accurately answer
most questions
posed by
classmates about
the topic.

Presentation
style / Visuals

Very well and

organized
presentation either
technology based or
poster based with 5
or more visuals

Decently put
Poorly put together
No visual presentation
together
presentation with 1 or for peers to view
presentation either no visuals
technology based or
poster based with 3
or more visuals

Student is able to
accurately answer a
few questions posed
by classmates about
the topic.

Student is unable to
accurately answer
questions posed by
classmates about the
topic.

Stays on Topic Stays on topic all

Stays on topic most Stays on topic some

(99-90%) of the
(89%-75%) of the
time.
time.

It was hard to tell what

the topic was.

went more in
depth with the
topic

Added a good
amount of new
information and
educated the class

hardly went past the

basic information that
the teacher presented
on.

(100%) of the time.

Added a significant
amount of new
information that was
not presented on by
the teacher

Added more basic

information but mainly
copied teachers
information