Working with the K’ómoks Nation towards Q’waq’wala7owkw on their unceded territory.

Working with the K’ómoks Nation towards Q’waq’wala7owkw on their unceded territory.

RESTORATION PLANTING PLANNING

Suggested Grades: 5 – 8

Driving Questions

  • What is Keeping it Living?
  • Who is involved in Keeping It Living?
  • What things do we need to keep living?

Learning Intentions

  • I can create a budget with income and expenses
  • I can map out an area to be planted

Materials

Curricular Competencies

Science:

  • Planning and conducting
  • Processing and analyzing data and information

Math:

  • Reasoning and analyzing
  • Understanding and solving
  • Communicating and representing

Lesson

  1. This lesson can follow the Coin Box Lesson or stand alone. If following the coin box lesson the amount of money from the coin boxes is the budget for this lesson. If this is stand alone create or give the students an amount of money for the budget. Either way every student should have the same income.
  2. Students choose which kind of plants to plant: a)eelgrass, b)salt marsh, c)land based native plants. Using the Planting Prices and Specifications sheet provided they can decide how many they can afford (Grade 7’s need to add 0.05% for gst and 0.07% for pst).
  3. Using the Planting Prices and Specifications sheet they can create a drawing on grid paper of the area to be planted with symbols showing the plants and create a Planting Summary Report that details where, how, and when to plant (taking things like tides into consideration).
  4. Students to review their and others planting plans in small groups, discuss which got more plants planted, which covered more area. Each group to report their finding back to the class.

Click here to download a printable version of this lesson

Planting Prices and Specifications:

Plants Cost before tax Plant Spacing Planting Area
Eelgrass – Zostera marina (Intertidal) $50/bunch of 10 1 m apart – planted in bunches of 10 On the beach between the low and high water marks
Eelgrass – Zostera marina (Subtidal) $100/bunch of 10    1 m apart – planted in bunches of 10 Below the low water mark in areas that are always under water
Salt Marsh – Silverweed $1.05 30 cm apart In the lowest zone of the salt marsh area
Salt Marsh – Carex $1.05 30 cm apart Anywhere in the salt marsh area
Salt Marsh – Sea Asparagus $2.25 30 cm apart In the lowest zone of the salt marsh area
Salt Marsh – Sweetgrass $2.25 30 cm apart In the mid to high zones in the salt marsh area
Shrub – Nootka Rose $4.75 50 cm apart In the upland area above the salt marsh area
Shrub – Salmonberry $4.75 50 cm apart In the upland area above the salt marsh area
Shrub – Red Flowering Currant $5.50 50 cm apart In the upland area above the salt marsh area
Shrub – Snowberry $8.50 50 cm apart In the upland area above the salt marsh area
Tree – Western Flowering Dogwood $25.00  1 m apart On the outer edge of the upland area
Tree – Sitka Spruce $30.00 1 m apart On at the outer edge of the upland area
Tree – Western Red Cedar $30.00 1 m apart On the outer edge of the upland area
Tree – Douglas Fir $30.00 1 m apart On the outer edge of the upland area

 

Community Connection

Contact a non-profit such as Project Watershed to organize a real planting in the spring.

projectwatershed@gmail.com