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California Natives / Peoples & Plants
Grades 3 - 4
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The
San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden features
collections of plants that are native to the
five Mediterranean climate zones of the world.
The native peoples of California, in particular
the Central Coast of California, included tribes
of the Chumash and the Salinans.
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These creative and clever people survived on the Central Coast
of California for tens of thousands of years.
They utilized the natural world around them
including plants, animals, rocks and minerals in
order to survive generation to generation.
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The California
Natives tour at the San Luis Obispo Botanical
Garden is a fascinating study in Ethnobotany.
Ethnobotany is "the plant lore of a race of
people, or the botany of a culture other than
ours." (Webster’s Dictionary) It is
studying the ongoing relationship between people
and plants. The Chumash and the Salinan peoples
relied on plants for their food, medicines,
tools, building materials as well as part of
their religious life.
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The materials are
aligned with the Science & Social Studies
Content Standards for California Public School.
They are integrated with language arts, science,
history and math lesson plans. We hope you enjoy
discovering the Ethnobotany lessons that can be
learned at the San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden.
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BASIC CONCEPTS
The garden tour is designed to illustrate five key concepts:
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There are five Mediterranean
climate regions of the world.
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California
native plants are plants that were growing in
California before plants from other parts of
the world were introduced.
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Native plants
provided native peoples with food, medicine,
shelter, tools, crafts, transportation, and
recreation.
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Native peoples
learned how to use plants in the local
environment through years of observing and
experimenting, trial and error, and then
passed this information along to the next
generation.
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California
Native Americans valued their environment and developed
ways to use the resources of their world
without destroying them.
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California State Standards Covered
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3rd |
4th |
Science |
3.c |
3.a |
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History/ |
3.1.2. |
4.1.3. |
Social Science |
3.2.1., 3.2.2. |
4.2.1., 4.1.5. |
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Language Arts |
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Reading |
1.5 |
1.4 |
Reading Comprehension |
2.6 |
2.2 |
Literary Response |
3.2 |
3.4 |
Writing |
1.1 |
1.2 |
Writing Applications |
2.2 |
2.1 |
Written & Oral English |
1.3 |
1.1 |
Language Conventions |
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Listening & Speaking |
1.3 |
1.3 |
Strategies |
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Speaking Applications |
2.3 |
2.1 |
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Click here to sign up for a
tour.
Click here to
view the Pre-school tour details.
Click here to view the
Discover Mediterranean Plants tour details.
Click here to view the
Mediterranean Plant Adaptations tour details.
Click here to
view the Learning from the Land tour details.
Click here
to view the World Ethnobotany tour details.
Click here to
view the Biogeography tour details.
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