Grow and Multiply: Designing a Veggie Patch

Give multiplication and division a real-world purpose as students design a sustainable veggie patch for their school. Grow and Multiply: Designing a Veggie Patch is a complete five-lesson Years 3–4 Design and Technologies unit with integrated Mathematics learning and a culminating assessment.

Students investigate what makes a smart veggie patch, describe how food travels from farm to fork, and represent multiplication and division through arrays and equal groups. They compare garden layouts, respond to a courtyard design brief, plan and communicate a solution, test and improve their ideas, then present and evaluate their final design.

The unit combines explicit whole-class teaching with printable sorting activities, games, worksheets, open-ended design pages and assessment materials. Editable PowerPoint files make it easy to adapt the teaching presentation and quiz to classroom needs, while seven answer or sample-response pages and a clear rubric support marking and feedback.

What's included

• 26-page unit plan PDF with the complete teaching sequence, printable resources and assessment materials
• 40-slide editable PowerPoint teaching presentation
• 22-slide editable PowerPoint quiz
• 88 pages/slides in total
• Five lessons plus a culminating design assessment
• Seven answer or sample-response pages
• One assessment rubric

Resource list

1. A Smart Veggie Patch classroom display

2. Garden Needs Sort cards and sorting mat

3. Array Harvest Challenge game board and cards

4. Food to Fork worksheet and answer page

5. Garden Arrays worksheets 1–2 and answer pages

6. Divide the Seedlings worksheet and answer page

7. Compare Garden Layouts worksheet and answer page

8. Veggie Patch Design Brief pages 1–2

9. Build, Test, Improve and Reflect pages 1–2

10. Present, Reflect and Review page

11. Courtyard Crop Challenge assessment pages 1–2 and sample-response pages

12. Grow and Multiply assessment rubric

Learning focus

Students explore food production and sustainability; use arrays and equal groups to represent multiplication and division; compare garden layouts; generate and communicate design ideas; plan, make, test and improve a solution; and evaluate a finished design against criteria.

Classroom use

Use this resource as a five-lesson Design and Technologies sequence, an integrated STEM/Mathematics project, garden-themed multiplication and division learning, small-group activity rotations, or an assessment task. The presentation supports teacher-led instruction, while the printable pages provide collaborative, independent and assessed learning opportunities.

Formats, counts and answers

PDF and Microsoft PowerPoint. The product contains 88 pages/slides in total: a 26-page unit plan, 40-slide presentation and 22-slide quiz. Seven answer or sample-response pages are included. Open-ended design tasks are supported by the assessment rubric.

Teacher benefits

• A complete sequence from investigation to final design assessment
• Editable presentation and quiz for whole-class teaching and review
• Ready-to-print activities, worksheets, game components and assessment pages
• Integrated Design and Technologies and Mathematics learning
• Answer support for closed-response and sample assessment tasks
• A rubric for evaluating the final design process and solution

Digital product and licence

Digital download only; no physical item is supplied. Licensed for use by the purchasing educator with their own classes. The files may not be redistributed, resold or shared publicly.