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Native American Herb Pouch

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students investigate the uses of herbs by Native Americans, create their own herb pouch, and collect local wild herb specimens. They study local herbs, their history, and uses. Students use construnction paper to make a replica of a...
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Herbs

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this herbs worksheet, students view, sample and discuss eighteen main herbs used in cooking and circle each one in a word search puzzle.
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Herb Gardening: Discover New Words in Herbs

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this herbs activity, students discover new words in herbs by creating other words from letters in the herb. Students do this for 4 herbs and name the correct herb for 4 herbs.
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Container Gardening: American History Herb Garden

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this settler's garden worksheet, students write which herbs they chose to grow and how the settlers used that herb. Students fill in 3 herbs and 3 ways the settlers used them.
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Herb Garden

For Students 4th - 6th
For this herb gardening worksheet, students explore a garden and find specific things throughout the herb garden. They then write down the answers to the 3 questions and make sketches in the herb booklet.
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Herb Gardening: Favorite Foods

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this herbs worksheet, students look up recipes to 4 different meals and write the herbs that are used to cook them. Students then answer 2 short answer questions.
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Herb Gardening: Herb Acrostic

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this herb acrostic worksheet, students complete an acrostic activity where they make a sentence out of the first letter of names of different herbs. Students complete 4 acrostic sentences.
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Herb, The Vegetarian Dragon

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use the Internet.  In this reading comprehension lesson plan, students read the story Herb, The Vegetarian Dragon and answer comprehension questions.  Students use the Internet to complete other activities associated with the...
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Tudor Homes- The Still Room and Herb Garden

For Students 5th - 8th
In this Tudor homes worksheet, students read about the importance of the still room and the herb garden in Tudor life. They locate and identify herbs, sketch a plan of a herb garden at Blakesley Hall, draw an herb, and locate a recipe...
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Herb Gardening: Which Herb?

For Students 4th - 8th
In this herbs worksheet, students play a game where they write the herb and its characteristics after being blindfolded and identifying each herb. Students then answer 1 short answer question.
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McCarthyism: The Political Cartoons of Herb Block

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine McCarthyism. In this Cold War lesson, students analyze 6 political cartoons by Herb Block that capture the essence of the Red Scare. Students discuss the cartoons and the fear of communism that permeated America. 
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Grow Your Own Grub

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students create a recipe book.  In this produce lesson, students watch a selection of the harvest animations from the BBC Dig In website, taste some of the vegetable and herbs they've been growing and discuss creating a class recipe...
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Horticultural Society of New York

Dress Up Your Salad

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Salad dressings use a variety of different ingredients, but it's important to have a healthy balance of greens to create a delicious mix. Young chefs examine five types of herbs including chives, basil, dill, parsley, and thyme to make a...
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Yerbas y Remdios: A New Look

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Learners explore human health by participating in a medicine class activity. In this herbs lesson, students identify plants which Native Americans used throughout history to cure illnesses. Learners research specific herbs in groups and...
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Using the Herb Garden at Blakesley Hall

For Students 4th - 8th
In this Blakesley Hall herb garden worksheet, students explore the herb garden at Blakesley Hall. This worksheet gives suggestion for activities while on this field trip.
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Understanding the Complexities of Setting with Where the Lilies Bloom

For Teachers 6th - 8th
After reading Where the Lilies Bloom and researching the wildflowers and herbs mentioned in the novel, class members create a mural that reflects the setting of the novel. Groups design the background, the houses of the characters, the...
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McCarthyism: 60 Years Later

For Students 9th - 12th
Explore legendary cartoonist Herb Block's bold challenge of McCarthy-era politics through this analysis activity. Two cartoons are included, along with talking points to prompt analysis and background information to help pupils "read...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Salad Dressing

For Teachers 5th Standards
Aunt Barb's salad dressing is a mixture of oil, vinegar, salt, herbs, and a pinch of math. Fifth graders add the fractional measurements of ingredients to find a total amount. The fractions have unlike denominators. After finding the...
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Herblock at 100

For Students 8th - 12th
In celebration of renowned cartoonist Herb Block's Library of Congress exhibition, this handout includes 2 of his famous political cartoons for scholars to analyze. Background information describes "Herblock's" career, and talking points...
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Channel Islands Film

The Legendary King of San Miguel: Lesson Plan 3 - Grades 9-12

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The documentary, The Legendary King of San Miguel Island, introduces the fascinating tale of Herb Lester, his family, and their life on San Miguel Island. Viewers have an opportunity to expand their study of the island and of Lester's...
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Southernwood, Mint and Sage

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this herb worksheet, students learn about southernwood, mint and sage. They look at pictures of the herbs and then read how they can be used in remedies. The last page is blank so that the student can draw a picture of their herb.
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Herbs: Healthy Alternatives or Bad Medicine??

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students compare herbal and pharmaceutical remedies for common ailments.
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Sachets and Nosgays

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
An impressive lesson plan on the many uses of gardens during the Colonial and Federal periods of history is here for you. In it, learners explore the uses of flowers and herbs grown in gardens at that time; from deodorants, to insect...
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Outside Education

Handmade Fettuccine

For Teachers 4th Standards
Young chefs engage in an interdisciplinary cooking lesson converting measurements within a recipe, crafting noodles, gathering herbs from the school garden, and making fettuccine for a class luncheon.

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