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Reading Adventure Pack: Gardening
A Reading Adventure Pack invites scholars to start gardening. Following a reading of two books—fiction and nonfiction—young green thumbs repurpose food containers to grow an herb garden in their kitchen, plant seeds in starter pots out...
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Creating a Butterfly Garden and Habitat
This complete set of instructions for creating your very own butterfly garden and habitat is so cool! With some seeds and the handy resources in this activity, you and your class will be able to determine which type of habitat is best...
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Tudor Homes- The Still Room and Herb Garden
In this Tudor homes activity, 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 Garden
In 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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Container Gardening: American History Herb Garden
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 Gardening: Discover New Words in Herbs
In this herbs learning exercise, 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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Herb Gardening: Favorite Foods
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
In this herb acrostic activity, 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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Horticulture and Gardening
This 6 page information packet provides an overview of gardening and plants. Using this activity, students could design their own gardens, using math, science and writing skills. There are 30 questions involved.
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Gardening in Containers
Students plant a garden. In this gardening lesson, students use containers to plant a garden. This lesson provides a good source of information for teachers who wish to begin their class's own container garden.
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Using the Herb Garden at Blakesley Hall
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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Herb Gardening: Which Herb?
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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Botanical Garden Field Trip
Students take a field trip to a botanical garden. In this habitat lesson, students walk through the garden and see various species of plants and animals. Students take a canopy walk and see coniferous trees. Students write about what...
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Nutrients for Plants and People: Food Pyramid Garden
In this garden worksheet, students plant different types of food from the food pyramid into a garden and write a journal about all of the food. Students plant 4 levels of food from the food pyramid.
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Horticulture and Gardening
This answer sheet is made to be a companion to a Horticulture and Gardening worksheet. This could be used as a guide for activities in the classroom.
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The Young Virginia Gardener: Windowsill Gardening-Starting the Garden
In this gardening worksheet, students choose 5 plants from a given list to include in their windowsill garden then read about how to start the garden and answer questions related to keeping it healthy.
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Vegie Gardening
High schoolers investigate the concept of Veggie Gardening and develop the plans for a successful yield of crops. They answer some practical questions and then apply the information to the horticulture garden. The project includes...
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Preserving Buds and Blooms
Students learn how to preserve flower buds and blooms. In this gardening lesson plan, students explore the methods of air drying, using drying agents, and pressing plants to preserve them.
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Growing Garden Companions.
Students understand that some plants grow better with other plants. In this companion planting lesson, students observe the "three sisters" growing system used by the Native Americans. Students understand that small gardens grow better...
Australian National Botanic Gardens
Aboriginal Plant Use in South-Eastern Australia
The Aboriginal people of Australia survived for over 40,000 years by using the plants that grow in the bush for food, medicine, tools, and utensils. Introduce young botanists to the wonders of the Outback with a 25-page packet that...
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Herb, The Vegetarian Dragon
Students use the Internet. For this reading comprehension lesson, students read the story Herb, The Vegetarian Dragon and answer comprehension questions. Students use the Internet to complete other activities associated with the book.
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If It Smells Good, Is Edible, and Attracts Wildlife, Then It's a Practical Garden
Students explore landscape design. In this practical gardening lesson, students design landscape plans that call for shrubs, trees, and plants that can be used for aesthetics, cooking, and wildlife.
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Grow Your Own Grub
Students create a recipe book. In this produce instructional activity, 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...
Horticultural Society of New York
Dress Up Your Salad
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...