Unit Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: My First Garden

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learning about gardens, flowers, vegetables and the principles of horticulture can be a really fun experience. Discover about the beauty of gardens, and the care involved in planning, nurturing and enjoying the benefits of gardening in a...
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BBC

Bbc: Did You Know? Flowers

For Students 3rd - 8th
This BBC "Gardening with Children" section walks through the important process of pollination. Learn exactly what pollination is, along with pollination with and without insects. Finally, learn some unique facts about pollination and...
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science of Gardening

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore this site to get the "dirt" on dirt. Explore a savage garden or choose from the various aspects of gardening: feed, control or bloom.
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Other

Mangolia Plantation and Its Gardens

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains information on the Mangolia Plantation and It's Gardens located in Charleston, South Carolina. You can click on the link "The Gardens", and a new page will come up with pictures of the garden and with a description of...
Handout
Texas A&M University

Tamu: Aggie Horticulture: School Gardens

For Students 3rd - 5th
Teachers and students interested in finding information on how to start a garden in their school will find this site very helpful. This site, sponsored by the Department of Horticulture Sciences at Texas A&M University, includes a...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Curious George: Flower Garden

For Students Pre-K - K
This Curious George game will teach children numbers, counting, and cardinality by using a number line.
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Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech Horticulture Garden

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information on the Virginia Tech Horticulture Garden located in Blacksburg. If you click on the link "Photographs" you will see how two different gardens were constructed. Click on "What's Blooming" and get a beautiful...
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Other

Denver Botanic Gardens

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents information on the Denver Botanic Gardens in Colorado. There are five different gardens within the larger structure, they are: the plant collections, the chatfield arboretum, the japanese garden, the tropical botanica,...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Schools Online: My First Garden

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive guide to "plan[ning], nurtur[ing], and enjoy[ing] the benefits of a beautiful flower or vegetable garden," "My First Garden" clearly relays the basic steps necessary in creating a garden and provides a detailed "Teacher's...
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Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Biology of Plants: Pollination

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn the parts of a flower and how a plant gets pollinated. Includes video, songs, diagrams, and lesson plans.
eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Who Loves Flowers?

For Students K - 1st
A storybook about the beauty of flowers. Includes audio narration in English, Spanish, and Turkish with text in English.
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Other

Resources for Implementation: Flower Gardens

For Teachers 3rd
A instructional activity that teaches students about fractions by locating them on a number line.
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Other

Alabama Cooperative Extension System: Container Gardening

For Students 9th - 10th
Everything you would need to know about container gardening is at this site. The benefits of container gardening, how to choose a container, how to select a soil mixture, how to select plants, planting, fertilizing, watering, and other...
Interactive
Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Gardening and Flowers

For Students 9th - 10th
This page offers a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using 23 vocabulary words pertaining to Gardening and Flowers. It also provides an extensive gardening word list, gardening tips, and lesson plan ideas.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Carl's Garden Problem

For Teachers 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Carl who wants to plant a garden. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Other

Botanical Garden at Gottingen

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information on the Botanical Garden at Gottingen University located in Germany. If you click on the sub-heading "Subjects and History",an English text will come up presenting further details on the garden.
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Other

Zilker Botanical Gardens

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information on the Zilker Botanical Gardens located in Austin, Texas. If you click on "Main Features, there will be descriptions of all the small gardens within the large garden. You can also check out pictures of the...
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Other

Kumamoto University: Medicinal Plant Garden

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information on the Medicinal Plant Garden located in Japan. The web page presents a list of all the plants the garden contains, and their pictures.
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Other

Anderson Japanese Gardens

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents information on the Anderson Gardens in Rockford, Illinois. If you click on the link "Tours", a new page will appear with a map of the entire garden. Click on any number on the map to see a picture as well as find out...
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Other

National Gardening Association: Kids Gardening

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This complete resource for parents, teachers, and students on gardening provides information about creating and maintaining a school garden. List your garden in the registry of school gardens. Includes information about garden projects...
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Other

Florida Gardener: Flower Parts

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the parts of a flower. Do all flowers have the same parts? Do all flowers reproduce in the same manner? Answers to these questions and more are found here, along with many defined terms.
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Other

Mendel Web: Flower Structure

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents a diagram of flower, followed by a focus on Gregor Mendel's experiments on a flowering species of the pea.
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Royal Collection Trust (UK)

Royal Collection: Artist's Illustrations of Plants in English Gardens

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Royal Collection in London, this is a short biography and selection of floral illustrations that made up part of the 154 plate "Flower Book" by the gentelmen gardener Alexander Marshal (c.1620-1682).
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Investigation: Dissect a Flower [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lab activity where students carefully dissect a flower and learn about its different parts. Materials may require sharp dissection instruments. Includes extension activities and test preparation questions.