Find a useful guide to help start a school garden. Kids will dig the class project!

Get all the information needed to begin and maintain a school garden and a composting program. Features include step-by-step slide shows for creating a school garden or compost program.

Use this comprehensive site to create a garden at your school. Topics include: school gardening at a glance, cost estimate worksheet, design: using student ideas, and more.

Four tip sheets on how to grow a rain garden, a pollinator garden, a native habitat garden, and a school garden. Includes links to lots of resources.

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...

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...

There are many opportunities available for younger students to get involved with plants, gardens, and the outdoors in general. Some of these opportunities include children's programs at school gardens, botanic gardens or community...

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...

Orville Edwards describes how community gardens help improve the quality of life in the city in this video segment from WILD TV.

In this unit, students will learn about the difficulty that farmers in Bangladesh and the UK experience trying to grow crops on land that is regularly flooded. Then they will be challenged to make a model of a structure that can float to...

A national charity created to turn schools into green space that celebrate the environment, as well as preserve natural outdoor spaces within Canadian cities, Evergreen has core programs: Learning Grounds - transforming school grounds,...

Students explore different gardens on our school grounds to investigate the natural world using inquiry and their senses. The students will take a guided walk from garden to garden using their observations to notice and wonder how...

This site provides the complete etext for Willa Cather's "The Troll Garden and Selected Stories." Use the left sidebar to navigate through the stories which include "On The Divide," which is the first story to appear on the page.

This site provides the complete etext for James Russell Lowell's work, My Garden Acquaintance.

You can read a full text version of Katherine Mansfield's book of short stories, "The Garden Party" at this site.

Students monitor local ozone by looking in their neighborhoods for ozone-injured plants or establishing similar gardens outside their schools or in their backyards.

This book was created by kindergarten students from the East End Community Charter School in Portland, Maine, as part of an eight-week learning expedition on local food and gardens called, "How Does Your Garden Grow?" These young...

"A Garden in Lawndale" is a one page, non-fiction, reading passage about an eighth grade class who planted a garden in a vacant lot by their school and maintained it to improve their neighborhood. It is followed by constructed-response...

Many examples of work by the group of painters known as the "Ashcan School." Brief history of the group as well.

A one-page glossary of vocabulary that would be used by middle school students to discuss plants.

A lesson plan unit on developing a classroom garden in Texas. Students must prepare a plan by analyzing the climate and which crops are best suited to their locale, how much sun their garden will get, which plants grow well together, and...

Elementary students at the Enterprise Charter School in Buffalo, New York, created this brochure of their local botanical gardens to be used by other students. Each student selected a specific plant to research, photograph, and write...

View a book of poems written by Gonzaga High School students in response to learning about slavery through the Georgetown Slavery Archive.

In this lesson, learners will learn about types of land use by humans and evaluate the ways land is used in their local community. They will also consider the environmental effects of the different types of land use. Students will assume...