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Bobby Banana's Garden

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this Bobby Banana's garden worksheet, students count how many fruits Bobby has picked from his garden and color the graph to show how many of each fruit Bobby picked.
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Box Cars Math Games

For Teachers K - 5th
Students grow vegetable sections without soil, using water and pebbles or small rocks. They explain different ways that plants grow and grow vegetable sections using water and small rocks.
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What a Garden Can Teach Us

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read "Seedfolks" and "What a Garden Can Teach Us" and discuss how a garden is like a community. They create a class quilt illustrating how their classroom community the lines of the poem.
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What Kind of Garden Would Grow in Our Schoolyard?

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students perform soil tests for pH, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, composition and water percolation rate and assess the conditions in the schoolyard.
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Poetry

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students write a poem. In this language arts lesson, students discuss what they hear and see in a garden. Students write a poem about the sights, sounds and smells of the garden.
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A Seed Dispersal Investigation

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate the function and purpose of seed dispersal. In this garden lesson, students examine the importance of wind in the plant cycle. Students construct a flying seed model from an attached design and discuss if it can be...
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Plants Around a Building

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners discover environmental factors of plant growth. In this environment lesson, students read action cards describing various environmental factors. Learners then search to find an example of the situation listed on the action card.
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Growing Money

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students establish a garden business. In this building a business lesson, students investigate how to create and build a business. Students build a business of selling plants and become entrepreneurs.
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Exploring Texture In the Garden

For Teachers K
Students explore the garden environment. In this garden environment lesson, students investigate the needs and parts of a plant. Students discover the differences between fruits and vegetables while creating their own garden.
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Birdseed Garden

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students create their own garden. In this plant growth lesson, students sprinkle a damp sponge with birdseeds. Students place the sponge in the sun and watch the seeds sprout.
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Flower Stepping Stones

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars make garden stepping stones out of mortar, sand and glass. In this lesson integrating science and art, students mix mortar and sand topping to compose and create a floral design for their stepping stone.
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Seed to Plate

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students record the development of a garden on digital cameras and research the nutrition that comes from growing food in a garden. In this garden and nutrition lesson plan, students also explain to younger students the importance of...
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Carrot Heads Garden

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners create a carrot garden. In this gardening lesson, students discuss the conditions needed in order to grown plants while creating their own garden. They read the story The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss. 
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Garden Pests and Problems: Insects in your garden

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this garden worksheet, learners answer short answer questions about insects that they find in their garden. Students complete 4 short answer questions.
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Nutrients for Plants and People: Food Pyramid Garden

For Students 2nd - 8th
In this garden learning exercise, 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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Ratios in the Garden

For Students 4th - 6th
In this ratios worksheet, students answer questions about the ratios of the area of each section of a garden and then complete their own garden in a grid. Students answer 5 questions.
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The Joy of a Garden-Earth Day

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore the purpose of a garden. In this Earth Day lesson, students read the story The Gardener and complete a Venn diagram comparing life in a city to farm life. Students discuss Earth Day and plant flowers in a garden .
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A Teeny Tiny Garden Alphabet Book

For Students K - 2nd
For this alphabet garden book worksheet, students cut out, color and assemble a mini book. Each page has an alphabet letter and a picture of a garden-related object. Example: Kk- K is for Kohlrabi.
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What is Climate?

For Students 6th - 8th
In this weather worksheet, students read a brief excerpt that compares the various types of climates found on Earth. Then they explain where the low- and high-pressure systems follow each other throughout the year.
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Gardening Puzzle

For Students 1st - 4th
In this garden word search puzzle, students identify words related to gardening. Examples include a hoe, a bee, and flowers. A list of 18 words is provided to assist the students in their search.
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Ladybugs Welcome Here

For Students K - 1st
In this coloring worksheet, students examine a black line drawing of a garden with flowers, ladybugs and a sign that reads "Ladybugs Welcome Here." Students color the picture.
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Lady Scarecrow Coloring Page

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this coloring page, students examine a detailed black line drawing of a scarecrow dressed in women's clothing-- with a crow on her shoulder. Students color the picture.
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Pollinators at Work in The Garden

For Students K - 3rd
In this science related learning exercise, students are asked to visit a garden and record how many pollinators they notice and record their findings on the tally sheet provided.
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Word Search Plants And Seeds

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this word search worksheet, students find the names of 24 specific terms having to do with plants and seeds in a flower shaped puzzle. There is a word bank.