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Metamorphosis Magic
Students make different motions for each stage in the butterfly life cycle and plant a garden. In this butterfly life cycle lesson plan, students can take the mini gardens home and discuss how butterflies help gardens.
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Linflower Seeds
How does your garden grow? Use proportions to help Tim answer that question. By using their understanding of proportional relationships, pupils determine the number of seeds that will sprout. They create their own linear relationships...
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Zen Gardens
Students study the design elements and symbolism of Japanese gardens through a hands-on lesson in Zen Garden design.
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May Baskets
Students create a May Basket. In this cutting and pasting art lesson, students use pictures of flowers from magazines to create a bouquet of flowers. Students cut the pictures out, past them to toothpicks and arrange them in the basket.
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Soil Testing and Measurement
Students prepare their garden plot. In this gardening lesson, students use the Internet or book on plants to make sure the plants they have selected will be able to grow in their garden. The students assess and mark out the garden...
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Seasonal Scroll Painting
Students take a field trip to a Botanical Gardens. They observe plants and the seasonal changes they go through and create their own scroll painting.
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Germination Observations
Students germinate seeds under a variety of conditions. First, students read and discuss the background of gardening. After reviewing germination and the steps to the scientific method, groups of students complete experiments.
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Botanical Illustration with Watercolor Activity
Students examine anatomy of flowers as depicted in watercolor drawings, and create their own artwork.
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Berenstain Bears: Grow It
Second graders read several books and complete an activity that coincides with each book. i.e. They read 'Berenstain Bears: Grow It' by Stan and Jan Berenstain and then decorate a flower pot, plant flower seeds in it and record their...
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Snuggle Up To Pattern Blocks
Learners view and discuss a video about the use of pattern block shapes to form pictures. They, in groups, form garden and quilt designs using pattern blocks and then decorate the room with their art.
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Creating a Japanese Garden Lantern in Crea-Stone
Students create a Japanese Garden Lantern. In this step-by-step ceramics lesson, students follow simple how-to directions to mold and create a Japanese Garden Lantern out of Crea-Stone.
Forest Foundation
Forest Health
Young foresters examine the strategies, like prescribed burns and thinning, that are employed to ensure healthy forests.
Captain Planet Foundation
Adopt-A-Plant
Note the way that plants change during the season by adopting a plant on your school campus. After your class chooses their plant, they research the plant's needs, how it differs from other plants, find ways to support their plant's...
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In the Company of Wild Butterflies
Students discover the life cycle of a butterfly and explain the different stages. In this exploratory instructional activity students watch a video and create insect art and they will get an opportunity to view live specimens of...
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Kid Garden Math
Pupils design a geometric garden. Shapes to be included are squares, triangles, and hexagons. After reading a book together about shapes, students get to use construction paper to cut out and design their own shape garden.
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Planting a Garden Through Dance
Students create a dance study based on the growth cycle of a flower. They improvise movements that relate to each stage of growth. They create artwork on the growth cycle of a flower. They perform their dances for the whole class.
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Garden of Letters
Students use locomotor movements, spatial awareness, and letter recognition. They play "Queen Bee of the Garden." Students perform locomotor movements (walk, jump, etc.) called by the teacher as a way to get around the garden.
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Flower Power: An Introduction to Heredity
Students observe flowers and how they grow according to heredity. In this flowers lesson plan, students observe physical traits that make flowers the offspring of other flowers, and fill out worksheets according to their findings.
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Valentine's Day
Students participate in a gardening activity to learn about the growth process and how to show care. In this garden care instructional activity, students discuss Valentine's Day poems for words of kindness. Students read a poem about a...
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Garden Counting Game
In this counting game worksheet, students construct a number game. Students cut out the ladybug and flower pieces. To play, students count the spots on each ladybug and match to the flowers.
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Garden Counting Game
In this math counting worksheet, students construct a game, cutting out the ladybugs and flowers. To play, count the spots on the ladybug, and match to the numbered flowers.
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Ladybugs Welcome Here
For 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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Word Search Plants And Seeds
In 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.
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THROUGH THE GARDEN GATE
Young scholars bring a flower picture to class. Instructor helps them choose fabrics to reflect the flowers in their picture and interpret their own garden palette and then do a collage quilt.