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Careers New Zealand

Careers New Zealand: Gardener

For Students 9th - 10th
Although based out of New Zealand, this site provides quality information on the occupation of gardening. Information includes typical tasks and duties, personal requirements needed for the job, education requirements, typical working...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Rooftop Gardens: Are They a Cool Idea?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Around the world, rooftops are being transformed into living green expanses. Besides beauty, rooftop gardens have a number of advantages, including growing food and taking carbon dioxide out of the air while releasing breathable oxygen....
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Musee D'orsay: Mary Cassatt, Girl in the Garden

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, this is an image, description and explanation with an accompanying link to other facts about the American Impressionist painting "Girl in the Garden" by Mary Cassatt.
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Garden Club of America: Good Gardening Practices to Protect Your Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
An information sheet on how to protect the environment while growing a garden. Can be downloaded as a PDF document.
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World Wide School

World Wide School: Etext of "The Troll Garden and Selected Stories"

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
eBook
World Wide School

World Wide School: The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield (Full Text)

For Students 9th - 10th
You can read a full text version of Katherine Mansfield's book of short stories, "The Garden Party" at this site.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: A White House Garden Harvest

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Michelle Obama started a garden on the grounds of the White House in 2009. This article features her invitation to children to join her while to conduct her final harvest since they will be leaving the White House during the winter of 2016.
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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Colonial Williamsburg: Gardening in the 18th Century

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Site offers students the opportunity to design their own gardens. Several disciplines can be used through this imaginative group lesson.
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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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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Japanese Stone Lanterns [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A study of the stone lanterns that can be found in Japanese gardens. Students will learn about their history and symbolism, and create lanterns of their own out of clay. This is designed to be in conjunction with a visit to a Japanese...
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Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: "A Girl's Garden" by Robert Frost

For Students 9th - 10th
[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site offers the text and audio of "A Girl's Garden" by Robert Frost.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Beautiful Garden

For Students 4th - 6th
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of The Beautiful Garden, a fiction book for children.
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Other

Finca La Isla's Botanical Garden

For Students 9th - 10th
This page is part of the Web of "Talamanca Discovery", an organization that promotes ecotourism in Costa Rica. The page provides information about Finca la Isla's Botanical Garden, open to tourists.
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Other

Better Homes and Gardens: Knitting 101

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Better Homes and Gardens contains wonderful information on the basics of knitting. An outline in link form is provided with information on subjects such as: needles, single cast-on, purl stitch, slip-stitch, stranding...
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Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: The Garden of Love

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem from William Blake's Songs of Experience, "The Garden of Love", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Scott Becker and can access a printable version of this piece.
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Texas A&M University

For Kids: Nutrition in the Garden

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides all types of garden activity ideas on nutrition. It contains eight activities that students can do at home with resources that can be rounded up from a backyard garden.
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University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Garden Design [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
This task challenges a student to use understanding of area to find the area of shapes on a grid.
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Texas A&M University

Easy Gardening. . . Beets [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Let's you know all about this cool weather crop. Soil Preparation, fertilizing, planting, varieties, insect concerns, harvesting and more. Requires Adobe Reader.
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TES Global

Tes: Schemes of Work: Prose. The Monster Garden by Vivien Alcock.

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan will engage students in a shared reading of Vivien Alcock's novel, The Monster Garden. As a post-reading activity, 6th graders will learn about book review writing. Then students will...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Watermelon Watch Your Garden Grow

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about delicious watermelon! Growing, varieties, nutrition, recipes, and photos are allincluded.
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Children's Museum

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Plants Alive: Garden in a Glove Journal

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will observe the germination and growth of plants from seeds over the course of several days, and record their observations in a journal.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Zoos for Kids: Zoological Gardens and Their Animals

For Students 1st - 5th
Kids learn about the zoo. History and types of zoological gardens. List of Zoos with interesting animals.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Rock Walls and Piles

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how to use rocks and other features to maximize growth in a garden.
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library:garden Lesson Plans: Fruit Salad Hold the Dna, Please [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
After learning about DNA and how it is used in crime scene analysis, learners take part in a lab activity where they extract DNA from ripened fruit.

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