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Creating a School Garden
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.
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago: Activities: Grow a Garden in a Glove
Check out this step-by-step experiment and, before you know it, you'll be growing a garden in a glove.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: A Garden in Lawndale [Pdf]
"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...
Read Works
Read Works: Carl's Garden Problem
[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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Garden Club of America: Good Gardening Practices to Protect Your Environment
An information sheet on how to protect the environment while growing a garden. Can be downloaded as a PDF document.
PBS
The War: Plant a Victory Garden
At the online companion site of the PBS documentary series "THE WAR," view a poster from WWII that calls on citizens to help lessen the demand for store-bought food by planting a garden.
Nature Conservancy
Nature Works Everywhere: Rain Garden Resources
Find some tips on how to plant a rain garden to help filter and absorb rain.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Install Edible Gardens
Find out the benefits of planting a garden that provides a sustainable source of food for people.
Texas A&M University
Aggie Horticulture: Kinder Garden: School Gardens
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.
PBS
Pbs: Count on It!: Blossom and Snappy Go Gardening
Blossom and Snappy decide to plant a garden. They go to Calloway Gardens to learn about different types of plants and flowers, as well as butterflies and hummingbirds.
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University of Idaho Extension: Idaho Landscapes & Gardens: Garden Basics
A gardening resource which addresses basic gardening tips, and also contains information on composting, preparing soil, irrigating, and using pesticides and fertilizers.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Container Gardens
Learn how to maximize the wildlife in a small space by planting a container garden.
Texas A&M University
Tamu: Aggie Horticulture: School Gardens
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...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Tulip Test Gardens
A step-by-step guide to planting, growing and investigating with a garden full of tulips.
Texas A&M University
Easy Gardening. . . Beets [Pdf]
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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National Gardening Association: Kids Gardening
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...
US Department of Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture: Usda Plant Hardiness Zone Map
Interactive USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map shows which plants are most likely to thrive at a specified location. Searchable by zip code, state , or temperature.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: My First Garden
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...
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Plants Alive: Garden in a Glove Journal
Learners will observe the germination and growth of plants from seeds over the course of several days, and record their observations in a journal.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Biology of Plants: Pollination
Learn the parts of a flower and how a plant gets pollinated. Includes video, songs, diagrams, and lesson plans.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Why Is an Apple Like a Suitcase? [Pdf]
A mini-unit on fruits and seeds for younger students. Students will learn that fruit is like a suitcase for seeds, and that together they help plants to reproduce. Includes ELL suggestions, extension activities, and worksheets.
Nature Canada
Nature Canada: How to Plant a Monarch Friendly Garden
Information about how to create your own Monarch butterfly garden in your backyard is provided. There are detailed descriptions of the kinds of milkweed and other wildflower plants that a Monarch butterfly needs in order to lay its...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Gardens: Proper Tree Planting Techniques [Pdf]
This article instructs you on the basics of planting a tree. Topics include: choosing the right tree, preparing the site for planting, planting the tree and after care.
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Alabama Cooperative Extension System: Container Gardening
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...