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Grow Your Own Grub
Learners create a recipe book. In this produce instructional activity, students watch a selection of the harvest animations from the BBC Dig In website, taste some of the vegetable and herbs they've been growing and discuss creating a...
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Garden Tag
Students create mini "gardens" in recycled clothing boxes. They recycle old seed and flower catalogs and "plant" cut-out flowers in their gardens.
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
In this how does your garden grow worksheet, students read about indoor gardening, how to grow herbs, fruits or vegetables, then look at 5 pictures and write the correct name for that biome from the names given.
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Schoolyard Biodiversity Investigation Educator Guide
In 1980, in the tropical rainforests of Panama, scientists discovered 1,200 species of beetles living in and around just 19 trees, with most of the species new to science—that's biodiversity! In the activity, learners work in teams to...
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Rubber Gardens
Students recycle discarded automobile tires and create gardening sites for limited space areas.
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Growing a Winter Garden
Second graders listen to a planting story as read by their teacher. Using the text, they summarize the events and complete a KWL chart. They point to the vegetable after it was planted in the garden in the story. They practice using new...
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Planting A Garden On Campus
Students investigate the school campus area in order to plan the best spot for a class garden. They create a map of the school and research the different types of soil that exist in order to find the best spot. The class takes the...
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Plantable Pulp Cards
What a great way to give a gift that keeps on giving! These homemade plantable cards are not only beautiful, but can be planted into the ground to sprout in the right season. Incorporate this project in a science unit, or for a Mother's...
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Pizza Garden
Learners get involved in growing veggies so they may start eating them more!
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Garbage in the Garden
Students create their own compost. In this soil lesson, students fill a bag with waste and soil, in order to create a mini compost bin. Students observe the baggies over a 6 week period, they record their findings and collect data on...
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Yummy for my tummy!
First graders read the story Tops and Bottoms and identify vegetables that are eaten from the stem, root, and leaf of a plant. In this vegetables lesson plan, 1st graders learn vocabulary about different vegetable parts and write journal...
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Where Do They Grow?
Students complete worksheets. In this fruits and vegetables lesson, students complete a worksheet on where fruits and vegetables grow where they draw connecting lines. Students color fruits and vegetables on a worksheet.
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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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A Seed Dispersal Investigation
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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The Young Virginia Gardener: Create a Plant
For this gardening worksheet, students draw a plant on a poster board, cutting out pictures of vegetables from magazines and gluing them on the leaves of their drawn plant in the proper places: stem vegetables, fruit vegetables and seed...
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The Young Virginia Gardener: Garden Pests and Problems-Insects
In this garden pests and problems worksheet, students read about insects and research what insects use their antenna for, comparing 2 or 3 different types.
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Desert Plant Detectives
Students examine and categorize plants in their own schoolyard desert garden and then observe other plant areas of their schoolyard.
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Food Preservation: Food Science, Canning, Gardening
Learners consider the procedures and safety issues involved in food preservation. They conduct experiments in canning, freezing and drying. If everyone can preserve food utilizing a variety of methods and science principles, the lesson...
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Two Beets Or Not Two Beets—What Is Your Question?
Students use the scientific method to test an idea regarding the structures of a plant as it supports the biological evidence for life. In this growing roots lesson, students use organizing sheets to record their findings. Students...
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Edible Bug Project
Students recognize the characteristics of insects. In this edible bugs activity, students observe the body parts of an insect. Students create an edible insect using a grape, carrot sticks and sorrel stems and leaves. Students share...
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The Enormous "Kinder" Garden
Students discover books about planting enormous things. In this reading lesson plan, students experience several books centered around growing enormous plants. Cross curricular activities are included
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Martin Mulch Worksheet
In this recognizing compostable items worksheet, students make lists of fruits and vegetables, write writing words for environmental words, solve a crossword puzzle, and read instructions for a greenhouse garden in a plastic bag....
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What Are Heritage Plants?
Pupils listen to a story, plant seeds, and study about heritage seeds. They read seed packages for plant needs and sizes, plant seeds. They read story "How Groundhog's Garden Grew" which covers many activities of planting, growing...
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Producers and Consumers
Students make lists of producers and consumers and act as consumers that eat producers in a garden. In this producers and consumers lesson plan, students demonstrate a food chain by using a piece of yarn to connect all of them together.