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Planning A School Garden

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Students discover how to plan a vegetable garden. Each student take responsibility for growing one vegetable from seed, to transplanting the seedling into the soil, and providing the plant with light, moisture, temperature and healthy soil.

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Grade
9th - 10th
Subjects
Math
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Resource Type
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For Teacher Use
Instructional Strategy
Project-Based Learning

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