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Tamu: Aggie Horticulture: School Gardens HandoutTamu: Aggie Horticulture: School Gardens Handout
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Texas A&M University
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3rd - 5th
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Handout

Tamu: Aggie Horticulture: School Gardens

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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 fun page for kids, ideas, curricula and research for children's gardens.

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Concepts

farming, flowering plants, germination, horticulture, photosynthesis, plant reproduction, plants, pollination, gardening

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garden lesson plans, germinate, grow, indoor science center, plant species, plants lesson plans, pollinate, school garden, tamu: aggie-horticulture: school gardens, flower, plant, seed, vegetable

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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