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Grow Your Own Grub

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students create a recipe book.  In this produce lesson, 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 class recipe...
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Native American Herb Pouch

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students investigate the uses of herbs by Native Americans, create their own herb pouch, and collect local wild herb specimens. They study local herbs, their history, and uses. Students use construnction paper to make a replica of a...
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Yerbas y Remdios: A New Look

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students explore human health by participating in a medicine class activity. In this herbs instructional activity, students identify plants which Native Americans used throughout history to cure illnesses. Students research specific...
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Container Gardening: American History Herb Garden

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this settler's garden worksheet, students write which herbs they chose to grow and how the settlers used that herb. Students fill in 3 herbs and 3 ways the settlers used them.
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Herb Gardening: Discover New Words in Herbs

For Students 3rd - 6th
For this herbs worksheet, students discover new words in herbs by creating other words from letters in the herb. Students do this for 4 herbs and name the correct herb for 4 herbs.
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Herb Gardening: Herb Acrostic

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this herb acrostic worksheet, students complete an acrostic activity where they make a sentence out of the first letter of names of different herbs. Students complete 4 acrostic sentences.
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Herb Gardening: Favorite Foods

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this herbs worksheet, students look up recipes to 4 different meals and write the herbs that are used to cook them. Students then answer 2 short answer questions.
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Herb Garden

For Students 4th - 6th
In this herb gardening instructional activity, students explore a garden and find specific things throughout the herb garden. They then write down the answers to the 3 questions and make sketches in the herb booklet.
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Herbs

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this herbs worksheet, students view, sample and discuss eighteen main herbs used in cooking and circle each one in a word search puzzle.
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Weeds-Wild and Wonderful

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students compare and contrast weeds and desirable plants. They explore the ways which their ancestors used weeds and depended on them for food and other household necessities.
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Southernwood, Mint and Sage

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this herb worksheet, students learn about southernwood, mint and sage. They look at pictures of the herbs and then read how they can be used in remedies. The last page is blank so that the student can draw a picture of their herb.