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Curated OER

Nutrition and Health and School Gardening

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students examine how healthy eating contributes to a healthy body and life style. They read nutritional labels on food items. They use the Five Foods Pyramid to evaluate their own eating habits. They plan, design, and create a school...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Native Plants at School -- A Garden Landscape Project

For Students 5th - 7th
In this native plants at school -- a garden landscape project worksheet, students design the landscape for a school garden by identifying native plants, creating a presentation and creating a plot plan within the budget.  This page has...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

4-H Horticulture and Gardening- Intermediate Learner's Page

For Students 6th - 8th
In this 4-H horticulture and gardening worksheet, students study how some of the food they eat is the stems, roots, leaves, seeds, and flowers of plants by completing a fill-in-the-blank activity and a word search page. They examine the...
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Study Guide
Spark Notes

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett: Study Guide - Mini Essays

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 8 short answer and essay questions about Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden. Students may check some of their answers online.
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Interactive
Curated OER

The Secret Garden Quiz

For Students 6th - 12th
In this online interactive reading comprehension activity, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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University of Wisconsin

Measuring Slope for Rain Gardens

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
The slope of the land is an important feature when considering the erosion that will occur. In this resource, which is part of a rain garden unit, learners calculate the slope of the proposed garden site. Even if you are not planning a...
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Lesson Plan
Captain Planet Foundation

Worm Your Way Out of This

For Teachers 3rd
How can you provide healthy soil for your garden? Study worms, bacteria, and other microorganisms in a lesson about decomposition and organic compost. After discussing what you know about worms and watching a video, watch what worms do...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Gardening in Containers

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners plant a garden. In this gardening activity, students use containers to plant a garden. This activity provides a good source of information for teachers who wish to begin their class's own container garden.
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University of Wisconsin

A Rain Garden Year

For Teachers K - 12th
Pupils become plants in an interpretive play that depicts what happens throughout the seasons in a rain garden. As you narrate, students bloom, flower, and go to seed accordingly. The lesson is first in a series of lessons written for...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Garden In a Glove

For Teachers K - 5th
Students investigate the concept of seeds and how they can germinate. They obtain seeds and isolate them in a rubber glove before transplanting them into the ground. The lesson includes a graphic organizer for observations or information.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Alphabet Garden

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders transplant, tend and observe a plant for each letter of the alphabet in a school garden. They work individually to research and select a plant that will grow in their local climate. Students then care for and observe the...
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Lesson Plan
Steven's Institute of Technology

How Does Your Garden Grow?

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
What to do, bunnies are getting into the garden and eating all the carrots! After reading the story Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! the class works together to design a device that will keep those bunnies out of the garden. They get together in...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Creating a Character Chart for the Secret Garden

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The Secret Garden, is a wonderful book to read with your class. After reading, why not employ the lesson plan presented here as a follow up activity? In it, pupils create character charts that portray the tremendous changes that take...
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Activity
Curated OER

Fabric Scrap Flower Garden

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Crafting is fun, it increases eye-hand coordination, and it is a great way to accent any lesson. Celebrate Earth Day by creating scrap fabric flowers for a pop-stick flower garden. Children of all ages will love gluing, cutting, and...
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Activity
Orlando Shakes

Native Gardens: Study Guide

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A study guide for Native Gardens, a dramatic play, introduces theater lovers to a set of a neighbors and the problems they face. Discussion questions in the guide tackle themes of racism, ageism, and classism.
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Unit Plan
New York City Department of Education

Isabella’s Garden

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Create rows and rows of vegetables. Pupils use their knowledge of multiplication to find the number of vegetable shoots planted in a garden and ways to arrange the vegetables in the performance task. Teachers use the suggested unit...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Radish Seed Garden - Growth Data Table

For Students 2nd - 4th
Radishes are great plants to use in any unit on gardening. They are easy to germinate from seed. The worksheet has groups of gardeners plant two radish seeds in one container, and four radish seeds in another. They use this worksheet to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Conservation in Small Places - Composting

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
A fabulous lesson introduces the art of composting to your gardeners. In it, youngsters learn about the composting process and how it actually works. They discuss the environmental benefits of composting, and use the "lasagna" method...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Flutter Farm

For Teachers 5th
  Students create their own butterfly garden and follow a participation plan to ensure that everyone will have a hand in the garden.  In this gardening lesson, 5th graders log their progress with their garden by taking photos, and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

MONET'S GARDEN BY THE SEA

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students establish their own design utilizing a similar composition to Monet's, integrate their drawing skills in creating a "garden by the sea."
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Lesson Plan
Captain Planet Foundation

Sorting Out Soils

For Teachers K
Sift through soil and learn about why it's important for organic processes. After discussing what makes up soil, such as the living organisms and what types of soil have more nutrients, kids sample layers of mulch and deeper soil to...
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University of Wisconsin

Sizing a Rain Garden

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Most appropriate if you are applying the entire unit to build a rain garden at your school, this installment involves calculating the area that will drain into it. Your garden planners will need data from previous lessons, so this one...
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Education Outside

Animal Homes in the Garden

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders journey to the school garden to examine the habitats of garden animals. Using the provided graphic organizer, kids locate and sketch a critter and its habitat before returning it to its home.
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University of Wisconsin

Conjunction Function

For Teachers 1st - 12th
As part of a unit, this lesson familiarizes youngsters with components of a rain garden. They speculate about the role of an assigned component in contributing to a rain garden, and ultimately, in the health of the local watershed. Each...

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