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Flower Stepping Stones

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students make garden stepping stones out of mortar, sand and glass. In this lesson plan integrating science and art, students mix mortar and sand topping to compose and create a floral design for their stepping stone.
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Growing Money

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students establish a garden business. In this building a business lesson plan, students investigate how to create and build a business. Students build a business of selling plants and become entrepreneurs.
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A Seed Dispersal Investigation

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
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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THROUGH THE GARDEN GATE

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students bring a flower picture to class. Instructor helps them choose fabrics to reflect the flowers in their picture and interpret their own garden palette and then do a collage quilt.
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Using the Herb Garden at Blakesley Hall

For Students 4th - 8th
In this Blakesley Hall herb garden worksheet, students explore the herb garden at Blakesley Hall. This worksheet gives suggestion for activities while on this field trip.
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Creating a Japanese Garden Lantern in Crea-Stone

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students create a Japanese Garden Lantern. In this step-by-step ceramics activity, students follow simple how-to directions to mold and create a Japanese Garden Lantern out of Crea-Stone.
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The Young Virginia Gardener: Container Gardening-The Old English Tea Garden

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this gardening worksheet, learners read about the custom of tea drinking and how to brew tea using herbs grown in a container garden. Students answer 2 related questions.
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Garden of Letters

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students learn a game of tag that is delivered in the format of a garden with a queen bee that is the tagger. They work on the skills of locomotor movements, spatial awareness, and letter recognition. The lesson includes a variation to...
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The Young Virginia Gardener: Container Gardening: Starting and Transplanting Seeds

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this gardening activity, students read a short passage about starting and transplanting seeds, then check names of plants they will put in their garden, noting whether they have started it from seed or purchased it from a store.
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Rabbit Hill Garden Map Checklist

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this garden planning worksheet, students draw a garden plot and label it in a legend. Students complete the checklist of necessary items for their garden map.
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The Young Virginia Gardener: Garden Pests and Problems-Insects

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this garden pests and problems worksheet, learners read about insects and research what insects use their antenna for, comparing 2 or 3 different types. 
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The Young Virginia Gardener: Garden Pests and Problems-Weed Display

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this gardening worksheet, students read a short passage about creating a weed display, then make a list of the 10 weeds they will you and tell where they found their information.
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Introduce Vocabulary: The Surprise Garden

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore English by reading children stories in class. In this tier two vocabulary lesson, students read the book The Surprise Garden and identify the settings, plot and characters. Students define a list of vocabulary words from...
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Rabbit Hill Gardening Planning Sheet

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this garden planning worksheet, learners complete a chart in which students choose 3 plants that can be food for one of 5 specified animals. Learners determine the space needed between the plant rows, the number of rows needed and...
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The Young Virginia Gardener: Create a Plant

For Students 2nd - 4th
In 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:Growing Seeds Indoors

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this gardening instructional activity, students read about growing seeds indoors, then complete 4 short answer questions based on the passage.
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Pollination Power

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study and examine the structure of a flower.  In this pollination lesson, 2nd graders observe pollinators in the garden and dissect a flower. Students then plant strawberry plants in the garden and observe the process of...
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Aboriginal Plant Use in South-Eastern Australia

For Students 9th - 12th
The Aboriginal people of Australia survived for over 40,000 years by using the plants that grow in the bush for food, medicine, tools, and utensils. Introduce young botanists to the wonders of the Outback with a 25-page packet that...
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Food Chain

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the concept of food chains. In this food chain lesson, 4th graders discuss what different animals eat and how they are all connected. Students explore a garden and the environment around them to find examples of a...
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Give Me Five!

For Teachers K
Students become familiar with their five senses and how their experiences would change without them.  In this observations instructional activity, students observe using their five senses in a garden.  Students illustrate what they've...
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Garden Detective Sensory Tour

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
To prepare for a sensory walk outside, the whole class engages in a discussion of the five senses, kids close their eyes, and share what they sense. Groups then follow a guide, tour an area, and share what they experience through their...
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Floating Garden Challenge

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Climate change is affecting communities living in riverside areas by flooding land where crops used to grow. Using an array of instructional materials provided in this resource, you will have the opportunity to task your critical...
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Guardians of Eden

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students understand the definition of a guardian and the role of the guardian in caring for something. In this Garden of Eden instructional activity, students examine how a guardian takes care of a garden. Students complete worksheets on...
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Meet the Corals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the types of coral. In this oceanography lesson, students access the Fisheye View Cam Website and create their own coral garden by using various art supplies.

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