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What Do You Do With A Butterfly Garden?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders build a butterfly garden and perform caretaker duties. They volunteer to perform authentic tasks related to their personal interests. Students research butterfly gardens to determine what plants are necessary for the...
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Decimals in the Garden

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this math activity, students are given pictures of garden tools and prices (in pounds). They select the items they would like to purchase for their garden and calculate the cost to buy these items. Students may use the internet to...
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How Does Your Garden Grow?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders view an animated picture book at a Web site. The picture book illustrates each step in planting and growing a garden. They design how-to books showing the process. They will draw a picture and write a caption for each step.
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Liberation of the Garden Gnomes

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students read a lighthearted story about the controversial Garden Gnome Liberation Front. They debate the public's right to own garden gnomes. Personal - to lighten up the classroom a bit with a somewhat
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Cricket Wars

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore living and nonliving things in a garden environment. In this garden environment instructional activity, 3rd graders study the effects of crickets in a garden. Students explore the interaction between living and...
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Charting Attendance Rate of Busch Gardens

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders, in groups, are given different parts of the whole project. They use information from Busch Gardens to explore line graphs, averages, and other math vocabulary.
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Drawing Snails

For Students K - 1st
In this garden coloring instructional activity, students color a garden scene with mushrooms and sunflowers with three snails. Students are instructed to draw more snails.
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The Class Garden Essay

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use a class garden as inspiration for a specific writing assignment. They conduct research into different types of flowers in photo images taken with a digital camera. Students write a creative essay and draw a picture to...
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Nature Word Search

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this word search worksheet, students locate 18 vocabulary words and mark them in the puzzle. All words pertain to the garden. There is a word bank.
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Nature Word Search: More Difficult

For Students 4th - 6th
In this nature word search learning exercise, students locate 24 words in a puzzle. All words pertain to nature and the garden. There is a word bank.
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Bank On It!

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this science worksheet, students fill in the blanks to complete a story about turning an empty field into a garden. They select words from a word bank of ten words to create the story.
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Chalk Box Kid Lesson 7- Gregory's Garden

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts activity, students learn new vocabulary from the book Chalk Box Kid. Students learn the words in this list of 45 words from the chapter called "Gregory's Garden." There are no questions on the page; this is a list...
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Surprise Island Chapter 3-"The Garden"

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this literature and comprehension question worksheet, students write complete sentence answers to 4 questions about Chapter 3,"The Garden," from the book Surprise Island.
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Grow Your Own Grub

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students study plant needs and growth by completing a gardening activity. In this plant study instructional activity, students watch a video and discuss plant growth needs. Students plant seeds in containers and water the plants....
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Dna in the Garden - Where It All Began

For Students 5th - 6th
In this DNA instructional activity, learners read about Gregor Mendel and his experiments with plants and DNA. Students complete a crossword puzzle using 10 vocabulary words from the selection.
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A Garden on the Moon

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners identify criteria and constraints related to the design and development of a plant growth chamber.  In this engineering lesson students apply the engineering design process to solve a problem. 
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Writing: Planning Your Writing Worksheet 2--Example 1

For Students 4th - 6th
For this spider diagram example worksheet, students look over and analyze a sample spider diagram expanding on the writing prompt of gardening.
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A Gathered Garden

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to how to create a garden made out of fabric. Using different types of fabrics, they make various types of flowers to be used on their quilts and practice using different methods to attach them. They share their...
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Growing a Winter Garden

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to a planting story as read by their teacher. Using the text, they summarize the events and complete a KWL chart. They point to the vegetable after it was planted in the garden in the story. They practice using new...
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Deep Gardens

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students compare and contrast deep-sea coral reefs with shallow-water coral reefs. In this underwater ecology lesson, students describe three types of coral and explain why scientists are concerned about the future of deep-sea coral.
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Phil's Garden of Good

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars read "The Rainbow Fish" and discuss how the fish benefited by giving others. In this sharing lesson, students prepare plants and letters for senior citizens. Young scholars present their letters and plants at a visit to a...
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Deep Gardens

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate the differences and similarities between shallow-water and deep-sea coral reefs.  In this coral reef lesson, students research and compare the characteristics of reefs.  Students describe various lifeforms in coral...
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Sachets and Nosgays

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
An impressive lesson plan on the many uses of gardens during the Colonial and Federal periods of history is here for you. In it, learners explore the uses of flowers and herbs grown in gardens at that time; from deodorants, to insect...
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Ladybug Release

For Teachers K Standards
As part of a study of garden friends and foes, primary graders release and observe ladybugs in the school garden.

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