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Handout
Nature Conservancy

Nature Works Everywhere: Rain Garden Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
Find some tips on how to plant a rain garden to help filter and absorb rain.
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Website
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National Gardening Association: Kids Gardening

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This complete resource for parents, teachers, and students on gardening provides information about creating and maintaining a school garden. List your garden in the registry of school gardens. Includes information about garden projects...
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Website
Other

Garden Club of America: Good Gardening Practices to Protect Your Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
An information sheet on how to protect the environment while growing a garden. Can be downloaded as a PDF document.
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Interactive
US Department of Agriculture

United States Department of Agriculture: Usda Plant Hardiness Zone Map

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map shows which plants are most likely to thrive at a specified location. Searchable by zip code, state , or temperature.
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Unit Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: My First Garden

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learning about gardens, flowers, vegetables and the principles of horticulture can be a really fun experience. Discover about the beauty of gardens, and the care involved in planning, nurturing and enjoying the benefits of gardening in a...
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Unit Plan
Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Biology of Plants: Pollination

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn the parts of a flower and how a plant gets pollinated. Includes video, songs, diagrams, and lesson plans.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Count on It!: Blossom and Snappy Go Gardening

For Students K - 1st Standards
Blossom and Snappy decide to plant a garden. They go to Calloway Gardens to learn about different types of plants and flowers, as well as butterflies and hummingbirds.
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Article
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Alabama Cooperative Extension System: Container Gardening

For Students 9th - 10th
Everything you would need to know about container gardening is at this site. The benefits of container gardening, how to choose a container, how to select a soil mixture, how to select plants, planting, fertilizing, watering, and other...
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Handout
Nature Conservancy

Nature Works Everywhere: Pollinator Garden Tip Sheet

For Students 9th - 10th
Certain creatures help pollinate plants. This guide will help gardeners plant good pollinator plants.
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Unit Plan
Other

University of Idaho Extension: Idaho Landscapes & Gardens: Garden Basics

For Students 9th - 10th
A gardening resource which addresses basic gardening tips, and also contains information on composting, preparing soil, irrigating, and using pesticides and fertilizers.
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PBS

The War: Plant a Victory Garden

For Students 9th - 10th
At the online companion site of the PBS documentary series "THE WAR," view a poster from WWII that calls on citizens to help lessen the demand for store-bought food by planting a garden.
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: A Garden in Lawndale [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"A Garden in Lawndale" is a one page, non-fiction, reading passage about an eighth grade class who planted a garden in a vacant lot by their school and maintained it to improve their neighborhood. It is followed by constructed-response...
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Activity
Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago: Activities: Grow a Garden in a Glove

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Check out this step-by-step experiment and, before you know it, you'll be growing a garden in a glove.
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Article
Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Container Gardens

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to maximize the wildlife in a small space by planting a container garden.
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Handout
Texas A&M University

Tamu: Aggie Horticulture: School Gardens

For Students 3rd - 5th
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...
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Primary
Texas A&M University

Easy Gardening. . . Beets [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Let's you know all about this cool weather crop. Soil Preparation, fertilizing, planting, varieties, insect concerns, harvesting and more. Requires Adobe Reader.
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Handout
Other

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden: What Are Adaptations [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This pdf presents a thorough examination of plant adaptations with emphasis on different types of functional and reproductive adaptations.
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Website
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Tulip Test Gardens

For Students 9th - 10th
A step-by-step guide to planting, growing and investigating with a garden full of tulips.
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Website
Other

Denver Botanic Gardens

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents information on the Denver Botanic Gardens in Colorado. There are five different gardens within the larger structure, they are: the plant collections, the chatfield arboretum, the japanese garden, the tropical botanica,...
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Website
Other

Wild About Gardening: Encyclopedia

For Students 9th - 10th
Get information on 575 different plant species using the WILD About Gardening Encyclopedia. Information is provided and can be searched under the following categories: Scientific Name,Common Name, Plant Type, Native Province, Zone,...
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Lesson Plan
Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Learning From Leaves: Adaptation [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
A scavenger hunt where learners find and study examples of leaf adaptations for different environments. This activity is designed to be used on a visit to botanical gardens or greenhouse but could be adapted and used with specimens in...
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Website
Other

Ny Botanical Garden: Fungal and Plant Diversity

For Students 9th - 10th
Findings of an expedition by the New York Botanical Garden in French Guiana to investigate vegetation.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Guide to Rain Garden Construction

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Student groups create personal rain gardens planted with native species to provide a green infrastructure and low-impact development technology solution for areas with poor drainage that often flood during storm events.
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PBS

Pbs Nova: First Flower: China, Mother of Gardens

For Students 9th - 10th
The tutorial explores the native Chinese flowering plant species. Some topics include rock's peony, dove tree, and fortune's rhododendron. The activity consists of a printable version and ian nteractive version.

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