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Container Gardening: Vegetable Support

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this container gardening:  vegetable support worksheet, students list vining and bush varieties of 6 vegetables, read about ways of supporting plants and list other things plants can grow on.
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Dyed Flower Garden

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars create a dyed flower garden. For this art lesson, students read the book Tiny Seed and cut flowers out of tissue paper to create a paper flower garden.
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Container Gardening: A Rainbow Garden

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this container gardening a rainbow garden worksheet, students look in a catalog or garden center to find flowers in every color of the rainbow, then list the names of the plants.
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How Does Your Garden Grow?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify what plants need to grow. In this plant biology instructional activity, students analyze the differences between an artificial plant and a live plant. Students plant seeds and discuss what plants need to grow. Students...
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Natural Gardening

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students study the effect of pesticides on plants and insects. For this gardening lesson, students discuss the importance of insects. They define pesticides, evaluate their effectiveness and the problems they might cause. Students...
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Windowsill Gardening: Food From Sunlight

For Students 4th - 5th
In this windowsill gardening food from sunlight learning exercise, students research photosynthesis, write about it, observe and record sunlight at home as it relates to the needs of a plant.
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Making a Hanging Container Garden

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this making a hanging container garden worksheet, students read and follow directions for making a hanging container for plants.
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Growing Native Plants From Seed

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders plant seeds of native plants. They study the concepts of native plants, where they grow, how they grow, and why they are so special. They assess long term care monitoring the seedlings as they grow and write the name...
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Ratios in the Garden

For Students 4th - 6th
In this ratios worksheet, students answer questions about the ratios of the area of each section of a garden and then complete their own garden in a grid. Students answer 5 questions.
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Carrot Heads Garden

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a carrot garden. In this gardening lesson, students discuss the conditions needed in order to grown plants while creating their own garden. They read the story The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss. 
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Exploring Texture In the Garden

For Teachers K
Students explore the garden environment. In this garden environment lesson, students investigate the needs and parts of a plant. Students discover the differences between fruits and vegetables while creating their own garden.
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How Does Your Garden Grow?

For Teachers K - 4th
Students discover gardening by documenting plants grown on school grounds.  In this botany lesson, students utilize digital cameras to capture images of plants on photo hikes which are turned into a slide show.  Students plant a garden...
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Ph-ocusing on Photosynthesis In and Out of the Garden

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to the concept of photosynthesis. As a class, they brainstorm a list of what they already know about plants and individually grow a plant on their own in the classroom. They record their observations daily and...
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Horticulture and Gardening

For Students 3rd - 6th
This answer sheet is made to be a companion to a Horticulture and Gardening worksheet. This could be used as a guide for activities in the classroom.
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Haiku: Observation and Writing in the Japanese Garden

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Young scholars observe a Botanical Gardens. Upon returning to the classroom, students write their own Haiku based on their observations.
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Exploring the Elements of a Japanese Garden Through the Book Arts

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students create book arts based on a visit to the Botanical Garden. They choose their own images to put into their book and answer discussion questions.
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Garden Starters

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students grow their own gardens. In this planting lesson, students use egg cartons to start their own gardens by planting and caring for seeds. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson to complement the theme.
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Birdseed Garden

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students create their own garden. In this plant growth lesson, students sprinkle a damp sponge with birdseeds. Students place the sponge in the sun and watch the seeds sprout.
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Fun With Plants: Can You Find?

For Students 2nd - 6th
For this plants worksheet, students find plants with specific plant parts and press and dry them to the sheet. Students find 14 different plant parts.
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Glove Gardens

For Teachers K - 5th
Students investigate how seeds sprout. In this scientific inquiry instructional activity, students make predictions on which seeds will grow the fastest and observe the seeds over a period of time. Observations are recorded into a...
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Sequence Writing: Life Cycles - Plant Life

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars investigate the stages of plant life. Students create a K-W-L chart. They describe six main stages of the plant life cycles. Using stickers, young scholars create a life cycle flow map.
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How Do Plants Grow?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate plant growth. In this plant growth lesson, students investigate what would happen to plants if they did not have water and sunlight. Students conduct experiments to determine what plants need. Students create a...
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Preserving Buds and Blooms

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Learners learn how to preserve flower buds and blooms. In this gardening lesson, students explore the methods of air drying, using drying agents, and pressing plants to preserve them.
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Growing Poems

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students write garden inspired poetry. For this poetry lesson plan, students go out into the garden and write poems about how they feel, what they see, and what is going on in the garden.

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