The Teacher Tool Box is a place where teachers can find new ideas for lessons they can use in their gardens.
Lessons are arranged by subject: math, social studies, science, language arts, and health.
The category called Basic Gardening Lessons includes lessons in a variety of subjects that teach the basics of gardening and plants.
Click on the pictures below to view the lessons.
Lessons are arranged by subject: math, social studies, science, language arts, and health.
The category called Basic Gardening Lessons includes lessons in a variety of subjects that teach the basics of gardening and plants.
Click on the pictures below to view the lessons.
Basic Gardening Lessons
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Food Doesn't Grow
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Featured Lesson for September
MY LIFE AS A VEGETABLE
When you go back to the garden this fall, make learning how a plant grows into each of its six parts creative and fun! Ask your students to imagine that they are their favorite vegetable. Have them discuss and describe how they grow, starting as a seed until they are ready to be harvested for someone’s tasty treat! Then ask them to present their vegetative life as a poster or story.
Younger students can draw their vegetable and add how it grows into each part of the plant: from seed to roots, stem, leaves, flowers, fruit, and seeds again Older students can explain the life cycle, and research other details, such as the plant's origin or obstacles to their vegetable's life such as adverse weather, insect invasions, or hungry animals.
Teach the parts of a plant with the fabulously fun song that acts out each of the six plant parts in the order that they grow. Check out the video above on this page to learn to sing it. It's to the tune of the Addams Family theme song, so start snapping your fingers!
Read books about how seeds grow into plants. Then ask students to create a portrait of themselves as their vegetable of choice!
Learning Through Gardening offers two different versions of this lesson, one for younger and one for older students.
Download the K-2 complete lesson.
Download the 3-5 complete lesson.
Younger students can draw their vegetable and add how it grows into each part of the plant: from seed to roots, stem, leaves, flowers, fruit, and seeds again Older students can explain the life cycle, and research other details, such as the plant's origin or obstacles to their vegetable's life such as adverse weather, insect invasions, or hungry animals.
Teach the parts of a plant with the fabulously fun song that acts out each of the six plant parts in the order that they grow. Check out the video above on this page to learn to sing it. It's to the tune of the Addams Family theme song, so start snapping your fingers!
Read books about how seeds grow into plants. Then ask students to create a portrait of themselves as their vegetable of choice!
Learning Through Gardening offers two different versions of this lesson, one for younger and one for older students.
Download the K-2 complete lesson.
Download the 3-5 complete lesson.
