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Looking for ways to incorporate the garden into your curriculum? The following Classroom Projects provide you with detailed instructions for engaging, garden-related activities along with ideas for hands-on lessons.
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Figurative Speech: Analogies, Similes, and Metaphors Literacy standards addressed: use of personal expression, use of figurative speech; creation of stories. Analogies, metaphors and similes are staple ingredients of poetry. The plants, gardens, and the...
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Decomposition is a big word for some students. Help them break it down (pardon the pun), and they'll find that de- (reverse) + compose- (put together) means "to take something apart." All living things -- an oak leaf, a moth's wing, a carrot top -- are...
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Sparking Curiosity about Decomposition If this is your student gardeners' first experience with decomposition concepts, here are some suggestions for stimulating curiosity and inquiry. Fill a plastic bag with some "once living" materials (e.g., cut...
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Websites We Like Compost Fun for Kids -- Students from Mansfield Middle School, where they operate a successful school-wide composting project, provide composting facts, a quiz, and puzzles for their peers. Mulch Experiment -- A lesson plan for testing...
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What insights can a jar full of mud and water give us about life on planet Earth? Can an ecosystem within a jar teach us about the Earth's biosphere? Consider inviting your students to set up windowsill or GrowLab investigations to explore these...
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Puzzling Out Tree Growth Challenge your students to figure out just where tree growth takes place. (Trees add length from the tips of twigs and rootlets, and width when the cambium adds new xylem and phloem cells.) They might mark different spots on...
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The following time-honored activities can provide springboards for engaging students in exploring soils and how they "act." If It Feels Good Invite students to examine the texture of moist soils as scientists do. Set up stations with soil samples with...
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Enough already about reading books about plants. If you're hoping to help plants thrive in a classroom garden, consider the importance of "reading your plants." A leggy bean or yellowed tomato plant might just tell you a thing or two about your gardening...
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After reading the article, Garden Tales, consider some of these other opportunities for cultivating literacy within a plant and garden context. inspire a bulb-growing project by reading the beautiful picture book A Flower Grows, by Ken Robbins,...
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