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Designed to provide you with the resources needed to successfully implement plant-based lessons into your classroom, the following articles provide background information for a wide variety of garden-related topics.

Which End is Up?
Its outside skin looks dead and its inside skin looks alive. It looks like an onion. I wonder if you can plant it. How come it has so many layers? These candid observations and "
Growing Confidence
"A couple of years ago, a student's grandmother who's committed to reaching kids through gardening offered to help our students develop an application for the National Gardening
Garden Training for Future Astronauts
After donning their space suits, a 5th-grade "astronaut commander" leads a crew of three K-2 "astronaut trainees" into a shuttle simulator, blasts into space, docks with the space
Greenhouse Zinnia Race
"If we want students to become better scientists, problem-solvers, and thinkers, we have to give them opportunities to design investigations to answer intriguing questions,"
But What Are They Learning?
By Anne Grall Reichel As educators, we experience the excitement that hands-on approaches generate and enthusiastically watch students become involved with science as they create
Aromatic Entrepreneurs
When Christine Staskiewicz invited a local farmer and hydroponic grower to talk to her fourth grade students in Westport, Massachusetts, about growing herbs in their GrowLab, she
Concept Maps
Your students may have memorized the parts of a flower, but do they conceptually understand the role of flowers in relation to plant life cycles, pollinators, and agriculture? One
Garden Business Partnerships Bloom
"There are so few young people interested in going into horticulture today," said Forest Lake Greenhouses owner Lisa King. "Our industry needs good employees...and the future of
The Eyes Have It
Throughout history, they've been alternately maligned as food fit only for animals and revered as "apples of life." They're down and dirty and terrible unassuming, yet these often
Digging Deeper with Potatoes
The article, The Eyes Have It, explores these unassuming, yet historically and nutritionally important tubers. Here are some additional ideas for curious minds. In your outdoor
Plants and Soil: The Nutrition Connection
Students sometimes believe that plants get their "food" from the soil. Scientists, meanwhile, understand that plants manufacture their own food -- simple sugars -- using energy
Ethnobotany: The People-Plant Connection
"As part of our plant studies, I invited my fourth and fifth graders to brainstorm all of the items they could that contained corn," reports Tucson, AZ, teacher Michelle Tuchek. "
Illuminating Inquiry
So, is all light created equal? Recently, a fluorescent light manufacturer, eager to convince classroom gardeners of the value of their special Instant Sun fluorescent lights,
Thematic Gardens
School gardens can take a variety of shapes and sizes. These barrels are placed outside each classroom and can easily complement lessons.An ordinary mixed vegetable, flower, and
Singing Sunflower Praises
Sunflowers provide school gardeners a visual and edible treat!We've heard from a number of teachers who have reported that growing sunflowers, both indoors and out, has inspired

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