Gardening Resources

Use these worksheets, references, and activities to teach children about soil, fruits, vegetables, and gardening. Enrich your curriculum with resources about flora, review garden tools, and enhance lessons with clip art images. Science activities about plant growth and development are a great way to introduce younger children to biology.

Gardening References Gardening with Kids Tips for gardening with children. Lesson Plans & Science Activities Class Garden Create a class garden with this lesson plan. Your students will observe the growth of the plants after the garden has been made. Family Activities: Plant a Garden Send home a family activity letter that will help your students practice counting by planting a window garden. How Does Your Garden Grow? By making their own miniature garden, students can observe first hand how plants grow. What Is a Habitat? Students cut out plants and animals, and add them to a model garden habitat. Which Soil Is Best for Plants? Students are asked to identify which of two soil samples would be best for planting a garden. Assesses their understanding of weathering, soil formation, soil composition, and soil fertility. Scoring rubric and background notes included. Literature & Math: Stories about Flowers Enrich your curriculum with this printable lesson for Counting in the Garden by Kim Parker and The Reason for a Flower by Ruth Heller. Children will practice counting and learn about plants through literature-based activities for mathematics and science. Rachel Carson: The Coming of a Silent Spring Enhance reading comprehension with a lesson that is centered around a biography about environmentalist Rachel Carson. Classifying Seeds During this primary science lesson, students will learn classification by sorting seeds into categories based on appearance. Gardening Area Students must plot vegetables in a garden according to space required. Growing Sprouts Show students the process of plant life by growing sprouts right in your classroom. Vegetables Grown Beneath Soil This printable shows children how to grow potatoes in their backyard. Diets Around the Globe Students use a Web resource to explore the impact of the Columbian Exchange on diets in all parts of the world. Children's Books The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter Enhance reading abilities with an activity that enriches and expands children's language and emergent literacy skills. The Secret Garden Use this guide on The Secret Garden to stimulate discussions focused on themes, symbols, recurrent motifs, and Frances Hodgson Burnett's style. The Garden of Abdul Gasazi Teacher's Guide Discover the magic of Chris Van Allsburg's first children's book, The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. This printable teacher's guide includes a summary of the book, teaching ideas for language arts, discussion questions, and lesson planning resources for reading the book aloud with your class.

Gardening Worksheets Summer Herbs to Identify In this printable activity, children will learn about popular summer herbs found in gardens and used in cooking. Kim's Garden Employ a printable reading activity that helps build skills in predicting outcomes. Insects in the Garden Kids will learn about insects that are harmful and insects that are helpful to plants and vegetables in this science printable. Reading Warm-Up 40 for Gr. 3 & 4: American History Build students' reading skills and knowledge of American history with a printable reading passage about Colonial gardens and related comprehension questions. Colorful Garden Employ a reading activity that helps build skills in visual discrimination. In a Garden Students use this graphic organizer to list what animals and plants are found in a garden. This printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing. Cool-Weather and Warm-Weather Crops This printable about spring vegetables has children list the crops grown in cool weather and warm weather. What Are Seeds and Fruits? Enrich your study of plant reproduction with a printable about seeds and fruits. Students will complete statements about seeds and fruits, review the process of pollination, and label the reproductive parts of a plant. Activity: Seed Dispersal Read the passage in this printable to learn about the history of the tomato plant. Then, have students refer to the passage to answer comprehension questions. Students will also identify the characteristics that help plant seeds disperse, and predict their method of dispersal. What Are the Parts of a Seed? This science printable about plants challenges students to identify the parts of a seed and the stages of germination. Garden Tool Shapes Try a math activity that focuses on matching shapes. How Does Your Garden Grow? Antonyms Use this vocabulary activity to help build skills in understanding antonyms. Clip Art Images Garden Gnome Peas Vegetables Spade Watering Can More Educational Clip Art Images from DK Related Resources Plants (Botany) – Teacher Resources Earth Day Teacher Resources