School Gardening Guide
Edible Schoolyard
Botany Games and Resources for Kids
Bringing the Natural World To Students With a Pollinator GardenA garden for bees and butterflies helps local endangered species while providing opportunities for standards-based science lessons.
Symbiotic Schoolyard the new science unit you’ll want in your middle schoolers’ classrooms.
Tools to Create Social Change Through Youth Farming and Gardening
Nico and Nor Wonder Farm (IOS App) children plant digital seeds and help them grow! In this app, children create a sequence of conditions for the seeds and observe how tomato, cabbage, bean, and carrot plants transform as time passes. Children also mix up a colorful salad using a healthy variety of garden vegetables. Part simulation and part game, Wonder Farm helps children explore how factors like the weather and hungry animals can affect plants’ growth.
Common Core in the Garden
Consumer Notice "Information about harmful products, environmental hazards, and preventing personal injuries. As you may know, most pesticides can pose a risk to humans and animals. For this reason, we have published a guide with organic, homemade, and agricultural alternatives."
Adding School Gardens to School Wellness Policies
Garden Resource Websites.docx
Kids in the Garden With its garden-themed Reading Adventure Pack, kids can learn how to create a kitchen herb garden, nurture seedlings, and map out a fantasy garden. Activities are paired with recommended fiction and nonfiction books. Find more themed books, hands-on and outdoor activities, apps and more in Start with a Book’s Our Green World section.
School garden provides STEM lessons A West Virginia middle school has incorporated a garden into its science, technology, engineering and math program. Students take care of the plants and hold fundraisers with their crops,
Monarch Teacher Network
From the Ground Up science soil program for middle school
Description of Beds.pdf
Ecoliteracygetting-started-2009.pdf
The Science of Gardening and Ecosystems preK-3 activities Relevant PA & DE State Standards
EffectiveOutdoorManagementTipsforTeachers.pdf
foodsafety.pdf
Gardening Websites.doc
GEFgardeningapprovalchecklist.pdf
Herb Garden Guide.pdf
Sheet Composting with Small Children.pdf
Rain Garden Manual from The Native Plant Society of New Jersey.pdf
Recipes
School Garden Checklist.doc
Starting a School Garden
Video Clips.docx
Edible Schoolyard
Botany Games and Resources for Kids
Bringing the Natural World To Students With a Pollinator GardenA garden for bees and butterflies helps local endangered species while providing opportunities for standards-based science lessons.
Symbiotic Schoolyard the new science unit you’ll want in your middle schoolers’ classrooms.
Tools to Create Social Change Through Youth Farming and Gardening
Nico and Nor Wonder Farm (IOS App) children plant digital seeds and help them grow! In this app, children create a sequence of conditions for the seeds and observe how tomato, cabbage, bean, and carrot plants transform as time passes. Children also mix up a colorful salad using a healthy variety of garden vegetables. Part simulation and part game, Wonder Farm helps children explore how factors like the weather and hungry animals can affect plants’ growth.
Common Core in the Garden
Consumer Notice "Information about harmful products, environmental hazards, and preventing personal injuries. As you may know, most pesticides can pose a risk to humans and animals. For this reason, we have published a guide with organic, homemade, and agricultural alternatives."
Adding School Gardens to School Wellness Policies
Garden Resource Websites.docx
Kids in the Garden With its garden-themed Reading Adventure Pack, kids can learn how to create a kitchen herb garden, nurture seedlings, and map out a fantasy garden. Activities are paired with recommended fiction and nonfiction books. Find more themed books, hands-on and outdoor activities, apps and more in Start with a Book’s Our Green World section.
School garden provides STEM lessons A West Virginia middle school has incorporated a garden into its science, technology, engineering and math program. Students take care of the plants and hold fundraisers with their crops,
Monarch Teacher Network
From the Ground Up science soil program for middle school
Description of Beds.pdf
Ecoliteracygetting-started-2009.pdf
The Science of Gardening and Ecosystems preK-3 activities Relevant PA & DE State Standards
EffectiveOutdoorManagementTipsforTeachers.pdf
foodsafety.pdf
Gardening Websites.doc
GEFgardeningapprovalchecklist.pdf
Herb Garden Guide.pdf
Sheet Composting with Small Children.pdf
- Activity: Garden Math
- Activity: Sid the Science Kid: Growing Plants
- Video: Sid the Science Kid: "Growing Plants"
- Game: Nature Cat: Seed Soaring
- Game: Nature Cat: Park Builder
- Game: Arthur: Groovy Garden
- Game: Curious George: Flower Garden
Rain Garden Manual from The Native Plant Society of New Jersey.pdf
Recipes
School Garden Checklist.doc
Starting a School Garden
Video Clips.docx