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Growing fruit: Searching for seeds in fruit
In this fruit learning exercise, students follow directions on how to get a seed from fruit, and grow it to become another fruit. Students follow 2 sets of directions.
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Create a Garden Goddess
Students construct a Garden Goddess. In this gardening lesson plan, students recall why farmers used scarecrows and discover the history of a Garden Goddess. Students construct their own Garden Goddess from old clothes, paint, and...
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
In this how does your garden grow worksheet, students read about indoor gardening, how to grow herbs, fruits or vegetables, then look at 5 pictures and write the correct name for that biome from the names given.
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Container Gardening: Vegetable Support
In this container gardening: vegetable support worksheet, students list vining and bush varieties of 6 vegetables, read about ways of supporting plants and list other things plants can grow on.
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Nutrients for Plants and People: Food Pyramid Garden
In this garden worksheet, students plant different types of food from the food pyramid into a garden and write a journal about all of the food. Students plant 4 levels of food from the food pyramid.
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What a Garden Can Teach
Students read about land and gardening and create found poems from the text. They use the poems to design interpretation quilts of communal text.
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Six Plant Parts
Students create a harvest burrito out of fruit, flowers, roots, stems, and more. In this plants lesson plan, students go out into the garden and identify the 6 plant parts.
August House
The Ogre Bully
English language arts, math, science, dramatic arts, and cooking; this lesson plan has it all! In this multidisciplinary resource, your scholars will take part in a read aloud of The Ogre Bully by A.B. Hoffmire and have a grand...
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Where Food Grows
Students identify how vegetable plants grow. In this plant lesson, students brainstorm different fruits and vegetables and read the book Growing Vegetable Soup. Students visit a garden and observe how vegetables grow.
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The Color Way
Young scholars study the importance of eating a colorful diet of fruits and vegetables. In this nutritional diet lesson, students complete multiple activities to learn about the nutritional value of colorful fruits and vegetables.
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Food, Food, And More Food From Plants!
Learners examine the edible parts of a plant and explore their function. They define what makes a fruit classified as a fruit. They create a sketch or map or photo of a 1930s farm and justify their plant selections.
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Farming Number 6
In this environment worksheet, students identify and explain the importance of water and farming. They identify the differences between food items and whether they are a fruit, vegetable, or animal. Students also respond to 5 yes/no...
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Plant Parts We Eat
I bet the kids in your class will love to eat their vegetables after an engaging lesson about edible plants. They read information about vegetables and edible plants, sort vocabulary words, identify plant parts, measure and graph the...
Choose My Plate
MyPlate Word Blanks
Create a silly cooking themed story using nouns, adjectives, verbs, and more! Pupils fill in the blanks using their knowledge of different types of fruit, vegetables, grains, protein, and dairy, then read the story aloud to hear a whacky...
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Measure the Gardens
Understanding arrays is very similar to understanding the relationship between multiplication and area. Give your third graders an opportunity to practice identifying area models that relate repeated addition and multiplication. They...
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I Have A Little Garden
In this poetry worksheet, students read the poem "I Have A Little Garden," color the picture, underline the rhyming words in the poem and then write the rhyming words on pages two through three.
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F.B.I.
Learners create a worm bin full of fruit and vegetable scraps wit paper and observe what happens over time. For this decomposers lesson plan, students observe that the fruit and vegetable scraps become new soil.
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Growing a Garden
Students research aspects of gardening including nutrition, costs, and soil preparation. They then write a report detailing the planning of the garden and compare costs to buying the items.
Agriculture in the Classroom
The Garden Chef
Introduce young chefs to nutritious eating with a cookbook that is divided into sections focusing on one of the five food groups. It includes lessons, activities, and recipes. How wholesome!
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Vegetable Twister
Learners review vegetables and their nutrient values and production. In this vegetable production worksheet, students read information about the nutrients in vegetables and how they are grown. Learners participate in a game of Twister to...
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Sequencing from Seeds to Harvest
Explore the farm to table experience in a fast-paced lesson on gardening. The activity uses image sequencing to help young scholars understand the process of growing food from seed to harvest. Academics also participate in group...
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4th Grade Food Safety Lesson
From a high-speed hand-washing lesson to identifying important nutrients in fruits and veggies, this resource has several activity ideas and worksheets for teaching food safety to your learners.
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Seeds of Life
Students match real seeds with the corresponding names of fruits and vegetables. They answer discussion questions, and glue the seeds on the correct squares of a chart.
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Garbage in the Garden
Students create their own compost. In this soil lesson, students fill a bag with waste and soil, in order to create a mini compost bin. Students observe the baggies over a 6 week period, they record their findings and collect data on...