Plants: Gardening
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| Plants: Gardening |
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Description:
| These sites offer gardening tips and planting activities for kids. Includes hands-on experiments, lesson plans, quizzes, and photographs of plants and flowers. There are links to two eThemes Resources on plants. |
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Grade Level:
| 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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Resource Links:
| Dr. Bob's Gardening Tips
Get gardening tips, facts, and pictures from Dr. Bob Black from the University of Florida Department of Environmental Horticulture.
My First Garden
Find out everything you need to know about growing your first garden. Learn about different gardening tools, how to read a seed packet, and when to start planting. The teacher's guide includes activity ideas. Click the "En Espanol" button to have the text translated into Spanish.
Kid's World Plant Nutrition
This site has facts about plant nutrition and gardening tips plus games and an online quiz.
Penn State Pointers: Agricultural Information Services
This site offers numerous pointers for planting, gardening, and growing indoor and outdoor plants. If you scroll to the bottom of the page, you can click to download colorful PDF files with the tips.
Gardening Ideas for Kids
This site has suggested gardening activities and information on starting a school garden.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Click on Current Photos to view photographs of the currently blooming plants and flowers at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Gardening Word Scramble
Play this online gardening word scramble. Scroll down for more garden games. NOTE: The site includes pop-up and banner ads.
Kids Gardening
This site includes many gardening links such as classroom gardening activities and stories, a parents primer, school greenhouse guide, and hydroponics, and more.
USDA Plants Database
This extensive database lets you search for plants by common name or scientific name. This is the Plant National Database by the United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources, Conservation Services.
ABCteach: Dana's Flower Garden
This is a reading comprehension activity for younger kids. Read about Dana's garden and answer questions on the second page of this three-page PDF file.
ABCteach: Garden Maze
Print out the page, color flowers, and find the way out this garden maze.
Children's Garden Network
This site contains tools and resources for parents and educators to establish or expand a school garden program. Includes links to activities and other learning resources.
National Geographic: Designing a Native Plants Garden
Students can compare native plants in different parts of the United States by exploring Web sites to learn about native vegetation in their own region, and then design gardens that use those local plants with this lesson plan activity.
eThemes Resource: Plants: Life Cycles
These sites focus on pollination, germination, and photosynthesis in plants. There are hands-on experiments that demonstrate the characteristics of plants as well as online activities. eThemes Resources on plant species, carnivorous plants, and trees are included as well as an eMINTS WebQuest on plants.
eThemes Resource: Plants: Species and Parts
These sites have information on different species of plants as well as their parts and functions. Includes eThemes resources on carnivorous plants, plant and animal cells, and the life cycles of plants.
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Education Standards:
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AL Standards:
4.1, 4.2, 5, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.7, 10
AR Standards:
LS.2.1.4.a, LS.2.1.4.b, LS.2.1.4.c, LS.2.1.4.d, LS.2.2.3.a, LS.2.2.3.b, LS.2.2.3.c, LS.2.2.3.d, LS.2.2.3.e, LS.2.2.3.f, LS.2.2.4, LS.2.2.6.a, LS.2.2.6.b, LS.2.2.6.c, ESS.8.2.2.d, ESS.8.2.3, LS.4.4.1
AU Standards:
LT S1.3.3, LT S1.3.4, LT S1.3.7, ES S1.6.4, ES S1.6.5, INV S1.7.9, INV S1.7.10, UT S1.9.8, UT S1.9.9, UT S1.9.18, LT S2.3.1, LT S2.3.3, INV S2.7.7, INV S2.7.9
DE Standards:
1.1.30, 1.1.32, 1.1.33, 1.1.34, 1.1.35, 1.1.36, 1.1.38, 1.1.42, 1.1.43, 1.1.45, 1.1.46, 5.2.7, 6.1.2, 6.1.3, 6.1.4, 6.1.5, 6.2.1, 8.1.1, 8.1.3, 1.1.16, 1.1.17, 1.1.22, 1.1.24, 1.1.26, 1.1.32, 1.1.34, 5.1.5, 5.2.1, 6.2.2, 6.4.1, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.1.3, 8.2.1, 1.1.31, 1.1.32, 1.1.36, 1.1.40, 6.1.2, 6.1.3, 7.1.3, 8.1.1, 1.1.28, 3.1.1, 1.1.23
IL Standards:
12.4.04, 12.4.06, 12.4.07, 12.4.08, 12.4.09
ME Standards:
E1.a, E1.b, E2.b, E4.b, E1.a, E1.d, E5.d
MO Standards:
1.2, 1.3, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 1, 3, 4, 6, 3, 4, 7, 8, 1.2.C.a, 3.1.A.b, 3.1.A.c, 3.1.D.a, 3.1.D.c, 4.1.A.a, 3.1.A.a, 3.1.B.a, 3.1.B.b, 3.1.D.a, 3.3.D.a, 4.3.C.a, 5.2.A.a, 5.2.A.c, 3.1.E.b, 3.2.C.a, 3.2.B.a, 4.3.C.a, 5.1.A.a, 5.2.A.c, 5.3.A.c
NV Standards:
L.2.A.1, L.2.A.2, L.2.C.1, L.2.D.1, L.5.B.1, L.5.C.5, L.5.D.1
OK Standards:
C.2.1, C.2.1, D.3.1, C.2.1, C.2.2, C.2.3, D.3.2
UT Standards:
V.1.b, III.2.a, III.3.c, III.3.d, III.3.e, V.1.e, V.2.a, V.2.d, V.3.e
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