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Title:
| Landscape Design |
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Description:
| These sites offer basic principles, tips, and ideas on how to design an attractive backyard landscape. Find out how to plan the yard layout, choose the right plants and vegetables, select colors, and decorative ornaments. Includes quizzes, audio, and video. There are links to eThemes Resources on gardening and propagation. |
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Grade Level:
| 5, 6, 7, 8 |
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Resource Links:
| BBC Gardening: How to be a Gardener Part Two
This interactive site is all about gardening and landscaping. Start with the "Basics" circle to learn about the importance of landscape design and planning. Use navigational arrows for step-by-step design instruction and do not forget to watch movies in the "Video Clip" section. NOTE: The "Talk" link leads to message boards.
Planning My Garden
While planning a garden learn how to care and when to plant certain vegetables and flowers.
BBC: Virtual Garden
Create your own virtual garden online and view the final project in a three-dimensional presentation. NOTE: The "Talk" link leads to message boards. NOTE: Site requires Shockwave.
Container Garden Ideas
Learn how to set up your own garden in a small container. Use the link "Next" at the top for more design ideas.
BBC: Make a Prickly Garden
Here is an idea how to create a little desert in a pot.
Awesome Accents from Fernlea Flowers
Here are several planting ideas for designing a landscape in a pot.
Winning Combinations
This three-page PDF file has three combinations of plants for simple and colorful summer garden.
Basic Principles and Elements of Landscape Design
Find out how simplicity, line, focal point, form, texture, color, balance, and repetition create the best landscape designs.
Perfect Landscapes
View photographs of various landscaping, walkways, and ponds designs. Click on thumbnails to enter a selected image gallery.
Landscape Design Examples
View several blueprints of landscape designs.
eThemes Resource: Plants: Gardening
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.
eThemes Resource: Plants: Propagation
Learn about plant or vegetative propagation. Find out about propagation methods, type of plants that they are applied to, propagation seasons, and gardeners' tools used for propagation. Find out how to propagate houseplants, flowers, and woody plants. Includes images, video, propagation charts, and a lesson plan. There are resources on gardening and plant science: teaching with comedy.
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Education Standards:
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MO Standards:
1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 3, 8
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