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Captain Planet Foundation

Shape Shifters in the Math Garden

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Combines mathematical measurement with gardening skills. Third graders hunt for worms in the garden and try to find the longest one. They also measure and weigh vegetables that they harvest from the garden, measure rainfall amounts,...
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Lesson Plan
Captain Planet Foundation

George Washington Carver and the Sweet Potato

For Teachers 1st
Learn about George Washington Carver's important contributions to agriculture by studying the sweet potato. First graders read about the inventor's observations and prepare sweet potato slips for the class garden. Additionally, they...
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Printables
PreKinders

Garden Word Cards

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Whether you are starting a class garden, reading a story about gardens, or want to teach your little ones about sustainable living, these vocabulary cards are a great introduction. Featuring words like watering...
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Lesson Plan
Captain Planet Foundation

Sense of Place

For Teachers K
Explore the five senses with a kindergarten lesson plan on gardening. After taking a walk through the class garden, kids note what they see, hear, feel, taste, and smell, and then decide what is living in the garden versus what is not...
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Lesson Plan
Captain Planet Foundation

Solar Cooking Race

For Teachers 3rd
Study heat transfer with activities that focus on how heat energy works. Using a solar cooker, ice cubes, and heat transfer bracelets, kids experiment and record what they find by keeping ice cubes cold and vegetables hot.
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Lesson Plan
Captain Planet Foundation

Plant Parts Salad

For Teachers 1st
How are vegetables beneficial to a healthy diet? Have kids examine different types of vegetables, such as zucchini, broccoli, and carrots, and determine which parts of the plant they represent. Then, they taste the vegetables as a...
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Lesson Plan
Captain Planet Foundation

Worm Your Way Out of This

For Teachers 3rd
How can you provide healthy soil for your garden? Study worms, bacteria, and other microorganisms in a lesson about decomposition and organic compost. After discussing what you know about worms and watching a video, watch what worms do...
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Captain Planet Foundation

Fall into Healthy Shapes

For Teachers K Standards
Kindergartners identify geometric shapes by planting a fall garden. They start their seeds in containers that have different shapes, and keep track of their plants based on those shapes. This brilliantly designed and incredibly thorough...
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Lesson Plan
Captain Planet Foundation

Frog Garden Party! Toads and Triangles in the Math Garden

For Teachers 4th Standards
It's frog party time! With frog banners, frog juice, and a triangle hunt, your garden party is sure to be both entertaining and educational. The lesson plan connects geometry, earth science, and delicious snacks to teach kids about...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Estimation to Check Decimal Multiplication: Watering a Garden

For Students 6th Standards
Mathematicians solve six multiple-choice and true or false questions using their knowledge of estimation and multiplying decimals. The interactive provides a garden-themed tool that creates a visual aid of three watering cans to assist...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rectangular Gardens Within A Given Perimeter

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders design rectangular gardens with a given perimeter and generalize how to maximize the area Students applying the formulas for perimeter and area of polygons. They analyze length, area, and volume and make relationships...
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Lesson Plan
Captain Planet Foundation

Energy Flow in the Garden

For Teachers 4th
How can you tell what an owl has eaten? Study the food chain and flow of energy in an ecosystem by dissecting an owl pellet and noting the bones found inside. Additionally, the lesson includes a game about consumers and producers with a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Does Your KinderGarden Grow

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners find forecast and graph weather by using WeatherBug site, create flower books by using Wiggleworks, and plant radish seeds both on KidPix and in class garden.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rooftop Gardens

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate how to help a city building remain cooler on the inside. They create a rooftop garden in order to shield the building and lower the internal temperature. The garden is meant to replace the black tar paper that...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Oyster Gardens - No Soil Required!

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Explore the practice of oyster gardening. Because oysters play a vital role in marine ecosystems and their populations have declined, biologists are transplanting oyster seed to repopulate reefs. After learning about this practice,...
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Worksheet
abcteach

Spring Missing Letters

For Students 2nd - 4th
Welcome the arrival of spring with this fun little spelling worksheet. Including different terms relating to plants, gardening, and springtime weather, children must correctly spell each word by filling in the missing...
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Curated OER

Landscape Garden Makeover

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A project-based learning plan focuses on landscapes in the community. After identifying problems, such as dead trees or misplaced automatic sprinklers, learners design solutions, contact local organizations to fix the problems, and do...
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Curated OER

Water Gardening

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners study the details to watering a garden. In this water resource lesson, students visit several websites and watch a PowerPoint about watering a garden.
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Curated OER

Planting a Xeriscape Garden

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use a plant database to discover new vocabulary associated with plants and ecosystems. Using a pile of dirt behind their school, they design a garden to make it a more enjoyable place. They print out the types of plants...
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Captain Planet Foundation

Rotting Away

For Teachers 2nd
What happens at the end of a plant's life cycle? Show kids the natural way that plants show that they're decomposing, as well as the importance of compost, with a lesson about living organisms. After reading Log Cabin by Anne Schreiber,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Add'm and Eve in the Garden

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research and design five different shaped raised beds for the school garden. In small groups, they conduct Internet research, measure and create a cost analysis for the construction and design, and submit their plans to the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food Labels

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students study Nutrition Facts labels. For this life science lesson, students explore Nutrition Facts labels, then determine and analyze the nutrients found in a variety of foods. Additionally students construct bug boxes used to collect...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Investigating Native Plants

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore Earth science by participating in a gardening activity. In this botany instructional activity, students discuss a group of non-native plants that would grow well in a school garden. Students complete a plant science...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Autumn Bulb Planting Outside - Making a Daffodil Spiral

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners plant daffodil bulbs. In this gardening activity, students work outside to plant daffodil bulbs in the autumn so that they can grow roots and emerge by spring.