Gardening | Grades Kindergarten-2 | Math, Science, Language Arts, Social Studies, Physical Education

What We Eat – Part 1

Students will sort fruits and vegetables by examining plants – grown in the school garden, purchased in the market, or featured in models or pictures – into the parts of the plant eaten as food, identify a serving size, and locate where on MyPlate the food belongs.

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Gardening | Grades Kindergarten-2 | Science, Language Arts, Health, Physical Education

My Garden, MyPlate

Students will become familiar with the foods they eat and healthy eating habits while learning about the MyPlate food categories.

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Gardening | Grades Kindergarten-2 | Science, Language Arts, Social Studies, Physical Education

Salad Rap – Part 1

Students create a rap song/chant and dance promoting the components of their favorite salad, and use chant as a device to remember that plants do not eat and only plants produce food.

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Gardening | Grades 3-5 | Language Arts, Health, Physical Education, Science

A Rainbow of Nutrition

Students will research foods made from plant families (with support as needed), identify family members and common nutrients and create artwork of one family group or a food made from that family.

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Gardening | Grades Kindergarten-4 | Math, Science, Language Arts

Yo Seeds, Wake Up!

The way we plant seeds is very important. If seeds are planted too deeply, the young plants can use up their food resources before they ever reach light and begin to make their own food. If planted in soil that’s too dry, seeds may not obtain the necessary moisture to germinate. Soaking-wet soil, on the other hand, may prevent seeds from getting oxygen, or may cause them to rot.

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Gardening | Grades 3-8 | Language Arts, Science

We’re the Producers!

The purpose of gardening within an educational setting is to utilize the garden as an educational tool. The garden and skills developed by gardening provide concrete examples of theoretical or abstract concepts or processes. This is critical for some students and will result in both greater understanding of difficult concepts and application of those concepts across diverse topics. Before one can garden well, a great deal of science needs to be understood and applied. The understanding of photosynthesis is the first of those concepts. This lesson is designed to make this relatively abstract process concrete for students and, in particular, young students.

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Gardening | Grades Kindergarten-3 | Science, Language Arts, Math

What Are We Eating?

A significant reason to engage in gardening in schools is to teach students, and allow them to discover for themselves, how plants grow and what part of the plant we eat. That is the purpose of this activity.

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Gardening | Grades 3-7 | Math, Science, Language Arts

Feed Me — Nutritional Building Blocks

The difference between human nutrition and plant nutrients is often one of the concepts that students misunderstand. This is proven in documented errors found in standardized test questions. Students hear the term “plant food” and take that term literally, believing that plants eat (as animals do) to obtain nutrients. The intent of this lesson is to clear up that misconception as well as to teach students about the actual nutrients that plants require and the source of those nutrients.

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Gardening | Grades 3-5 | Science, Language Arts, Health, Physical Education

My Meal Choices

Student will collect personal meal consumption data, align those foods to the food guide food groups, and cross reference that information with the MyPlate to compare personal eating habits and to recommended guidelines. Students also will use that information to create their own food web.

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Gardening | Grades 2-4 | Science, Language Arts

Turning Over a New Leaf

Students examine variations in leaves and consider how leaf adaptations can help plants survive in different environments.

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