Gardening Resources
Use these worksheets, references, and activities to teach children about soil, fruits, vegetables, and gardening. Enrich your curriculum with resources about flora, review garden tools, and enhance lessons with clip art images. Science activities about plant growth and development are a great way to introduce younger children to biology.
Gardening & Botany Lesson Plans & Activities
Choose from these resources to increase students' knowledge about gardening. Included are activities highlighting math and science skills through literature based activities, growing a class garden, and learning about different types of soil and habitats.
- Class Garden
- Family Activities: Plant a Garden
- How Does Your Garden Grow?
- What Is a Habitat?
- Which Soil Is Best for Plants?
- Literature & Math: Stories About Flowers
- Rachel Carson: The Coming of a Silent Spring
- Classifying Seeds
- Gardening Area
- Explore Activity: Explore Growing Sprouts
Children's Books
Expand your lessons with these Children's Books about gardens. Included are writing prompts, reading comprehension questions, enrichment activities, and more.
Gardening Worksheets
Expand students' knowledge about gardening with our worksheets. These activities enhance building skills such as predicting outcomes, use of antonyms, and visual discrimination.
- Kim's Garden
- Nonfiction Reading Warm-Up: Colonial Gardens
- Colorful Garden
- In a Garden
- What Are Seeds and Fruits?
- Activity: Seed Dispersal
- What Are the Parts of a Seed?
- Garden Tool Shapes
- How Does Your Garden Grow? Antonyms
Clip Art Images
Enhance your print or electronic lessons and help visual learners by using our Clip Art Images.
- Garden Gnome
- Peas
- Vegetables
- Spade
- Watering Can
Related Resources
Increase student knowledge with these numerous resources including printables, lessons, cross-curricular lessons and worksheets, and much more.
Recommended Gardening Resources
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WORKSHEETS
What Are the Parts of a Seed?
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BOOK GUIDES
The Secret Garden
Use this guide on The Secret Garden to stimulate discussions focused on themes, symbols, recurrent motifs, and Frances H... -
WORKSHEETS
Activity: Seed Dispersal
Read the passage in this printable to learn about the history of the tomato plant. Then, have students refer to the pass... -
WORKSHEETS
How Does Your Garden Grow? Antonyms
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DAILY WARM-UPS
Nonfiction Reading Warm-Up: Colonial Gardens
Students will read a nonfiction passage about Colonial gardens and answer related reading comprehension questions in thi... -
WORKSHEETS
Kim's Garden
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GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
In a Garden
Students use this graphic organizer to list what animals and plants are found in a garden. This printable is customizabl... -
WORKSHEETS
Colorful Garden
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WORKSHEETS
Gardening Area
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WORKSHEETS
What Are Seeds and Fruits?
Enrich your study of plant reproduction with a printable about seeds and fruits. Students will complete statements about... -
WORKSHEETS
Garden Tool Shapes
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WORKSHEETS
What Is a Habitat?
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LESSON PLANS
Class Garden
Create a class garden with this lesson plan. Your students will observe the growth of the plants after the garden has b... -
BOOK GUIDES
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Use this activity with The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter to enrich children's language and emergent literacy sk... -
ACTIVITIES
Which Soil Is Best for Plants?
Students are asked to identify which of two soil samples would be best for planting a garden. Assesses their understandi... -
LESSON PLANS
How Does Your Garden Grow?
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LESSON PLANS
Classifying Seeds
During this primary science lesson, students will learn classification by sorting seeds into categories based on appeara... -
WORKSHEETS
Family Activities: Plant a Garden
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WORKSHEETS
Literature & Math: Stories About Flowers
Enrich your curriculum with this printable lesson for Counting in the Garden by Kim Parker and The Reason for a Flower b... -
WORKSHEETS
The Garden of Abdul Gasazi Teacher's Guide
Discover the magic of Chris Van Allsburg's first children's book, The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. This printable teacher's g...