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.

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.

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

What Are the Parts of a Seed?

WORKSHEETS

What Are the Parts of a Seed?

BOOK GUIDES

The Secret Garden

Use this guide on The Secret Garden to stimulate discussions focused on themes, symbols, recurrent motifs, and Frances H...

Activity: Seed Dispersal

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...

How Does Your Garden Grow? Antonyms

WORKSHEETS

How Does Your Garden Grow? Antonyms

Nonfiction Reading Warm-Up: Colonial Gardens

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...

Kim's Garden

WORKSHEETS

Kim's Garden

In a Garden

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...

Colorful Garden

WORKSHEETS

Colorful Garden

Gardening Area

WORKSHEETS

Gardening Area

What Are Seeds and Fruits?

WORKSHEETS

What Are Seeds and Fruits?

Enrich your study of plant reproduction with a printable about seeds and fruits. Students will complete statements about...

Garden Tool Shapes

WORKSHEETS

Garden Tool Shapes

What Is a Habitat?

WORKSHEETS

What Is a Habitat?

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...

Which Soil Is Best for Plants?

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...

How Does Your Garden Grow?

LESSON PLANS

How Does Your Garden Grow?

LESSON PLANS

Classifying Seeds

During this primary science lesson, students will learn classification by sorting seeds into categories based on appeara...

Family Activities: Plant a Garden

WORKSHEETS

Family Activities: Plant a Garden

Literature & Math: Stories About Flowers

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...

The Garden of Abdul Gasazi Teacher's Guide

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...

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