Challenge students to start some kind of edible plant this month that will be ready to eat by the end of the school year. Lettuce and radish are good possibilities.
Writing Prompts
- Start a story with this sentence: "There's something about the smell of freshly-dug earth."
- Write an ode to the earth worm.
- Write a 250-word description of a compost pile.
- Students follow the Scientific Study Format to plan and conduct experiments with their compost pile.
- Students keep track of what they add to pile and record observations in a journal.
- Students measure temperature of pile weekly and graph temperatures.
- One group prepares a planting bed using sheet composting. Another group use conventional technique.
- Students follow the Scientific Study Format to plan and conduct experiments with their planting beds.
- Compare results.
- The Art of Growing Things
- Jr. Sprout-Gardening
- Songs About Growing Things
- Anatomy of a Peanut
- Berry Painting
- Garden in a Glove
- Growing Letters
- Hardiness Zone Activity
- Tops & Bottoms
- Seed Ball Garden Activity
- Aeroponic Engineering and Vertical Farming (Grades 6-8)
- Aeroponic Engineering and Vertical Farming (Grades 9-12)
- Why People Need Plants