Spring 2024 is the last season of our USDA Grant-funded curriculum update! Our Curriculum Specialist, Charlotte Sandkuhler, has created a new seasonal Lesson Menu. We welcome your input!
Garden Lesson Videos and Activities
Created for home learning during the pandemic, these videos are presented by seasoned educators, based on our 2018-2021 curriculum. Each lesson comes with suggestions for activities to be done at home, in a garden, or in a yard or neighborhood.
Lessons for spring gardens
- 1st Grade – Planting Lettuce – Parents and Offspring
lessons for late summer gardens
- PreK – Exploring Pumpkins and Sunflowers
- Kindergarten – Garden Scientists Using Our 5 Senses
- 1st Grade – Seed Exploration
- 2nd Grade – Insects And Their Habitats
- 3rd Grade – Fall Harvest Producers and Consumers
- 4th Grade – Nutrition in the Garden
- 5th Grade – Plant vs. Human Structures and Systems
Lessons for any time of year
- Kindergarten – Garden Scientists Using Our 5 Senses
There are many other school garden support organizations around the country that have share resources! we’re sharing some of our favorites here:
- We love these activities about food and sustainability from the Center for Ecoliteracy.
- The Junior Master Gardener program is hosting a series of live activities for elementary students. Join them every Tuesday and Thursday at noon MST through May 19, 2020.
- Back Pocket Learning provides easy, engaging, off-screen activities for kids with minimal materials. Options include outdoor explorations, crafts and recipes.
- Big Green at Home shares new and engaging lessons, videos, events, and activities perfect for the at-home learner.
- This unit on food waste and composting as a solution to climate change is designed for 5th grade.
- Farmer’s Footprint created this list of Regenerative Activities for Kids for exploring soil, seeds, compost, and biodiversity.
- Kids Gardening has a long list of resources and activities to get families gardening and exploring nature.
- National Agriculture in the Classroom has a bunch of eLearning activities for grades PK-12.
- Partners for Education, Agriculture, and Sustainability have video lessons on the topics of cooking, nutrition, gardening and nature exploration.
- Green Our Schools has a set of video STEM Garden Lessons.