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Activities by month
 
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Apples
 
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Composting
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Drying flowers
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Forcing blooms
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fossils
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Insects & Garden Organisms
 
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Nature Trail
                
Nutrition
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Plant parts & cycles
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Plant Parts & Processes
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Pressing flowers
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Propogate cuttings in water
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Propogate cuttings in soil
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Seeds
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Soil
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Click here for lesson plan descriptions
Lesson plans by grade
First Grade
Identifying, pulling, counting and Sorting Weeds
Identifying and Tallying Garden Organisms
Seed Dispersal and Collection
Apple Tree
Basic Needs of Living Things
 
Second Grade
Comparing Weed Categories
Identifying Insects
Seed Dispersal and Collection
Seed Parts and Germination
Flower Parts and Pollination
Plant Parts
Third Grade
600-3-00-a-weeds-and-graphing.doc
600-3-00-a-introduction-garden-organisms.
doc
600-3-00-a-soil-formation.doc
Soil basics that 
Soil formation
Soil Texture 
Fourth Grade
600-4-00-a-weeds-and-VennDiagrams.doc
600-4-00-a-introduction-garden-organisms.
doc
600-4-00-a-flower-parts-and-pollination.doc
600-4-00-a-plantlifecycle-fungusexperiment.
doc
Fossils
Soil formation
Soil lesson assessment
Compost - Decomposers - ecosystems
Seed Parts & Germination
Plant Parts and Processes
Plant Life cycle: annual, biennial, perennial, seed dispersal 
600-4-00-a-tree-identification-using-
dichotomous key.doc
 
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."  Robert Louis Stevenson
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