Workshop Highlights

National Children & Youth Garden Symposium

Here We Grow! Curriculum Resources for Successful School Garden Experiences

Here We Grow School Gardening

• School Garden Center
• Here We Grow PowerPoint
• Teaching in Nature's Classroom

Resource Packet

• About Agriculture in the Classroom
• Bee Line Newsletter
• AgroWorld Newsletter
• 2020 National Agriculture in the Classroom Conference
• Tips for Starting a School Garden
• Sow the Seeds: Benefits of a School Garden
• iGardening: Integrated Activities for Teaching in the Common Core Era
• Choose MyPlate Fact Sheet
• Purple Plow Puzzlers
• State Agricultural Facts
• Utah State University Extension: Yard and Garden

Setting the Context

• Why People Need Plants
• What is a Fruit? What is a Vegetable?

Curriculum Resources

Observing and Dissecting Seeds

• The Seed Match
• How Does Your Garden Grow?
• Seeds, Miraculous Seeds

What Does a Seed Need to Germinate?

• Ragdoll Test to Germinate Seeds
• Gardening or Farming in a Glove
• Living Corn Necklace
• My Little Seed House and Seed Book

What Does a Plant Need to Grow?

• How Does Your Garden Grow?
• Terrariums: A Look at the Living and Nonliving World

Parts of a Plant

• Eating Plants
• Flower Power

Life Cycle of a Flowering Plant

• How Does Your Garden Grow?
• Pumpkins...Not Just part of Halloween

Soil

• Types by Texture
• Soil Texture and Water Percolation
• Color in the Garden
• Vermicomposting