Gardening with Children: Resources for Teachers

The Foundation Center is a national nonprofit service organization connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants; issues a wide variety of print, electronic, and online information resources; conducts and publishes research on trends in foundation growth, giving, and practice; and offers an array of free and affordable educational programs.

Grant Wrangler® is a free grants listing service that makes it easier for teachers, librarians, and parents to find funding, including grants and awards for arts, history, mathematics, science, technology, and more. The site can be searched by keyword, category, or deadline.

This site from The National Gardening Association provides an updated list of grants and awards available for teachers. It also provides a link to subscribe to their monthly newsletter, which features, among other things, announcements about new grant opportunities.

Public school teachers post classroom project requests this site. Donors browse requests and give to their choice of projects.

A to Z Teacher Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more. This site in particular lists resources on a plant theme.

BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement. All are supported by BrainPOP Educators, our teacher community now more than 100,000 members strong and featuring free lesson plans, video tutorials, professional development tools, graphic organizers, best practices, and much more. This page contains resources regarding plants.

Discovery Education, a division of Discovery Communications, LLC the leading global nonfiction media company, provides engaging digital resources to schools and homes with the goal of making educators more effective, increasing student achievement, and connecting classrooms and families to a world of learning.

First-School features free fun preschool lesson plans, educational early childhood activities, printable crafts, worksheets, calendar of events and other resources for children of preschool age. The preschool crafts, lesson plans and activities are appropriate and adaptable for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarten level (ages 2 to 6).

HotChalk's LessonPlansPage.com is a collection of over 4,000 lesson plans from Preschool through High School and beyond, that were developed by Kyle Yamnitz, students and faculty at The University of Missouri, and more recently by the users of this website. Launched in October of 1996, The Lesson Plans Page was developed to assist educators of all types. The "Science Projects" section contains a set of plant-related experiments.

This site from the National Arbor Day Foundation contains educational resources appropriate for children ranging in age from preschool to late elementary school.

PBS Teachers is PBS' national web destination for high-quality preK-12 educational resources. Here you'll find classroom materials suitable for a wide range of subjects and grade levels. We provide thousands of lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations. On this site, you can search by grade level (preK, K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12) and then by subject matter (the science & tech section contains a number of useful topics).

This site contains numerous resources for parents and educators of young children. The science section in particular lists a number of plant and garden-related activities for preschool-aged children.