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Junior Flower Show: Class Resources

Use this guide to learn how to prepare your students to enter the Junior Flower Show

Textbook

Schoolyard Habitat Project Guide by US Fish & Wildlife Service
GrowLab: Activities for Growing Minds by Pranis, Eve
ISBN: 091587332X
Digging Deeper: Integrating Youth Gardens into Schools & Communities: A Comprehensive Guid - by Kiefer, Joseph and Martin Kemple
ISBN: ISBN: 188443004X

Creating a School Garden

Guide for Creating School Gardens as Outdoor Classrooms
Center for Ecoliteracy's complete guide
Summer maintenance
Children and Lead in the Garden
Steps to a Classroom Garden
George's favorite book
Site Analysis

Learning with Plants

Botany: Plant Parts & Functions
Kids Grow Expo
Plant Needs Experiment Worksheet
Site Analysis Worksheet--Outdoor Garden
Site Analysis -- Indoor Garden
Steps to a Classroom Garden
Garden-Based Programming Across Subjects
Search for "garden based programming" inside the website for specific suggestions.
Gardening With Children
Right Plant Right Place
plant needs experiment
Session 1 study sheet.doc
Education.com

Schoolyard Habitats

Trees

How to Plant a Balled & Burlapped Tree

Indoor Gardening and Light Units

Light Gardening
Good description of different kinds of bulbs.
Directions for using CFL's
Houseplants
How to Build a Terrarium
4H Growing Plants Indoors
Propagate Houseplants from Cuttings
Propagate Houseplants from Runners
Earthboxes
Earthbox Lesson Plans
Primex
The folks who donated the Earthboxes.
Organic Mechanics
The folks who donated the soil for the Earthboxes.
Semilla Arts Initiative

Resources

Eco Express
CONNECTING KIDS TO THE NATURAL WORLD.
TIED TO STANDARDS. LOCAL. RELEVANT. REAL
Champions for Healthy Kids Grant Program
Applications Open for General Mills Foundation 2011 Champions for Healthy Kids Grant Program
Hearst Endowed Fellowship for Minority Students
Aspen Institute Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation Invites Applications for William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fellowship for Minority Students
Lowe's Toolbox for Education
Deadline Feb 18.
Grantwrangler
Free grant listing service for Teachers
Donors Choose
Create a project, solicit a donor!
Eartheasy
Environmental websites for kids
Crowdsourcing/fundraising
Grants.gov
Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative (UNI)

Class Agendas

Bulbs

Botany of Desire
PHS McLean Library has a copy of the DVD.
Botany of Desire lesson plan
What is a Bulb? Plant Parts
Studying Tulips
Tulip Cross-section lesson
Tulip Plant Parts
Tulips--the Journey North
Track Change in Seasons and Climate Around the Globe by when tulips bloom
World in an Amaryllis Box
Amaryllis Planting Instructions

Amazing Amaryllis Activities

Amaryllis Poster --Georgia O'Keefe

Science Lesson Amaryllis