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Innovate Lesson Plan (Grades 1-2)

Using NGSS Standard 1-LS1-2, this Lesson is designed for grades 1 and 2. Students read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.


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Innovate Lesson Plan (Grades 3-5)

One of three lesson plans in our Innovate Program about Plant Breeding and Gene Editing. Using NGSS Standard 3-LS3-2, this Lesson is designed for grades 3, 4 and 5. Students will use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment. Objective: Students will investigate environmental factors that influence plant traits. […]


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Innovate Lesson Plan (Grades 6-8)

One of three lesson plans in our Innovate Program about Plant Breeding and Gene Editing. Using NGSS Standard MS-LS4-5, this lesson is designed for grades 6, 7 and 8. Students will gather and synthesize information about technologies that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms. Objective: Students will be […]


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Connecting the Garden to the Classroom

Here are some specific ideas for ways to use your garden as a multidisciplinary teaching tool.


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Sustaining Your Program

School gardens are a significant investment of time, energy, and resources, so you want them to last beyond one growing season!  


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Growing Guides

In-depth advice from site selection to harvesting, including all the steps in between, plus fun facts about each plant.


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Indoor Seed Starting Q&A

Find answers to commonly asked questions about starting plants from seed indoors.


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When to Plant Seeds

Correct timing of both indoor seed sowing and outdoor seeding and transplanting is a crucial part of growing healthy plants. Here are some guidelines for sowing and planting.  


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Starting and Sustaining a School Garden: Overview

The school garden offers a place to enrich teaching efforts with powerful hands-on experiences that make learning come alive.


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Journey to the Center of a Seed

Students observe, sort, and classify a variety of seeds according to different properties, and then take a journey inside a bean seed to predict and observe changes that occur during seed germination.


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