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Which End is Up?
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Its outside skin looks dead and its inside skin looks alive. It looks like an onion. I wonder if you can plant it. How come it has so many layers? These candid observations and "wonderings"...
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Growing Confidence
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"A couple of years ago, a student's grandmother who's committed to reaching kids through gardening offered to help our students develop an application for the National Gardening Association's...
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Herbal Communications
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"My second graders were eager to try raising herbs in the GrowLab from seed," reports second grade Cleveland, OH, teacher Kathy Adler. After choosing cilantro, parsley, lemon balm,...
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Growing Classroom Herbs
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Many herb plants can be easily grown in a classroom light garden or windowsill, started from seeds, cuttings, or plants. Local nurseries, friends' gardens, and catalogs are good sources...
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Space-Age Wheat
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How does a scientist find a food plant that can thrive on space farms where the artificial sun always shines, carbon dioxide levels are high, and space is tight? Through careful work...
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Fungus Amongus
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"My third graders had been exploring trees as part of a history unit when several began to wonder what happens to the leaves that fall in the autumn," reports Merion, PA, teacher Judith...
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Reading Your Plants
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Enough already about reading books about plants. If you're hoping to help plants thrive in a classroom garden, consider the importance of "reading your plants." A leggy bean or yellowed...
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Digging Into Grasses
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"My third graders didn't have a lot to say about grasses when we first started discussing them," reports Durham, NC, teacher Judy Rucker. "They frankly thought grasses were rather boring,...
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Way-Cool Student Compost
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Sure, compost is made from kitchen scraps ranging from broccoli stems to coffee grounds, but the term is usually applied to plant material once microbes have heated, then transformed...
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Inquiry Flows
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"Exploring life in the river near our school intrigued my third and fourth graders," reports Waits River, VT, teacher Cheryl Ollman. "But, of course, the time for working outside is...
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