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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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Garden-Based Learning Scores
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"I had never gardened myself and didn't even know what a radish seed was," reports second and third grade Louisville, KY, teacher Andrea Miller.
According to new Kentucky Educational...
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Schoolyard Metamorphosis
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"Kids can rally around these vibrant, ephemeral creatures," explains Collegeville, PA, teacher Sandy Sweeney. "And by creating habitats for butterflies, students inadvertently invite...
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Learning Soars in Butterfly Garden
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"Our students have certainly learned the basics about butterflies and the plants they depend on, but our butterfly garden has yielded an even richer harvest than that," says fifth grade,...
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Milkweed Mavens
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"My tenth graders had paired up with elementary students to fill a butterfly nectar garden with butterfly bush, black-eyed Susans, and so on, then realized the need for larval host...
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Plant Watchers
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"When we began the PlantWatch Project, my sixth graders were tickled by the idea that plants can tell us things we wouldn't know if we didn't look at them," reports Peggy Bergmann...
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Growing Hope
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"A few years ago one of my students was harassed by other kids for reading a book about an African American," reports Warren, PA, middle school teacher Mark Davis.
"When I shared...
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Garden Club Mentors Bloom
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"Several years ago my fifth and sixth grade after-school 'service learning' garden club won your Kids Growing with Dutch Bulbs grant, then planted flower bulbs in our school beds and...
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Lessons to Dye For
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"Imagine the kinds of looks my second graders must have gotten when they asked the grocery store clerk if they could clean the onion skins out of the vegetable bin," reports Cambridge,...
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Bursting Blooms
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Although winter's chilly grip still lingers in many parts of the country, your students can invite an early spring and dig deeper into learning. Imagine coaxing buds on bare branches...
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