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Growing Ideas Classroom Projects

Growing Poems
Cultivating Creativity and Communication Skills
through Garden-Inspired Poetry

Building Soil Nature's Way
Exploring Decomposition and Soil Health

Growing UP (and around, and down...)
Exploring Plant Growth with Garden Structures

Creating a Pond Habitat
Learning with the Liquid of Life

Creating Herb Gardens
Inspiring Aromatic Adventures

Hooked on Hummingbirds
Invite the dynamos of the bird world into your schoolyard and curriculum

Inviting Butterflies to the Schoolyard
Learning Takes Wing

Bursting Blooms
Create an Early Spring

Making Field Journals
A Binding Experience

Food and Culture
Exploring the Flavors of Your Community

Coaxing Flower Bulbs
Learning Blooms Indoors

Making Weather-Tracking Tools
Measuring Changes, Sleuthing Seasons, Testing Lore

An Eye on the Garden

Using Cameras to Focus Learning

Dyeing to Find Out
Extracting Nature's Colors

Preserving Buds and Blooms
Drying Summer's Hues

Growing Garden Companions
Promoting Plant Partnerships

Gardening in Containers

Growing in Small and Soilless Spaces

Collecting Plants: A Pressing Project
Making Herbaria, Field Guides, Gifts

Creating a Pollinator Garden
Preserving a Precious Partnership

Feeding the Birds
Enticing and Observing Feathered Guests

Making Paper
Experience the Fiber of Learning

Pondering Plant Coverups
Strrrrretching the Growing Season

Preserving the Harvest
Dry it Out!


Creating a Three Sisters Garden
Discovering a Native Trio

Native Beauty
Creating a Wildflower Planting