Web Sites We Like

• Coyne Center Elementary School Theme Gardens - The second graders' mural of the sunflower garden is but a small piece of a beautiful Web site describing thematic learning gardens and a dramatic arts project.
  
  
• Art Activities: Gardens as Visual Art - Details on engaging students in a Monet art project focused on flowers and his impressionist style.
  
  
  
• Kids View the World of Plants - Evocative images of plants and gardens created by school and youth groups as part of the U.S. Botanic Garden's "construction fence" exhibit.
  
  
• The Art Garden - Every plant in this middle school garden is used in art activities: dyeing, weaving, papermaking, and more. It features painted benches and path markers and beds designed with art and aesthetics in mind.
  
  
• The Private Eye - An exemplary program that challenges students to experience the wonder of looking closely at the world and thinking by analogy. (Check out the lesson called Towers 'N Flowers.)
  
  
• Garden Party Lesson Plans - A collection of K-6 projects in which students view works of well-known artists and then use specific media and techniques to create garden paintings.
  
  
• Making Decorative Garden Stones - Instructions for concrete-based stones with imaginative designs.