Plant Web Connections
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Jolly Time Popcorn
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Jolly Time Popcorn provides educators with lessons on popcorn in the areas of history, science, geography, math, and language arts.
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The Popcorn Board
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The Popcorn Board provides teachers with information and ideas for including the study of popcorn in the classroom.
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The Great Plant Escape
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The Great Plant Escape allows students to join Detective LePlant and his partners, Bud and Sprout, on a journey into the life of plants.
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Kids Gardening
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Kids Gardening offers information on gardening, grants, activities, on-line courses, and much more on integrating gardening into the classroom.
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School Garden Wizard
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Learn how to connect the school garden to teaching and learning and to foster students’ curiosity by providing a natural context for hands-on investigations. Find out how to provide a multi-sensory environment that supports a diverse range of learning styles and abilities.
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Educational in Nature - Georgia Pacific
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Educational in Nature includes lessons, activities, and downloads on a variety of subjects to help students gain a better understanding and awareness of the environment.
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Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
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Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is a non-profit organization which focuses on public education, horticultural displays and botanical research, including 15 acres of expansive gardens.
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Integrating Horticulture into the Elementary School Curriculum
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This site was created to accompany a Virginia Tech, graduate-level summer class that is offered to teachers throughout the state. The purpose of the class and this site is to show you how horticulture can be used to enhance and strengthen classroom curriculum. This site provides information and links for teachers, parents and volunteers interested in creating new or adding to existing classroom horticulture activities and gardens.
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Ag-tivities for Soil-Minded Citizens
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This site contains hands-on lessons and activities for elementary, middle, and high school aged students.
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Seeds of Change Garden
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This site, created by the Smithsonian Institution’s Natural Partners Initiative, helps teach diversity and history by looking at the evolution of agriculture and cuisine throughout the world.
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North Carolina AITC Garden Integration
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This site offers teachers a step by step guide to starting a garden, as well as books, lesson plans, and other ideas for integrating gardening throughout the curriculum. |
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Pump Up the Curriculum with Pumpkins!
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This lesson planning article gives ideas for integrating pumpkins into the core curriculum areas.
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National Corn Growers Resource
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This site for “Corn in the Classroom” provides teachers and students with a variety of activities and information, adaptable to all ages, designed to teach the core subjects.
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Fun with the Plant Nutrient Team
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This site provides a comic book style publication for grades K-3, narrated by Nitrogen, Potassium and Phosphorus, on the importance of plant nutrients and modern technology in producing food and fiber.
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All about Peanuts and Peanut Butter
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This site contains downloadable activities and lessons for grades K-2 and grades 3-5 to relate the core subjects to the study of these interesting plants.
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