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What’s in the Garden? |
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An Apple a Day – In this activity, students focus on apples and learn more about them through various activities and experiments. | |
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Fruit or Vegetable? – In this activity, students use the reproducible bookmarks and decide whether a garden plant is a “fruit” as well as a “vegetable.” | |
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Let’s Get Cookin’ – In this activity, students make a salad using all six plant parts, as indicated in “Accept the Salad Challenge” on page 30 of the book. They also explore various food traditions after reading the book. | |
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Name That Plant – In this activity, students learn about the six parts of a plant and match the twelve fruits and vegetables in the book to a specific plant part. | |
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Pollinator or Pest? – In this activity, students find animals in the book, including the six pollinators: cabbage white butterfl ies, ladybugs, bumblebees, garden spiders, honeybees, and squash bees, and discuss their effects on growing a garden. In a Venn Diagram older students list which creatures are pollinators, and which are pests. | |
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Supermarket Botany – In this activity, students make shopping lists and find the veggies and fruits at a food market, fruit and veggie stand or at the supermarket. | |
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Recipes – Twelve great kid-friendly recipes from What’s in the Garden? | |
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What’s in the Garden BOOKMARKS #1 | |
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What’s in the Garden BOOKMARKS #2 | |
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What’s in the Garden BOOKMARKS #3 | |
