An Apple a Day – In this activity, students focus on apples and learn more about them through various activities and experiments.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
Recipes – Twelve great kid-friendly recipes from What’s in the Garden?