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Garden Planning - Kindergarten

Books to Read

This Year’s Garden by Cynthia Rylant Water, Weed, and Wait by Edith Hope Fine

Students learn about planning, create a map, and design their dream garden.

Goals Students learn what people need to create a successful a garden and what plants need to thrive. Through a hands-on activity, students learn about mapping and construct a “bird’s-eye-view” picture of a garden bed. Through a reflection process, students work together to make group decisions in planning a classroom garden.

NC Standards Addressed English Language Arts – 1.01, 3.01, 3.02, 4.04; Healthful Living –1.01, 4.02; Mathematics – 1.01, 2.02, 3.01, 3.04; Science – 2.04; Social Studies – 2.02, 5.02, 5.03, 5.04, 5.05, 6.03.

NC Common Core English Language Arts – RI.K.5, RI.K.6, RI.K.3, W.K.1 Mathematics – K.CC, K.G.2, K.G.6

Materials Supplies -White paper -Vegetables to taste -Poster of vegetables to plant in the spring -Poster of Examples of “Bird’s-eye-view” Drawings -Drawing and writing materials Preparation You will need to make two posters – examples of these posters and the corresponding images are attached to this lesson plan.

Vocabulary Bird’s-eye-view: A view from high above, how a bird would see something.

Activities Read a Book To help students start thinking about garden planning and the cycle of a garden read Water, Weed, Wait or This Year’s Garden. Discuss what the people in the books planted and did in the garden. Relate that to where the class is in the garden and season cycle. Discussion and Brainstorm

1. Begin by talking with students about their garden experience, who has a garden at home, who has grandparents with gardens? Have students brainstorm a little about why someone would grow a garden? (Nutrition, fitness, fun, beauty). Students should have a chance to share their favorite things




Garden Planning - Kindergarten

about gardens and gardening. Explain to students that this year the class gets to make a garden and all of the students get to help plan what they’ll plant.

2. Discuss different types of gardens – vegetable, flower, herb, etc. Discuss what you will need to make

the garden - tools, site, water, sun, seeds, plants, teamwork, etc. What are things we need to consider when planning out a vegetable garden? What do plants need to grow – air, water, light, space, temperatures, weather? Are there certain types of vegetables that won’t grow in our garden in the spring?

3. Show students the poster of vegetables that the class can plant in March. Which of the vegetables have the students tried? Did they cook with any of the veggies in the fall with Farm to School? Give them a taste of several of the vegetables listed on the poster.

Design a Dream Garden Bed in Our Garden Journals

4. Ask students if they can guess what a “Bird’s-eye-view” may be? Show students the poster of the examples of bird’s-eye-views. Talk about perspective and how you are going to draw a picture from the perspective of a bird looking down on a garden. This is each student’s chance to illustrate what his or her ideal garden bed would look like. Have students consider the following: What they want to plant Have them think about how much space different types of plants might need How many of each plant do they want – would you want only one carrot plant, 50 hot pepper

plants? 5. Give each student a piece of white paper and colored pencils. Refer again to the poster of vegetables

that can be planted in the spring. Which vegetables do they want to include in their garden? Ask them to draw a map of their dream garden bed, using the photos of the vegetables and the birds-eye-view drawings as guides.

Tally it and Wrap up

6. Create a class list of the things students want to plant, add a tick mark each time a plant is included in another student’s plan.

7. Discuss similarities and differences between students’ garden bed plans. How could the class combine

all the students' gardens into a class garden? Looking at the class list, pick the top 3 or 4 things to plant. Will the plants they chose grow in the spring and in Western North Carolina? Work with students to decide a few things they should definitely include in the garden.




Garden Planning – 1st Grade

Books to Read


Students learn about planning, create a map, and design their dream garden. Goals Through a hands-on activity, students learn about mapping and construct a “bird’s-eye-view” picture of a garden bed. Students work together to make group decisions in planning a classroom garden. NC Standards Addressed: English Language Arts –2.03, 2.07, 3.01, 4.06, 5.02; Healthful Living – 1.02; Mathematics – 1.01, 3.04; Science –1.01; Social Studies –2.03, 5.01, 5.03, 5.05. NC Common Core: English Language Arts –RL.1.1, RL.1.10, W.1.5 Mathematics – 1.NBT.1, 1.NBT.2a, 1.NBT.2c, 1.G.2 Materials Supplies -White paper -Vegetables to taste -Poster of vegetables to plant in the spring -Examples of “Bird’s-eye-view” drawings -Drawing and writing materials Preparation You will need to make two posters – examples of these posters and the corresponding images are attached to this lesson plan.

Vocabulary Bird’s-eye-view: A view from high above, how a bird would see something.

Activities Read a Book To help students start thinking about garden planning and the cycle of a garden read Water, Weed, Wait or This Year’s Garden. Discuss what the people in the books planted and did in the garden. Relate that to where the class is in the garden and season cycle. Discussion and Brainstorm

1. Begin by talking with students about their garden experience, who has a garden at home, who has grandparents with gardens? Have students brainstorm a little about why someone would grow a garden? (Nutrition, fitness, fun, beauty). Students should have a chance to share their favorite things about gardens and gardening. Explain to students that this year the class gets to make a garden and all of the students get to help plan what they’ll plant.

2. Discuss different types of gardens – vegetable, flower, herb, etc. Discuss what you will need to make the garden

- tools, site, water, sun, seeds, plants, teamwork, etc. What are things we need to consider when planning out a




Garden Planning – 1st Grade

vegetable garden? What do plants need to grow – air, water, light, space, temperatures, weather? Are there certain types of vegetables that won’t grow in our garden in the spring?

3. Show students the poster of vegetables that the class can plant in March. Which of the vegetables have the students tried? Did they cook with any of the veggies in the fall with Farm to School? Give them a taste of several of the vegetables listed on the poster (peas and carrots enclosed).

Design a Dream Garden Bed in Our Garden Journals

4. Ask students if they can guess what a “Bird’s-eye-view” may be? Show students the poster of the examples of bird’s-eye-views. Talk about perspective and how you are going to draw a picture from the perspective of a bird looking down on a garden. This is each student’s chance to illustrate what his or her ideal garden bed would look like. Have students consider the following: What they want to plant Have them think about how much space different types of plants might need How many of each plant do they want – would you want only one carrot plant, 50 hot pepper plants?

5. Give each student a piece of white paper and colored pencils. Refer again to the poster of vegetables that can be

planted in the spring. Which vegetables do they want to include in their garden? Ask them to draw a map of their dream garden bed, using the photos of the vegetables and the birds-eye-view drawings as guides.


6. Create a class list of the things students want to plant, add a tally mark each time a plant is included in another student’s plan.

7. Discuss similarities and differences between students’ garden bed plans. How could the class combine all the

students' gardens into a class garden? Looking at the class list, pick the top 3 or 4 things to plant. Work with students to decide a few things they should definitely include in their spring garden.




Garden Planning – 2nd Grade

Books to Read


Students learn about planning, create a map, and design their dream garden. Goals Students learn what people need to create a successful a garden and what plants need to thrive. Through a hands-on activity, students learn about mapping and construct a “bird’s-eye-view” picture of a garden bed. Through a reflection process, students work together to make group decisions in planning a classroom garden. NC Standards Addressed English Language Arts – 2.01, 2.02, 2.03, 2.06, 4.05; Mathematics – 1.01, 1.02, 1.03; Science - 1.02, 2.06; Social Studies: – 3.01. NC Common Core English Language Arts – RL.2.4, RL.2.5, RI.2.2, SL.2.1 Mathematics – 2.NBT, 2.G.3 Materials -White paper -Vegetables to taste -Poster of vegetables to plant in the spring/summer/fall -Examples of “Bird’s-eye-view” drawings -Drawing and writing materials Activities Read a Book To help students start thinking about garden planning and the cycle of a garden read Water, Weed, Wait or This Year’s Garden. Discuss what the people in the books planted and did in the garden. Relate that to where the class is in the garden and season cycle. Discussion and Brainstorm

1. Begin by talking with students about their garden experience, who has a garden at home, who has grandparents with gardens? Have students brainstorm a little about why someone would grow a garden? (Nutrition, fitness, fun, beauty). Students should have a chance to share their favorite things about gardens and gardening. Explain to students that this year the class gets to make a garden and all of the students get to help plan what they’ll plant.

2. Discuss different types of gardens – vegetable, flower, herb, etc. Discuss what you will need to make

the garden - tools, site, water, sun, seeds, plants, teamwork, etc. What are things we need to consider when planning out a vegetable garden? What do plants need to grow – air, water, light, space, temperatures, weather? Are there certain types of vegetables that won’t grow in our garden in the spring? What are some insects you find in a garden? What types of insects might we want to attract to the garden? Keep away? How could we make a garden for insects in addition to ourselves?




Garden Planning – 2nd Grade

3. Show students the poster of vegetables that the class can plant in the garden. Which of the vegetables have the students tried? Have they cooked with any of the vegetables? Give them a taste of several of the vegetables listed on the poster.

Design a Dream Garden

4. Ask students if they can guess what a “Bird’s-eye-view” may be? Show students the poster of the examples of bird’s-eye-views. Talk about perspective and how you are going to draw a picture from the perspective of a bird looking down on a garden. This is each student’s chance to illustrate what his or her ideal garden bed would look like. Have students consider the following: What they want to plant Have them think about how much space different types of plants might need How many of each plant do they want – would you want only one carrot plant, 50 hot pepper

plants? What they would plant for themselves, for insects How things would be organized. Would you want to plant sunflowers in front of lettuce

(height)? Have them think about how much space different types of plants might need Estimate what fraction of the garden each type of plant would cover. Would they want half of

their garden to be lettuce? Would that leave them enough space to plant other things? 5. Give each student a piece of white paper and colored pencils. Refer again to the poster of vegetables

that can be planted. Which vegetables do they want to include in their garden? Ask them to draw a map of their dream garden bed, using the photos of the vegetables and the birds-eye-view drawings as guides.


6. Create a class list of the things students want to plant, add a tick mark each time a plant is included in another student’s plan.

7. Discuss similarities and differences between students’ garden bed plans. How could the class combine

all the students' gardens into a class garden? Looking at the class list, pick the top 3 or 4 things to plant. Will the plants they chose grow in Western North Carolina? Work with students to decide a few things they should definitely include in the garden.

Examples of

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Example Posters for Lesson Plan

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LETTUCE

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