Beyond the Bean Seed: Gardening Activities for Grades K6

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Have your students experience the thrill of life and growth through gardening, book-sharing, and other activities. Lessons integrate gardening, children's literature, and language arts through creative activities that that have poetry, word play, and recipes. Literature-based projects lead to learning in a variety of subjects-from ecology, history, and geography to career exploration and the sciences. An annotated bibliography provides a list of gardening-related resources. Grades K-6.

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NANCY ALLEN JURENKA is Professor, Education Department, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington. ROSANNE J. BLASS is Visiting Professor, College of Education, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.