Resources for Educators
Lessons and Activities
All Ages
- Soil Art
- Butterfly Puddle
- Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling in the Garden
- Create a Nature Perfume! (Video)
- Make Your Own Nature Journal (Video)
- Seed Starting
- Worm Trivia
- Flower Pounding (Video)
- Six of One, Half Dozen of the Other (Video)
- Flower Mandala
- Seed Mosaic Planter
- Plant a Rainbow
- Social Distancing Bingo! (4-11)
- Matching Mates
- Leaf Rubbings
- Gardening Activities Book (5-12)
- Painting with Natural Materials (Video)
- Can You Make Soil? (Video)
- Nature Mandalas (Video)
JKSK
- JK-Grade 2 – Pollination Patrol
- JK-Grade 2 – Roots and Shoots
- Garden Search
- Plant a seed and see what grows
- Kindergarten Ontario Curriculum Chart
- Animals In Our Food System
- Great Big Crunch
- JK-Grade 3 – Grains on the Brain
- Nourishing Nursery Rhymes
- Worm Exploration
- JK-Grade 2 – Seed Viewer
- JK-Grade 3 – Make a Mud Pie
- Watering the Garden
- Creating Environmental Artwork
- Rainbow of Birds
Grade Three
- Grade 3-4 – Planting for a Spring Salad
- Seed Starting Workshop
- Grade 3-4 – Transplanting Workshop
- Grade 3-5 – Planning the Garden Workshop
- Grade 3-8 – Waste in Our Food System
- Herbalicious Poetry
- Grade 3-4 – Soil Exploration and Composting
- Dirt Dip Activity
- Science – Pollinators
- Grade 3-6 – Eat a Rainbow
- Grade 3-6 – Poetry in the Garden
- Identifying Trees Using Field Journals
Print-Outs
Garden curriculum
A series of 5 video and slide webinars to increase food literacy education in the classroom. Discussion includes teaching, growing, eating, and cooking to engage students for local food literacy education.
An organic gardener’s guide to planning your classroom curriculum around the garden. Divided into garden categories; soil, seeds, plants, flowers, and fruit.
An introduction to the FoodShare Field-to-Table toolkit series. See page 7 and onward for inspiration to introduce garden-based curriculum into your classroom. Tips for incorporating cooking and tasting demos for younger and older students.
A small template to build brand-new curriculum and introduce it to the classroom (could be applied to garden-based learning).
A short fact sheet to introduce the Farm to School movement at your school.
A guide and model for outdoor learning. An outdoor-play based education format and its benefits to Canadian children.