This 4-part curriculum series takes youth from planning and planting to harvesting, storing, preserving, and selling.
Audience: Grades 3-12
- Gardening Level A: See Them Sprout—Introduces basic plant science, garden friends and foes, tool safety, using the vegetable harvest, and horticulture-related careers. (Grades 3-4)
- Gardening Level B: Let’s Get Growing—Introduces integrated pest management. Science topics include plant families, how plants respond to light, and how to grow new plants from plant parts. (Grades 5-6)
- Gardening Level C: Take Your Pick—Explore photosynthesis, hybrid vs. standard forms, herb gardening and preservation, plant companions, storing and saving seeds, how to identify and prevent weeds, insect damage, and animal pests. (Grades 7-9)
- Gardening Level D: Growing Profits—Study plant genetics, plant diversity, plants in space, integrated pest management, and summarizes horticulture-related careers. (Grades 10-12)
- Gardening Curriculum: Helper’s Guide—Accompanies all levels of the Gardening curriculum.
