Indoor Gardening Activities

Don't have the time or the resources for a full outdoor garden? No problem. Try any of these indoor gardening ideas to whet your students' appetites.

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Fast Plants http://www.fastplants.org/

"To know a plant, grow a plant" is the motto of the Wisconsin Fast Plant Program, a science education outreach program from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Fast Plants are in the mustard family, are small, easy to grow, and affordable, and have an incredibly short life cycle of about 40 days. From the activities page, we recommend Growth and Development and The Population Explosion. MSP full record

Growing Classroom Herbs http://www.kidsgardening.org/Dig/digdetail.taf?Type=Art&id=841

Here, a teacher offers tips on herb gardening as well as specific student activity instructions. (This resource is from National Gardening: Kids Gardening.) MSP full record

Tulipmania – Growing Flowers to Share http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit165/lesson2.html

In this activity, students cultivate bulbs, and then practice philanthropy by giving the blooming plants to a community organization or persons of their choice. (This resource of part of the Learning to Give collection.) MSP full record

Eco-Containers http://www.kidsgardening.org/Dig/digdetail.taf?Type=Art&id=1108

In this recycling activity students make pots out of newspaper for their planting. (This resource is from National Gardening: Kids Gardening.) MSP full record

What. . . No Soil? http://www.kidsgardening.org/Dig/DigDetail.taf?ID=1056&Type=Art

This page gives the teacher valuable information on the basics of hydroponics, as well as some suggestions for classroom activities. (This resource is from National Gardening: Kids Gardening.) MSP full record

Farming in Space Introduction http://voyager.cet.edu/iss/activities/newfarming.html

This detailed lesson, correlated with a NASA experiment, provides instructional information for the teacher. It uses inexpensive materials and indicates how to obtain the less common materials. MSP full record

Agriculture in the Classroom http://www.agclassroom.org/index.htm

This link provides the history of agricultural technology in the United States and may serve as a starting point to student exploration of the role of technology in agriculture, the nature of the technology, and the related underlying science principles. MSP full record

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