First Grade

This collection of lesson plans are specifically curated for the School Garden Resources project. They are aligned with the Georgia Performance Standards.

Earth Science   Life Science   English & Language Arts   Math   Social Studies

Earth Science

Weather Patterns

• Changing Seasons and Changing Leaves
• Mini-Terrariums (pg 13, student pages 21-22) (PDF)
  
• Seasons and Weather
• Soil Temperature
• Water Pollution (PDF)
  
• Weather Round-up (pg 13, activity pages 20-21) (PDF)

Seasons

• Changing Seasons and Changing Leaves
• Seasonal Seed Study (and supplements):
  • Lesson 1b Seasonal Seed Study (PDF)
  • Weather Survey (PDF)
  • Warm Cool Weather Crop Chart (PDF)
• Seasons and Weather
• Spring Weather and Invertebrates (PDF)

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Life Science

Characteristics of Living Things

In the Garden:

• Bugs in the Garden (PDF)
• Camouflage (PDF)
• Garden Warm-up (PDF)
• Plant Part Salad (PDF)
• Planting, Growing, and Harvesting Garlic and Onions (PDF)
• Pollination (PDF)
• Potato (PDF)
• Pondering Plants (unit) (PDF)
• Spider Webs (PDF)
• Suga's Hard-working Pollinators (PDF)
• Eating Garden produce for a Healthy Body (PDF)

Garden Skills/Science:

• Amaryllis Race (PDF)
• Flower Dissection Investigation (PDF)
• Flower Pressing (PDF)
• Green Thumb and Dirty Fingernails
• Growing Pains
  
• Honey Bees
• Insects (PDF)
• The Mysterious Plant Caper: It Stems from This (pg 40) (PDF)
• The Mysterious Plant Caper: The Day the Celery Dyed (pg 42) (PDF)
• The Mysterious Plant Caper: An Airtight Case (pg 46) (PDF)
• The Mysterious Plant Caper: Witness This (pg 52) (PDF)
• The Mysterious Plant Caper: Which Way did it Grow? (pg 54) (PDF)
• The Mysterious Plant Caper: The Caper Papers (pg 73) (PDF)
• The Mysterious Plant Caper: Getting to the Root of It (pg 95) (PDF)
• What do Seeds Need? (PDF)

Basic Needs of Living Things

In the Garden:

• All About Worms
• Bulb Life Cycle (PDF)
• Butterfly (PDF)
• Garden Food Chains (PDF)
• Oh Deer (PDF)
• Plant Detectives
  • Lesson 4c Plant Detectives (PDF)
  • Weather Chart (PDF)
• Planting Food (PDF)
• Scavenger Hunt (PDF)
• Sun or Shade?
• Watering the Garden

Garden Skills/Science:

• Balloon Plants
• Bean (PDF)
• Bird Nest (PDF)
• How does your Garden Grow?
• Terrariums (PDF)
• The Mysterious Plant Caper (PDF)
• The Mysterious Plant Caper: Something Smells Fishy (pg 32) (PDF)
• The Mysterious Plant Caper: Leaving a Trail (pg 35) (PDF)
• The Mysterious Plant Caper: Water We Gonna Do? (pg 37) (PDF)
• The Mysterious Plant Caper: The Trail's Getting Cold (pg 48) (PDF)
• The Mysterious Plant Caper: We're Still in the Dark (pg 50) (PDF)
• The Mysterious Plant Caper: Suspicious Characters (pg 69) (PDF)
• What Plants Need to Grow

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English and Language Arts

Reading Literary

• Diary of a Plant (PDF)
• Seed to Table Sequence (PDF)
• Garden AR Books

Reading Informational

• Tiny Seed and Reasons for a Flower

Reading Foundational

• A Garden Plot (PDF)

Writing

• Appeal to the Meal
• Diary of a Plant (PDF)

Speaking and Listening

• Seed to Table Sequence (PDF)

Language

• A Garden Plot (PDF)

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Math

Sorting, Comparing, and Ordering

• Graphing Garden (PDF)
• Planting a Salad (PDF)
• Spider Web Hunt (PDF)

Shapes

• Designing Quilt Block Salad Gardens (PDF)

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

• Garden Menu Math (PDF)
• Philanthropy Market is Open Today
• Pumpkins in the Fall
• Soil Temperature
• Fiber Lesson Plan

Place Value

• Garden Menu Math (PDF)

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Social Studies

Civic

• George Washington Carver and Sharing
• Go, Johhny, Go!
• Johnny Be Good

Economic

• Appeal for the Meal
• Philanthropy Market is Open Today

Geographic

• Global Health: Hunger and Food Around the World

Historical

• Historical Spotlight (PDF)
  
• George Washington Carver, Master Gardener (PDF)
  
• George Washington Carver and the Sweet Potato

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