Garden Theme Units

These Garden Theme Units are great for any classroom. Engage your students with these Garden Theme Units. Members receive unlimited access to 49,000+ cross-curricular educational resources, including interactive activities, clipart, and abctools custom worksheet generators. These Garden Theme Units are great for teachers, homeschoolers and parents.

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Fiction: Patricia's Garden (upper elem/ middle)

A realistic fiction story about a woman working in her hot summer garden. This reading comprehension features thoughtful short answer questions.
Word Wall: Flowers

[member-created with abctools] From "aster" to "zinnia". These vocabulary building word strips are great for word walls. Enhances Lois Ehlert's book, "Planting a Rainbow".
Project: Gardening Journal Project Planner

Explains why gardening is a good educational project and how to set up a successful project. This idea is great for homeschoolers! Illustrated pages for journal entries are available to abcteach members.
Puzzle: Soil Food Web (elem/upper elem)

A puzzle, created from abcteach's Soil-Food Web, that helps students understand the relationship of soil, soil nutrients, microbes and food.
How To: Make Your Own Dirt - Creating Compost (upper elem/middle)

One page set of directions for creating compost, plus two pages of information on the types of composting systems, followed by a set of functional text questions.
Lapbook: Composting (primary/elem)

An eight page set of illustrated templates for creating a lap book on composting, with templates for pockets, flip books, match books, flash cards and more. A great Earth Day project.
Early Reader: Composting is Fun (b/w) (primary)

This Early Reader: Composting is Fun (b/w) (primary) clipart is great to illustrate your teaching materials. As an abcteach member you have unlimited access to our 22,000+ clipart illustrations and can use them for commercial use. This Early Reader: Composting is Fun (b/w) (primary) clipart is provided in jpeg format.
Early Reader: Composting is Fun (color) (primary)

This Early Reader: Composting is Fun (color) (primary) clipart is great to illustrate your teaching materials. As an abcteach member you have unlimited access to our 22,000+ clipart illustrations and can use them for commercial use. This Early Reader: Composting is Fun (color) (primary) clipart is provided in jpeg format.
Farmer's Market Items Bar Graph

This Farmer's Market Items Bar Graph is perfect to practice graphing skills. Your elementary grade students will love this Farmer's Market Items Bar Graph. Complete the graph by interpreting the chart and answering the questions. Based on items sold at the Farmer's Market.
Fiction: Jim's Favorite Store (elem/upper elem)

"Jim�s Favorite Store" realistic fiction (1 page) followed by 4 multiple choice questions and 5 short written response questions.
Maze: Garden

Guide the bee through the flowers.
Word Search: Flowers

Find the flower-theme words from "Black-eyed Susan" to "sunflowers" in this rectangular word search.
Fiction: Dana's Flower Garden (elementary)

"Dana loves flowers." This realistic fiction story includes a lot of flower facts, including the difference between annuals and perinneals.
The Nicest Yard (middle school) Writing Prompt

Use this 'Writing Prompt: The Nicest Yard (middle school)' printable worksheet in the classroom or at home. Your students will love this 'Writing Prompt: The Nicest Yard (middle school)'. "Tell in detail what you would have to do to have the nicest yard in the neighborhood." Advanced intermediate/middle school level.
Sally's Garden (full color) Rebus

Use this 'Rebus: Sally's Garden (full color)' printable worksheet in the classroom or at home. Your students will love this 'Rebus: Sally's Garden (full color)'. with words under the pictures
Word Wall: Gardening

From "corn" to "zucchini", these vocabulary building word strips with pictures are great for word walls, sentence strips, spelling and vocabulary practice.
Gardens (primary) Spelling

Use this 'Spelling: Gardens (primary)' printable worksheet in the classroom or at home. Your students will love this 'Spelling: Gardens (primary)'. Studying gardens? Learn vocabulary with this fun set: a word search, cloze exercise, and more. From "crop" to "watering".
Sally's Garden (b/w) Rebus

Use this 'Rebus: Sally's Garden (b/w)' printable worksheet in the classroom or at home. Your students will love this 'Rebus: Sally's Garden (b/w)'. with words under the pictures
Jenny's Garden (elem/upper elem) Worksheet

This Jenny's Garden (elem/upper elem) Worksheet is perfect to practice problem solving skills. Your elementary grade students will love this Jenny's Garden (elem/upper elem) Worksheet. "Here is a table of what Jenny planted in the new flower garden. Read the table and answer the questions."
ABC Sort: Gardening Vocabulary

[Made with abctools] 20 words, from ANNUAL to TRANSPLANT
Circle & Spell: Gardening Vocabulary

[Made with abctools] Circle the correct spellings of the 20 gardening-related words, from ANNUAL to TRANSPLANT
Crossword: Gardening Vocabulary

[made with abctools] 3 ACROSS: Thirsty plants need this
Missing Letters: Gardening Vocabulary

[Created with abctools] Fill in the missing letters for these 20 gardening-related words, from ANNUAL to TRANSPLANT.
Spelling List: Gardening Vocabulary

[Created with abctools] A list of 20 gardening-related words, from ANNUAL to TRANSPLANT, to use as a spelling lesson.
Word Search: Gardening Vocabulary

[member-created with abctools] Find the words, from ANNUAL to TRANSPLANT, in this flower-shaped puzzle.
Unscramble the Words: Gardening Vocabulary

[created with abctools] 20 words, from ANNUAL to TRANSPLANT
Word Wall: Gardening Vocabulary

[created with abctools] 20 words, from ANNUAL to TRANSPLANT
Project: Gardening Journal - Plot the Garden

Pages for creating a record of a newly planted garden, so that plants will be easy to identify as they grow. Helps with mapping skills.
Project: Gardening Journal Set (b/w)

Simple black-and-white pages for: project cover, planting records, journal entry, field trip report.
Project: Gardening Journal - Cover

Ivy-bordered journal cover for gardening project.
Project: Gardening Journal - Field Trip Report

Ivy-bordered page for field trip notes for a gardening journal project.
Project: Gardening Journal - Field Notes

Ivy-bordered page for recording field notes ("Today in the garden...")during a gardening project.
Project: Gardening Journal - Planting Record

Ivy-bordered page for recording information about planting in a gardening journal project.
Project: Gardening Journal Set (color)

Ivy-bordered pages for: project cover, planting record, journal entry, field trip report.
Shapebook: My Garden (k-1/primary)

An easy booklet shaped like a tulip that tells how to plant and grow a seed to become a plant.
Word Wall: Garden Words on Flowers (easy) (k-1)

Easy garden related words on flower shape.
Word Wall: Garden Words on Flowers (hard) (k-1/elem)

Word wall on flower shape of hard garden related words.
Word Search: Garden Words on Tulip (easy) (k-1/elem)

Easy garden words in a word search puzzle shaped like a tulip.
Word Search: Gardening Words Planter Shape (hard) (upper elem/middle school)

Hard word search puzzle in shape of a plant/planter using gardening words.
Word Search: Gardening Words Planter Shape (elem)

Word search puzzle in plant and planter shape with gardening word bank and answer key.