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)

A ten page booklet for early readers illustrating the steps of creating and using compost.
Early Reader: Composting is Fun (color) (primary)

A ten page booklet illustrating the steps of making and using compost.
Bar Graph: Farmer's Market Items

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.
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.
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.
Spelling: Gardens (primary)

Studying gardens? Learn vocabulary with this fun set: a word search, cloze exercise, and more. From "crop" to "watering".
Rebus: Sally's Garden (b/w)

with words under the pictures
Worksheet: Jenny's Garden (elem/upper elem)

"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.