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Mrs. Meyers Compassion Day Project
Mrs. Meyers Compassion Day Project! Mrs. Meyer’s believes that just like a flower, compassion can be grown—all it takes is planting the right seeds and some steady care. Using lessons from the garden, The Compassion Project seeks to help parents grow compassion...
Discover How Capillary Action Works with the Walking Water Experiment
Experiment:Discover How Capillary Action Works with the Walking Water Experiment Grades: K - 6 Students will learn about capillary action. Set up: 20 mins set-up; view results the next day Capillary action is at work in LGT gardens every day. Can you name three...
Why Pruning Basil Makes the Plant Bushy
Experiment: Why Pruning Basil Makes the Plant Bushy Grades: any The Little Green Thumbs teacher’s manual contains lots of reminders for you to prune basil plants. The natural growth of basil is tall and if not pruned, the plant will grow tall and leggy. Pruning causes...
Get Growing with Mrs. Meyer’s!
Get Growing with Mrs. Meyer's Compassion ProjectSign-up to receive a pack of Compassion Flower seeds, a 6-week lesson guide and student activity sheets. Mrs. Meyer’s believes that just like a flower, compassion can be grown—all it takes is planting the right seeds...
Recycled Plants
Experiment:Recycled Plants Grades: K - 6 Create your own plants at home while using items around the house! If you don’t have any seeds or soil, this is a perfect activity! Set up: 15-30 minutes The three R’s are reduce, reuse, recycle. Talk about what each of those...
Make A Plant Collage
Experiment: Make A Plant Collage Grades: K - 7 Plants are so much a part of our daily lives that we often don't give them much thought! In this project children will go through magazines and find items made from plants. Once these are found the children can...
Light and Air are Important to Plants
Experiment: Light and Air are Important to Plants Grades: K - 8 What happens when you block light from a plant? Cut various shapes in aluminum foil and attach shapes to the leaf of a plant using paper clips. Leave the plant for a week and see what happens! The...
Kitchen Scrap Gardening
Experiment: Kitchen Scrap Gardening Grades: K - 8 Your students can grow vegetables and herbs from items you'd normally throw in your compost bucket. With little effort and a pinch of creativity you can devise some very imaginative indoor gardens from your...
Transpiration
Experiment: Transpiration Grades: K - 8 Transpiration is the movement of water through a plant's system. The water journey starts in the roots which draws water from the soil. From there water moves up through the stems and into the leaves and flowers. Finally, water...