How Does Your Classroom Grow?

Eggshell Seed Starting Pots

http://www.pallensmith.com/index.php?id=1052 

Growing plants in your class brings health and learning benefits. Whether it is seedlings for a school garden or a ficus that will remain in you class for years like a friendly face, the daily involvment in tending, measuring, and appreciating the beauty of the process of growth for your students is greatly more than the slight cost of time and organization. Don't have a green thumb? I bet some of your students or parents do. You can involve STEM activities, art lessons, and even run a class science project to see if plants grow better with Mozart (they do. Kids do, too.) Maybe a teaching colleague would like to collaborate in a joint project for Earth Day.

15 houseplants for improving indoor air quality

http://www.mnn.com/health/healthy-spaces/photos/15-houseplants-for-improving-indoor-air-quality/a-breath-of-fresh-air

Here is a mind-boggling number of classroom plants to sort through! Teacher, you can surely find something suitable for your class here.

 classroom plants

https://www.pinterest.com/llogan2276/classroom-plants/ 

Let's Get Growing: Seed Starting Q & A

 http://www.kidsgardening.org/node/96821

Terrariums for Teachers and students 

http://www.stormthecastle.com/terrarium/teaching-terrarium.htm 

School Gardens

http://growing-minds.org/school-gardens/ 

How to Build a Straw Bale Garden

http://modernfarmer.com/2013/07/straw-bale-gardening/ 

REAL School Garden

http://www.realschoolgardens.org/ 

School Garden Checklist

http://www.letsmove.gov/school-garden-checklist 

Keyhole Gardening Tips

Keyhole Gardening Tips

Keyhole Gardening

http://www.hgtvgardens.com/raised-garden/keyhole-gardening-tips 

 

Welcome to School Garden Wizard

http://www.schoolgardenwizard.org/

Collective School Garden Network 

http://www.csgn.org/

School Garden Resource Center

https://www.wholekidsfoundation.org/resources/school-garden-resources/ 

This is a reprint from from my educational blog, 

MzTeachuh: How Does Your Classroom Grow? http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/02/how-does-your-classroom-grow.html