Classroom Gardens

Growing a garden with your students can be a fun and rewarding task if your a teacher. The following article offers some tips for choosing the right plant for a project.

Classroom Gardens
Easy to grow = Happy children!!

Growing a garden with your students can be a fun and rewarding task for you and for the children. The importance to gardening with children is to keep their attention at all times. I know as a child if my outdoor experimental garden did not grow I was tremendously discouraged and gave up quickly. Children are like that, easily distracted and discouraged. They want to see results, often times faster than we can produce them. No matter how much you explain, this attitude will be the same for gardening.
That is why it is incredibly important to choose the right types of plants for your gardening project. There are plenty of plants out there that the children will be familiar with, and will also be very easy to grow. The easier to grow, the more involved the child will become. They will feel as though they have accomplished something, and you will feel the same. Just seeing the happiness on their faces when that first plump red tomato is picked from the vine.
In this article you will find a list of the best and easiest plants to grow with children.
Herbs. Different herbs are always great to grow with children. There are usually spices that children recognize from every day life, but they are probably unaware of where the spices come from or how they are grown. This is a great opportunity to grow different herbs that children may be familiar with. The smell will entice them, and often herbs are among the easiest plants to grow.
A few great herbs to grow are:
Thyme and Oregano. They will grow easily, as well as have a pleasing smell. The children will be able to relate them to foods they may have eaten, such as Italian foods with oregano in them. ...
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Author: Casey Nicholson



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