Cavender’s Agricultural Career Guide

This resource can stand alone to compliment your curriculum or compliment our Grow a Seed Program

Designed for: Grades K-12
Learning Styles: Independent (student resource)
Resource Type: External Link

An Agricultural Career Guide: Jobs, Skills, and Resources Agriculture is the backbone of the United States and essential to keeping this country going. In addition to producing the food Americans need to survive, 10.5% of U.S. employment is related to agriculture and food production. This means that, as one of the hardworking few that feed the many, […]

Seed Your Future’s Plant Mash-Up Contest

Designed for: Grades K-12
Learning Styles: Interactive (hands-on)
Resource Type: Document, External Link

Seed Your Future created the Plant Mash-Up contest to inspire and educate students about the power of plants. Through this activity, students will think strategically as they imagine, describe and draw. They combine two plants based on their properties to create an imaginative hybrid plant to solve an issue in their community. The contest gives […]

Innovate Lesson Plan (Grades 1-2)

This Resource is part of the Innovate Program

Designed for: Grades K-5
For use by: Students, Teachers.
Learning Styles: Interactive (hands-on), Classroom based
Resource Type: Lesson Plan

Using NGSS Standard 1-LS1-2, this Lesson is designed for grades 1 and 2. Students read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.

Innovate Lesson Plan (Grades 3-5)

This Resource is part of the Innovate Program

Designed for: Grades K-5
For use by: Students, Teachers.
Learning Styles: Interactive (hands-on), Classroom based
Resource Type: Lesson Plan

One of three lesson plans in our Innovate Program about Plant Breeding and Gene Editing. Using NGSS Standard 3-LS3-2, this Lesson is designed for grades 3, 4 and 5. Students will use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment. Objective: Students will investigate environmental factors that influence plant traits. […]

Innovate Lesson Plan (Grades 6-8)

This Resource is part of the Innovate Program

Designed for: Grades 6-8
For use by: Students, Teachers.
Learning Styles: Interactive (hands-on), Classroom based
Resource Type: Lesson Plan

One of three lesson plans in our Innovate Program about Plant Breeding and Gene Editing. Using NGSS Standard MS-LS4-5, this lesson is designed for grades 6, 7 and 8. Students will gather and synthesize information about technologies that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms. Objective: Students will be […]

Connecting the Garden to the Classroom

This Resource is part of the School Garden Grant Program

Designed for: Grades K-12
For use by: Students, Teachers, Parents.
Learning Styles: Interactive (hands-on), Classroom based
Resource Type: External Link

Here are some specific ideas for ways to use your garden as a multidisciplinary teaching tool.

Sustaining Your Program

This Resource is part of the School Garden Grant Program

Designed for: Grades K-12
For use by: Students, Teachers, Parents.
Learning Styles: Interactive (hands-on), Classroom based
Resource Type: External Link

School gardens are a significant investment of time, energy, and resources, so you want them to last beyond one growing season!  

Growing Guides

This resource can stand alone to compliment your curriculum or compliment our School Garden Grant Program

Designed for: Grades K-12
Learning Styles:
Resource Type: External Link, Guide

In-depth advice from site selection to harvesting, including all the steps in between, plus fun facts about each plant.

Indoor Seed Starting Q&A

This resource can stand alone to compliment your curriculum or compliment our School Garden Grant Program

Designed for: Grades K-12
Learning Styles: Independent (student resource), Classroom based
Resource Type: Document, External Link

Find answers to commonly asked questions about starting plants from seed indoors.

When to Plant Seeds

This resource can stand alone to compliment your curriculum or compliment our School Garden Grant Program

Designed for: Grades K-12
Learning Styles: Interactive (hands-on), Classroom based
Resource Type: External Link

Correct timing of both indoor seed sowing and outdoor seeding and transplanting is a crucial part of growing healthy plants. Here are some guidelines for sowing and planting.