Integrating the school garden with school curriculum is key to a successful project. Here are some ideas to get you started. 
Agriculture & Environment Lesson Plans Summer Sustenance Soil Conservation - Compost and Water Quality and Wetlands Harvest and Evaluate the Garden Soil Conservation: Nutrient Management Knowing Nutrition for Meal Planning Shopping for the Meal (Supplement: Cheeto Creation flow chart)
Vocational Information Center. Links tolesson plans, classroom projects and teaching activities for: Agriculture, Aquaculture, Forestry, Animal Science, Environment, Food Science/Culinary Arts, Horticulture, Floriculture, and Landscaping.
BBC Resources for Teachers: Growing Plants
Lessons for children ages five to six meeting United Kingdom curriculum requirements
California School Garden Network
Getting to Know Your Garden: Basics - Bed & box Preparation, Tools & Equipment
Digging In: Soil, Weather, and Seasons
Seeds and Planting: Propagation, Germination, Transplanting
The Growing Plant: Botany, Reproduction, Pollination, and Life cycles
Garden Habitat: Critters, Beneficial Insects and Pest Control
Garden Stewardship: Watering, Weeding, Erosion, and Crop Maintenance
Harvest: Seed Saving, Food Storage and Processing
Composting: Recycling, Organic Gardening, and Soil Amendment
From Farm to Table: Food Systems at Work
Gifts From the Earth: Plant Based Crafts
Cooking and Eating for Healthy Living: Eat Well for Nutrition
Food Around the World: Origins, History, and Cultural Uses of Foods
CitySeed New Haven, Conn.
Three-part curriculum combines literacy, music, art, and hands-on activities for pre-schoolers to take home and share with parents and is complemented by the "Saturday at 2" program at the CT Children's Museum
Cornell Garden-Based Learning Cornell University
Activities, garden advice, citizen science projects and more.
Cultivating Community Portland, Maine
Arranged by season, the Earth Steward Gardener curriculum provides garden and food activities you can use-in every season and across every academic discipline-to help kids understand how we're all connected to the land, our communities, and each other.
Environmental Education Program
Grades 4-6 from Hewlett Packard and Scholastic
The Farmer Grows a Rainbow North Carolina Agriculture in the Classroom
These lessons introduce students to MyPyramid, the food guide developed by the United States Department of Agriculture. This kit educates students about making nutritious choices and the benefits of a healthy diet. The goal of "The Farmer Grows a Rainbow" is to enhance MyPyramid lessons, integrate them with traditional academic subjects and emphasize the vital role played by the farmer in food production.
Food Miles: Growing Local Food Connections Grades K-8
Produced by Falls Brook Centre
Educational activities to teach your students about the food they eat and where it comes from... This module aims to enlighten and inspire your students about where their food comes from, and the importance of a healthy diet. The program will aid to develop environmental citizenship and individual appeals to reduce food miles as a conscious contribution to long-term environmental health. It also aims to provide handson activities to explore simple, earth-and-people-friendly gardening practices.
Garden Activity Worksheets Children's Garden Network, University of Rhode Island, In-the-classroom ideas and worksheets to help teachers meet Life Science Grade Span Expectations.
Garden Mosaics Cornell University
Garden science, intergenerational learning, action learning, multicultural education
Gardens for Learning
Must-have resource for enhancing learning through gardens
How Does My Garden Grow? Writing in Science Field Journals by Devon Hamner
Science field journals have been in use for many, many years. In fact, Lewis and Clark were asked to keep a field journal by President Thomas Jefferson. Their journals included detailed observations of the land, plants, and animals they saw. This lesson plan invites students to observe and explore their environment in much the same way. Students work together to plant a garden and study its growth using the inquiry process of questioning and exploring. As they research and study, students record their observations in a field journal, to be shared with others—just like Lewis and Clark!
Junior Master Gardener: Level One: Grades 3-5; Level 2: Grades 6-8
Paper Towel Gardening easy seed template
Let It Grow: An Inquiry-Based Organic Gardening Research Project by Loraine Woodward
Struggling readers at the middle school level often become frustrated with research projects because of their low literacy skills. However, they are often very creative, kinesthetic learners and when a research project is scaffolded properly, are able to work independently, think critically, and accomplish a finished product they can feel proud of. This project motivates students to learn about organic gardening by developing their own research questions, conducting research, and gardening at their school. They then create signs about their plants and present their research to the class so that other students can learn about each plant.
Lettuce Begin - Growing Your Own Food Children's Garden Network
Easy-to-grow, tasty lettuce can inspire students to grow and eat something else.
Life Lab Science Programs
Science and environmental education curricula and programs
Linking State Standards to Your School Garden California
Live Insect Activities
The University of Arizona's Center for Insect Science has released 20 integrated science and math lessons for K–3 students that use live insects to introduce health topics and develop science process skills. In “Food to Grow On,” for example, students observe, predict, and record food consumption and growth of insects through experimentation with caterpillar diets and relate their findings to their own growth and diet. Information Sheets, Rearing Sheets, and a Bibliography are included.
Meeting Standards Naturally Environmental Education & Training Partnership
Helps K-12 educators promote academic excellence and environmental literacy. The program explores how teaching about the environment can be used to achieve national education standards for core disciplines such as math, science and social studies. It includes 43 sample K-12 classroom activities that demonstrate how environmental lessons can support specific grade level education standards
Monarch Sister Schools Program
An initiative to involve school children across North America in the protection and restoration of the habitat of the Monarch butterfly - Resource guide, workshops, eco-tours, online resources
National Environmental Educational Foundation School Garden Curricula
A wealth of lessons for students in grade K-4, 5-8 and 9-12 meeting state and National Science Education Standards.
Nature's Partners: Pollinators, Plants & You
Pollinator Curriculum - Grades 3-6; North American Pollinator Protection Campaign
Plant Life Cycles
by Educator Diana Maculan, for Grade 3
Project Learning Tree
Award-winning environmental education program for educators, parents and community leaders working with youth from preschool through 12th grade.
School Garden Curriculum Resources
Univ. of California Coop. Extension, LA County
Schoolyards as Classrooms Project: Alice Ferguson Foundation
Training and curriculum mapping support
The Garden School
Lessons on soil, introduction to plants, roots and leaves, and more!
WE Garden Lessons
A long time champion of edible school gardens, First Lady Maria Shriver spearheaded the planting of a garden on the grounds of California’s State Capitol Park in Sacramento. The garden teaches people of all ages lessons in nutrition, healthy living, agriculture, science, history and service. Lesson packets range from seed matching to bugs to reading roots. Includes activities, teacher supplements, planting plans and more!
**NEW** Busy Bees: Investigating the Pollination Cycle
What's Growin' On? Your Link to California Agriculture
Aligned to content standards for grades 3-8
My Own Food Chain: Grades K-2 Liberty Prairie Conservancy Grayslake, Ill.
Food Chain Introduction
The Edible Garden: Grades 6-8 Liberty Prairie Conservancy Grayslake, Ill.
Harvesting the Garden
Alternative Marketing
Project Pumpkin: Grades 3-5 Liberty Prairie Conservancy Grayslake, Ill.
Nutrient Management, Part 1
Supplemental Materials: Compostia and Farmopoly
