Lesson Plan

The Secret Garden Lesson Plan

Open the hidden door with Mary and the robin, then dig into real botany all week.

This five-day unit pairs Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden with hands-on plant science, with a ready-to-teach plan for Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8), for siblings or a mixed classroom. Littles hear the story, sprout beans in a bag and plant a cup garden. Middles test what wakes a seed, dissect an onion bulb, shake a soil jar and plan a garden to scale. Bigs run a salt and germination study, build a garden in a jar, and argue whether a garden can help people heal. Every level keeps a garden journal, like Mary and Dickon.

Perfect for homeschool families, multi-age classrooms, plant units and literature-based science.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for each of three levels
• Parts of a Flowering Plant label sheet with answer key
• Seed lab sheets and a garden journal page for every level
• Sequence cards, cut-and-sort pages and a writing page
• Word search, crossword or maze, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards, a book list and a certificate per level

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