Lesson Plan

The Secret Garden Lesson Plan: Bigs Edition

Read Burnett closely, run a germination study, dissect a bulb, and argue for gardens.

This is the Bigs Edition of The Secret Garden: one ready-to-teach week written just for grades 7-8. Every day follows the same rhythm: Reading on Monday, Writing and Words on Tuesday, Science and Math on Wednesday, a Hands-on Project on Thursday, and Show and Tell on Friday.

The big question: How does a plant turn a seed, soil, water and light into new life, and why does a garden change Mary and Colin?

The Week

• Mon: A Garden Wakes Up (Reading) • Tue: Can a Garden Heal? (Writing & Words) • Wed: Salt and Seeds (Science & Math) • Thu: Inside a Bulb (Hands-on Project) • Fri: The Case for Gardens (Show & Tell)

Teaching more than one level? The all-levels edition of The Secret Garden has Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8) in one file, so siblings or a mixed classroom can study the same topic together.

Perfect for homeschool families, grade 7-8 classrooms, co-ops and substitute plans.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for Bigs (grades 7-8), about 90 to 120 minutes a day
• Lab sheet: Salt and Seeds
• Sequence cards (From Seed to Seed) and a cut-and-sort page (Root, Stem or Leaf?)
• Writing page: Can a Garden Heal?
• Hands-on project: A Garden in a Jar
• Word search, crossword, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards and a book list of 4 titles
• A certificate and an answer key for the grown-up

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