Lesson Plan

The Secret Garden Lesson Plan: Middles Edition

Read Mary's garden chapters, test what seeds need, dissect an onion, and keep a garden journal.

This is the Middles Edition of The Secret Garden: one ready-to-teach week written just for grades 4-6. 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: What does a seed need to wake up and grow, and how does a locked garden come back to life?

The Week

• Mon: Green Points in the Grass (Reading) • Tue: How to Wake a Garden (Writing & Words) • Wed: What Wakes a Seed? (Science & Math) • Thu: Bulbs, Soil and a Plan (Hands-on Project) • Fri: A Garden Comes Alive (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 4-6 classrooms, co-ops and substitute plans.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for Middles (grades 4-6), about 60 to 90 minutes a day
• Lab sheet: What Wakes a Seed?
• Sequence cards (The Life Cycle of a Flowering Plant) and a cut-and-sort page (Seed, Bulb or Tuber?)
• Writing page: How to Wake a Garden
• Hands-on project: Plan Your Bit of Earth
• 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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