Garden Growers: A Lesson for Every Season

This curriculum is part of the Collaboration for Early Childhood’s Growing Gardener Program. It is free and available for anyone to use. Please share with early childhood educators that you think would be interested in using it with their young learners. Click on a tile below to open the full curriculum in an online PDF with hyperlinks to read alouds and other materials. For lesson 1, 2, and 3, there are supplemental materials that you can use with the lesson:

Lesson 1: All Creatures Need

Lesson 2: Indoor Sow & Grow

Lesson 3: Celebrate & Wait

Lesson 4: Provide and Protect

Lesson 5: Everyone Loves a Flower

Lesson 6: Tasting Together

Lesson 7: Seeds Everywhere

Lesson 8: Outdoor Sow & Grow

Lesson 9: Put the Garden to Bed

Lesson 10: Squiggly Worms

Lesson 11: Critters in the Compost

Lesson 12: Planning for Plants

Lesson 13: Planting a Butterfly Garden

Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge a few of the people who made these lessons engaging, colorful, and welcoming for our young learners.

Lessons by Wendy Negron and Heather Duncan.
Edited by Melissa Velez.
Layout and design by Sandy Lang.
Illustrations by Amy Huntington.

The Growing Gardeners Program and the Garden Growers Curriculum is made possible by a grant from the Albrecht Poss Family Foundation.