Younger children may enjoy dragging plant stickers onto the grid to make an appealing design. Social Studies Theme gardens are a great deal of fun, and they can help teach kids about different cultures and time periods. Choose a region or time period that intrigues your child, then research the plants cultivated in that time and place. If possible, use some of these plants to create your own theme garden. The United States has 11 different growing zones.
Different plants flourish in different zones.
If you like, you can actually buy the seeds to mail as a gift. Invite your child to write or dictate a letter explaining how the seeds were chosen. Talk about what makes the growing zones different. The web-page version was created by R. Timothy Smith , an Academic Specialist with the Department of Teacher Education in the College of Education at Michigan State University .