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What Growing Carnivorous Plants Taught Me About Life - Liana Vibes

Carnivorous Plants Teaches Us Patience ... These plants have developed sinister and attractive ways to lure, capture, and eat their prey. They ...

Life Lessons I Learned from Trees - Gardenuity - THE SAGE

Throughout, I've been constantly impressed with the number of lessons we can learn from trees: grow towards the light, grow deep before you grow tall, learn to ...

Lessons Learned from My Favorite Houseplants

The plants that are most important and special to me have been with me a long time, and they have special memories attached. Plants are amazing, ...

Life Lessons from the Dandelion: A Journey of Resilience and Hope

This humble plant teaches us a vital lesson: in life, as with dandelions, our perspective shapes our reality. Embrace the weed that makes wishes come true.

What Do Plants Need to Survive? - Poet Prints Teaching

In my living room I have a single IKEA potted plant that, by some miracle, has survived over the years. But it's the only plant I've been able ...

What do plants eat? - Mystery Science

In this lesson, students discover the surprising nutrient which accounts for most of a plant's food. In the activity, Weighing Air, students blow up ...

Book review – Lessons from Plants | The Inquisitive Biologist

Revealing the surprising abilities of plants, Lessons from Plants is a neat little book that asks what life lessons we can draw from their ...

10 Life Lessons from the Garden - Thrive Global

In the garden, the plants grow on their own timetable. We can't speed them up or slow them down. Mother nature is running the show. The poet May ...

Why People Need Plants | National Agriculture in the Classroom

Ask students to list three items you use every day. · Trace each of those items back to a plant by drawing a picture. · In this lesson students will learn the ...

15 Tips for Creating an Amazing Classroom Garden - Bored Teachers

Provide each student with a plant that has roots already starting to grow. You can either gently pull up already growing plants or start new ...

Secrets To Surviving: Lessons From Carnivorous Plants

Carnivorous plants remind us that there's more than one route we can take to succeed in life! ... These green carnivores evolved their weird and ...

50 Fun Facts About Trees to Share With Your Elementary Students + ...

The teacher team at Teach Starter compiled a list of fascinating leafy facts you ... the impact that has had on our modern lives. Have ...

Plants Science Experiments & Teaching How Plants Grow

I love doing plant experiments and sprouting seeds with young children in the spring. Not only do they get excited to see how plants grow but planting seeds ...

Lessons We Learn from Our Plants: Patience in Growth | JOMO Studio

Owning houseplants can be an incredibly rewarding pastime, but it does require some element of patience from us. Plants force us to slow ...

Tiny Seeds Teach Kids Giant Life Lessons - Tinkergarten

In fact, it's a great lesson about life. It may also be a reminder to you, and even to your wee ones, that every plant we see around us has a ...

6 Profound Lessons We Can Learn From Trees - Teacher's Day ...

This may seem like an unexpected association, but similar to our teachers, these silent sentinels of nature have much to teach us about ...

Gardening with Kids: Life Lessons from the Garden

How many times have you heard someone say, “I grew up on a farm, and *this* was the lesson I learned”? It seems like all those great stories happened on the ...

5 Life Lessons from My Garden - Hip Homeschool Moms

In truth, gardening has helped me learn that everything that grows in nature (from plants to people) requires some of the same basic principals of care. In ...

Lessons We Can Learn From Succulents - Waterwise Botanicals

Soooo…I plant a lot of Perennials because they seem to attract Butterflies. We could get scientific and look up what the experts say, but I ...

From Seed to Surprise: The Magic of Plant Gifts for Kids and Families

Nurturing curiosity, fostering a love for nature, and teaching valuable life lessons - these are just a few of the wonders that can be achieved through the gift ...