Don't let cold weather interrupt your classroom gardening activities! Use GrowLab light gardens to bring the garden inside to grow a winter crop of vegetables and ornamentals.

GrowLab is a National Science Foundation-funded, K-8 plant-based instructional program that invites educators to use plants as a springboard for investigative, student-centered learning. In GrowLab classrooms, indoor and outdoor gardens become living laboratories for active inquiry, where teachers prompt students to question, experiment, and construct their own understanding of the world around them.

The centerpiece of the program is the K-8 curriculum guide, GrowLab: Activities for Growing Minds. The horticultural guide, GrowLab: A Complete Guide to Gardening in the Classroom, provides further guidance and inspiration for using plants to enrich classroom learning. The GrowLab curriculum reflects the vision articulated and correlates with objectives included in the National Science Education Standards. Students become scientifically literate by actively engaging in meaningful inquires of the natural world.

View sample activities:

Why Root for Roots?
Journey to the Center of a Seed