This clever nature curriculum lets you teach math, science,  literacy, and art just by growing sunflowers!

This is the perfect curriculum for children who love nature, gardening and being outdoors. It shows you how to teach math, science, literacy, nature study, and practical skills all while growing beautiful sunflowers

You’ll have six ready-made teaching units full of sunflower-themed lessons and activities that you can use from spring through to early autumn, year after year.

Lessons include learning about seeds, germination, the parts of a plant, bees and pollination, shapes, symmetry, graphing and measurement along with beautiful art and craft projects and nature journaling.

With 28 engaging activities and 30 pages of bonus printables that will make your teaching so easy, this is the perfect resource for families, schools and gardening clubs.

For children aged 4 – 10.

Written by Cathy James, B.A. (Hons), the author of The Garden Classroom.

What’s in The Seasons School Sunflower School Curriculum?

• Six ready-made teaching units you can use from spring to early autumn to teach a program math, science, literacy, arts and crafts, and nature study
• Hands-on activities to accompany growing sunflowers so your children will be engaged, enthusiastic and learning!
• For use in class, homeschool or in community groups
• 28 activities and lesson plans with full colour photos, material lists and 30 pages of bonus printables to make it so easy for you to teach
• For ages 4 – 10

See more details here or go ahead and buy the book now.

You can buy just The Sunflower Unit for $19.99 or save over $90 and get a program for the whole year when you buy the Seasons School Complete Year bundle. Our seasonal best-seller, the Seasons School Complete Year bundle gives you a nature-based curriculum for every season: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter at the discount combined price of  $182.86 $89 = you save over $90!

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What’s in each of the sunflower units?

Each unit can be used as a stand-alone topic or you can run them sequentially, from spring planting to early autumn harvesting, for a complete curriculum. Dip in and out or teach everything – it’s up to you. You can print as many copies of the printables as you need for your children, year after year, making this such a good value resource.

Full instructions, material lists, colour photos, and extension/variation ideas make everything easy to teach and adapt to your needs.

Here’s what’s in each unit of the sunflower nature curriculum:

Planting and measuring

• How to grow sunflowers with children
• Sunflower seed growing lesson
• Key vocabulary
• Charting your seeds’ progress math and science activity
• Graphing your results
• The parts of a sunflower plant science lesson
• How to make a sunflower height chart
• My Sunflower Journal writing project
• Sunflower number mats for math activities
• Seed labels and sunflower stickers

Bees and Pollination

• Learning about bees lesson
• What kinds of bees are there?
• What do bees look like?
• Do bees sting?
• The waggle dance!
• How do bees make honey?
• What is pollination?
• How can we help bees?
• Bumble bee craft
• Visual thinking strategies art and speaking lesson
• Who lives in our garden? investigation
• Bee alphabet activities
• Bee number activities
• Bee handwriting and scissor-skills activities

Words, Books, and Poems

• Sunflower poem writing lesson
• Sunflower books reading list
• Sunflower word mats for literacy activities

Sunflower Art

• Handprint sunflower craft project
• Watercolour sunflowers art project
• Scratch art sunflowers art project
• Sand sunflowers sensory art activity
• Sunflower art project inspired by Vincent Van Gogh and Georgia O’Keeffe

Shape and Symmetry

• Shapes and symmetry in nature lesson
• What shape is a sunflower?
• How big is a sunflower?
• Sunflower circles: diameter and circumference
• Measuring with standard and non-standard units
• Exploring symmetry in plants
• Lateral symmetry
• Radial symmetry

Seeds and Sustainability

• Sustainability lesson: How to harvest sunflower seeds
• Seed envelopes
• School fundraising ideas
• Sunflower seed investigation and sensory play
• How to make a mason bee house
• Sunflower seed oatmeal cookies recipe
• Sunflower seed crackers recipe

What bonus printables are included?

You can print as many copies of the printables as you need for your children, year after year, making this whole kit such great value for money. Bonus printables include:

• “My Sunflower Journal” printable
• Lined, plain, and half-and-half journal pages
• Sunflower poems printable
• Sunflower sticker sheet
• Printable plant labels
• Sunflower counting mat
• Sunflower addition mat
• Sunflower subtraction mat
• Sunflower word mats
• Bee number cards
• Bee writing and scissor skills pages
• Garden Creatures page
• Honeycomb alphabet
• Printable seed packets

You can buy just The Sunflower Unit for $19.99 or save over $90 and get a program for the whole year when you buy the Seasons School Complete Year bundle. Our seasonal best-seller, the Seasons School Complete Year bundle gives you a nature-based curriculum for every season: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter at the discount combined price of  $182.86 $89 = you save over $90!

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Available for instant download

This product is an ebook (electronic book), which means you will be sent a link by email which allows you to download the ebook and all the resources. You should save the ebook file to your computer or iPad and then either read it on screen or print some/all of the pages, as you prefer.

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