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Whistle While You Work Gardening
Guide To Edible Plants

The United States Department of Agriculture is offering these interactive and exploratory lessons as a creative way to connect gardens with nutrition messages in the classroom, cafeteria or lunch room, and at home. Whether your garden is large or small and your growing season is long or short, these materials can help you:

• Change how children think and feel about fruits and vegetables.
• Foster an awareness of where foods come from.
• Get kids’ attention with colorful visuals, games, and activities that are age-appropriate and fun.
• Integrate gardening and nutrition into English Language Arts, Math, Science, and Health lessons.
• Provide nutrition messages that are consistent with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010.

For Use with Preschoolers

• Grow It, Try It, Like It!
  Preschool Fun with Fruits and Vegetables

For Use with Elementary School Age Children

• The Great Garden Detective Adventure (Grades 3-4)
• Dig In! (Grades 5-6)