Online plant science enrichment · Ages 6–12

Growing Curious Minds, One Plant at a Time.

Explore the world of plants through an engaging, eight-week online enrichment adventure designed for curious young growers ages 6–12.

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8 weeksof prerecorded video lessons

Ages 6–12with two age-matched levels

English & Spanishvideo lessons, projects at home

Certificateof completion at the end

Why plant science

Gardening teaches more than gardening

Every lesson connects plants to the subjects kids already study, using real examples from our garden and nursery.

Science & observation

Kids form questions, run simple experiments, and watch what happens over days and weeks.

Math, reading & writing

Measuring growth, reading instructions, and recording observations build everyday skills.

Responsibility & enterprise

Caring for a living plant builds patience, and the final week introduces simple garden business ideas.

The eight-week adventure

A new plant topic every week

Week 1Introduction to Plants
Week 2How Plants Drink Water
Week 3Seeds and Germination
Week 4Soil and Plant Nutrition
Week 5Sunlight and Photosynthesis
Week 6Pollinators and Garden Ecosystems
Week 7Growing and Caring for Plants
Week 8Young Garden Entrepreneurs

Tomato plant with green tomatoes and orange marigolds in our raised garden bed — Tomatoes & marigolds

Fresh basil growing with orange and yellow lantana flowers in our garden — Basil

Feathery dill growing in our garden bed — Dill

Purple eggplants growing on the plant in our raised garden bed — Eggplant

Real plants from our own garden, the same ones kids learn about in the lessons.

See what each week covers

Free activity

Regrow green onions from kitchen scraps

A quick project to try this week. It's a stand-alone activity and isn't one of the 8 course lessons.

You'll need

Green onions with the white roots still on
A short glass or jar
Water

A grown-up does the cutting. Kids handle the watering and the daily check-ins.

Steps

Cut off the green tops, leaving about 2 inches of white with the roots.
Stand the pieces roots-down in the glass.
Add water to cover the roots, but not the tops.
Set the glass on a sunny windowsill and change the water every couple of days.
In about a week, new green shoots grow back.

En español

Todas las lecciones también en español

Junior Growers Academy es un programa de enriquecimiento en línea de 8 semanas sobre ciencia de las plantas para niños de 6 a 12 años. Cada lección tiene un video en inglés y otro en español, con actividades prácticas para hacer en casa.

Sample Junior Growers worksheet: The Thirsty Celery Experiment

Sample worksheet

Real worksheets for every week

Each lesson comes with a printable worksheet matched to your child's age. Younger growers draw and predict. Older growers form a hypothesis, measure, and record data.

Here's Week 2, "How Plants Drink Water," where kids watch colored water travel up a celery stalk.

See both worksheet levels

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