Garden Lessons: Garden Scavenger Hunt (Grades 2nd-3rd)

Grades: 2nd-3rd

Lesson Objective(s): Students practice reading skills, teamwork, and problem solving using a scavenger hunt worksheet.

Supplies Needed

• Garden Scavenger Hunt Worksheet (1 for every 4-5 students)

• Clipboards

• Pencils

• Harmonica

Introduction (5 mins):

• Welcome everyone to garden: introduce self again

• Quickly review what we did last week: You have rules in your classroom! When we saw you last, we talked about some rules we have the garden. Raise your hand if you can think of a rule we have in the garden (take 3-4 hands)

Activity (20 mins)

• Explain instructions: We’re doing a scavenger hunt today!

  • Quickly review- use walking feet, follow directions of grown-up helper, not picking anything w/o permission, etc.

  • Once you find & answer a square, your group can put a sticker on it

  • When finished, go to picnic table to get snack

• pair up students in small groups with 1 grown-up helper for each group

• Students do scavenger hunt!

• Once they finish scavenger hunt, they go to the picnic table to get a snack

• Get back in big group- review answers

Garden Activity

• If time at end: water garden, pot up lettuce, or plant seeds
  

Wrap up:

• Gather in group

• ask about what they saw in the garden today