Butterfly Gardening Start Now

Crazy for Butterflies…and their favorite flowers?  Looking for fun, caring science lessons? Growing Green Hearts can help your elementary or preschool classrooms create a butterfly garden, play with STEM, and make science standards fun! The best time to start projects is fall/winter. Excitement builds through the seasons with seeds, design, then seedlings and planting in […]

Arbor Month is May

Trees. Trees. Trees. How will you celebrate Arbor Month this May…Eat an apple?  Climb a tree?  Plant a tree?  Enjoy the shade?  Here are ways for classrooms and families to show appreciation and care for trees. Get to know a tree that you often pass by.  Investigate the bark by getting a crayon rubbing , […]

Top 7 Hopeful Heart-full Science Storybooks for Kids

7 Stories of Role Models That Happen To Be Scientists Too! Just like heroes and heroines in our daily lives- some of the names on this list you’ll recognize, while some of the characters we’ll never fully know.  Whether you’re leading a classroom story time or bedtime, staff meeting or devotional- these books are fit […]

Favorite Science Storybooks- Living Things

Heidi’s Favorite Storybooks that Connect Earth’s Living Things “The Lorax” By Dr. Suess “My Little Book of Manatees” By Hope Irvin Marston, Illustrated By Stephanie Mirocha “The Snow Bear” By Miriam Moss, Illustrated Maggie Kneen “Mister Seahorse” by Eric Carle “The Mitten” By Jan Brett “Sea Turtle Journey:  The Story of a Loggerhead Sea Turtle” […]