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Free lesson tool

Build your BYFP lesson plan
in about 5 minutes

Choose your grade, review your pre-loaded activities, and print a complete lesson plan with step-by-step instructions, timing, and materials. No gardening expertise required.

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How to use it

Build your plan, step by step

  1. 1Select your grade.
  2. 2Select your lesson duration.
  3. 3Choose a focus (science, nutrition or SEL), or keep it balanced.
  4. 4Check out the pre-loaded activities on the right.
  5. 5Add, remove or swap activities however you like.
  6. 6Repeat for each week, 1 through 4.
  7. 7When you're ready, hit Preview & Print to download your lesson plan.

…or honestly, just jump in and figure it out. It's that simple!

📌 One scheduling rule: your planting sessions (Weeks 1-3) and harvest (Week 4) must land on the same day of the week, 7 days apart, four weeks in a row. Everything else, all the science, nutrition and mindfulness activities, can go in any class period.
Before you teach

Two things to grab

A few of the optional activities use a student journal or a slide from the class deck. Download both once and you are set for the whole cycle.

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Student journal

Some optional activities have a journal component, students record observations, measurements and reflections. If you select those in the planner, print this journal for your class.

Download the journal ↓
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Class slide deck

Some activities list a slide number to project as you teach. Download the accompanying deck and open to the slide the planner calls out for each activity.

Download the slide deck ↓

Your printed lesson plan tells you exactly when a journal page or a slide number comes up, you never have to guess.

Ready when you are

Launch the planner, pick your grade, and print your first lesson in about five minutes.

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