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Online Class: Garden With A Child

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Basic Course: $20.00
with Certificate & CEUs: $45.00
Gardening is a great hobby. It provides exercise, the feeling of accomplishment that you can grow your own food, more nutrients in the food you eat, learning about the environment, and so much more! Now magnify that by the fact that children love these things and love digging in the dirt too! Children also 'work' through their play, and their learning comes from having fun. Gardens are a wonderful place to teach our children. In this course, you will teach your child soil composition, choosing plants they will use, plant care, planting instructions and even when to harvest. Incorporated into these lessons are curriculum standard requirements in the various subjects. Come learn while you have fun with the activities both off and online. Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish. An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course completions.

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Continuing Education Units (CEU)
1.0 CEUs

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Spring is here, and we are getting ready to start our little plant factories. This is the perfect time to start this course! You will find that Gardening is a great hobby. Exercise, accomplishment that you can grow your own food, more nutrients in the food you eat, learning about the environment, and so much more! Now magnify that by the fact that children love these things and love digging in the dirt too! Children also 'work' through their play, and their learning comes from having fun. Gardens are a wonderful place to teach our children. In this course, you will teach your child about the environment, soil composition, choosing the plants they will use, plant care, planting instructions and even when to harvest. Incorporated into these lessons are all curriculum standard requirements in the various subjects, with special grammar lessons included. Come learn while you have fun with the activities both off and online. Make a difference in your world while planting your garden with your child. Come plant your garden with us!

HURRY! Limited time offer! To promote better health and education, we are offering this course with the added curriculum of Plant Basics! PLUS-We are reducing the price of the course an additional two dollars. Please join now, so you can plant an early garden.


Garden With A Child is taught by enthusiastic instructor Jill Manzoni. By completing each step in this course, you will plant your garden. Along the way you will be learning the needs of each plant you choose, and gain the working knowledge it takes to insure success and large harvests of nutrient rich foods. You will teach your child and yourself, soil composition, correct plant choice, plant care, planting instructions and when and how to harvest.

Incorporated into these lessons are elementary curriculum standard requirements in the various subjects. The class is suitable for a homeschooling unit study or for teachers and parents looking for a clear resource on planting gardens with children.

All assignments and tests have between 5 and 50 allotted points for each correct answer. Upon completion of each, your accumulated points will go towards your final score. Students who complete the course are eligible for various certificates. Come learn while you have fun with the activities both off and online.


This course offers 1.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.

Course Lessons

  1. Lesson 1 Explore the basic needs of plants - Gardens provide many opportunities to explore the basic needs, structures, and life cycles of plants, and in a relevant context with a child's own life. Learn the secrets to getting kids interested, involved, and excited about gardening.
  2. Lesson 2 Learn your planting zone - Your Planting Zone-When To Start-What to Start With
  3. Lesson 3 Seeds vs Starter plants - What are the best plants to grow from Seed.
  4. Lesson 4 Safety in the Garden - There are many factors to staying safe. Learn them here.
  5. Lesson 5 Feeding Plants - What do you feed a plant, and how much?
  6. Lesson 6 Getting ready to plant - Here are steps that you should take to prepare in planting.
  7. Lesson 7 The work that does wonders. - Weeding, cultivation, watering mulching and more.
  8. Lesson 8 Birds - Birds are Important to our Gardens. Let us make them a wonderful habitat.
  9. Lesson 9 Worms - Worms can help your garden more then you know.
  10. Lesson 10 Tomatoes, Lettuce, Radish, Parsley - Review the vegetables that are common (class wide) that we will be planting. Focus on Tomatoes, Lettuce, Radish, and Parsley. Learn Botanical Family names, Soil composition, spacing, planting, when to harvest and lots more.
  11. Lesson 11 Plant placement - Don't shade shorter plants. Plant according to the sun's position in the sky.
  12. Clip Art Garden - Make it on paper first.
  13. Companion Gardening - Some plants just don't do well with others.
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Optional Certificates Awarded

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  2. Certificate of Class Participation
  3. Certificate of Outstanding Achievement
  4. Certificate of Academic Excellence

Certificates awarded by the instructor will vary and are based upon student merit. Any awards you earn are considered unofficial (or temporary) unless you decide to make the award official. To make an award official, there is a $30.00 processing fee that covers the customization, printing, and shipping of a hard copy of the certificate as well as access to the UniversalClass™ Transcript Service. Official awards include a serial number that verifies the authenticity of the award you earned for a lifetime (great for employers to verify your achievement).

Additional Information

Course Title : Garden With A Child
CEU Value : (Continuing Education Units)
Course Number : 3100
Course Type : Professional Development
Course URL : http://childsgarden.onlineclasses.com
Course Review : Reviewed & Approved on March 11, 2002
Instructor : Jill Manzoni
Syllabus : View Syllabus
Duration : Continuous: Enroll anytime!
Course Fee :
Basic Course: $25.00 - Limited Time Offer: $20.00
with CEUs & Certificate: $45.00
NOT FOR COLLEGE CREDIT
This is a non-credit course. This course may not fulfill any local, state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.
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