Skip to main content

Agricultural Literacy Curriculum Matrix


Illinois Agriculture in the Classroom

Companion Resource

Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt

Up in the garden, the world is full of green—leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt there is a busy world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home. Discover the wonders that lie hidden between stalks, under the shade of leaves...and down in the dirt.

Author
Kate Messner
Lessons Associated with this Resource