Plant Connections Leader's Guide

Janice Easton and Deborah J. Glauer


The Kids Growing with Plant Connections Leader's Guide (4H192/4H PSL 21) is aimed at educating youth about the basics of horticulture. Youth will be exposed to information on plants and the plant kingdom.

Lessons include the following:

  • What Is a Plant?

  • Why Are Plants Important?

  • What Makes Plants Grow?

  • How to Grow Plants

  • How to Select and Handle Plants

The Plant Connections Youth Workbook (4H194/4H PSM 11) is used inconjunction with this leader's guide.

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Footnotes

1. This document is 4HPSL21, one of a series of the 4-H Youth Development Program, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date May 1997. Revised January 2015. Reviewed January 2019. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication. For more publications in the 4-H Plant Connections curriculum, go to https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/topic_4h_plant_connections.
2. Originally written by Janice Easton, UF/IFAS Extension Alachua County; and Deborah J. Glauer, UF/IFAS Extension Youth Development Specialist and Plant Science Design Team Leader; additional assistance provided by project assistants Christy Poole and Lynne Schreiber; reviewed and revised by Dr. Sydney Park Brown, associate professor, Environmental Horticulture; Norma Samuel, UF/IFAS Extension urban horticulture agent II, UF/IFAS Extension Marion County; Dr. Paula Davis, UF/IFAS Extension 4-H youth development agent III, UF/IFAS Extension Bay County; and Dr. Joy C. Jordan, associate professor, Department of Family, Youth, and Community Sciences; UF/iFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.