I'm teaching a gardening class at one of our co-ops and while looking for resources to organize my lessons, I decided to use the Boy Scout merit badge worksheets, which are all online. Bingo! These are great! The Cub Scouts also have activity badges in lots of topics, which are written for younger kids so the skill level required is not as difficult. Whether or not you are involved in BSA or even like the organization, their merit badge worksheets are a fantastic resource for homeschooling. They're a good mix of information gathering, which can be demonstrated with essays or discussion, and activities of pretty substantial things to do. Click on my Resources tab at the top, and scroll down to Scouting for direct links to the merit badges and activity badges.
You can buy the merit badge books to go with the worksheets (again, even if you're not in Scouts - you can order them online or just walk into a Scout shop and get them), ooorrrrr you can Google the things you don't know and find the information that way. I'm going with the Google method.
For my co-op class, I went through the Plant Science and Gardening worksheets, and pulled questions to work with for my group. The plan for our session is to get the kids outside and actually working in the dirt - we have permission from our co-op hosts to help with their spring landscaping, but the ground is still frozen and covered with about a foot of snow. So we have to wait for that. Hopefully it will be before the co-op ends!
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