Children + Plants + Gardens = Love
Let’s engage children in cultivating a greener world!
I offer customized, in-shool field trips. These educational, multidisciplinary field trips will enhance and expand classroom knowledge by involving students with hands-on, multisensory experiences centered around gardening, growing plants, and learning how we can be good stewards of our amazing world.

Field Trip Details
Activities include:
Book reading of Sharon’s book: The Perfect Place for Plants
A signed book will be gifted to the class
Multisensory Learning Centers
- Observation and Discussion
Each student will plant their own flower to take home
More Details:
The general outline of this field trip includes an interactive reading of Sharon’s book, The Perfect Place for Plants, a PowerPoint and learning centers that cover learning outcomes appropriate for each grade:
- Kindergarten & Division 1: Interactive learning stations include things like sensory bins, drawing & colouring, puzzles, and planting a flower to take home
- Division 2: Learning Stations with creative, multisensory activities like flip books, seed sorting, interactive worksheets, seed sorting, and planting a flower to take home
- There might even be even some singing!
I provide all the materials necessary for this field trip. Teachers and parent volunteers are an integral part of making this field trip delightful.
Alberta Learning Outcomes to be Covered:
Division 1:
Kindergarten: Plant parts & functions, The Needs of Plants
Grade 1: Seasonal Changes, The Needs of Animals & Plants
Grade 2: Exploring Liquids (the Movement of Water), Small Crawling & Flying Animals (Pollinators)
Grade 3: Investigating Soils
Division 2:
Grade 4: Plant Growth & Changes, Structures & Functions, Plant Needs, Photosynthesis, Plant Adaptations
Grade 5: Classroom Chemistry (Fertilizer), Wetland Ecosystems, Pollinators
Guidelines for Booking In-School Field Trips with Gardening with Sharon
Current COVID Guidelines will be adhered to as outlined by Alberta Healthcare Services.
- Determine how many sets of materials needed for the field trip, a minimum of 20 students is requested.
- Encourage other classes in your school to do a fieldtrip on the same day too and we can make it a whole morning, afternoon, or day of learning & planting!
- I will provide the plants and materials needed.
- The school will be invoiced upon receipt of field trip materials and payment is due upon receipt of invoice.
- If there are changes in the amount of materials needed, please notify Sharon 1 week ahead of time.
Field Trip Costs:
Planting Field Trip:
$18 per student within the Greater Edmonton Area including:
- Beaumont
- Ft Saskatchewan
- Sherwood Park
- Spruce Grove
- Stony Plain
A travelling fee will be applied for schools outside of this area
Field Trip Date Change Policy
Sometimes life happens and we get it.
Field Trip dates can be changed within a one week window provided that dates are available.
Field Trip Cancellations
Here are the guidelines for cancelling when there are no other alternatives:
- Field trips may be cancelled up to 10 business days ahead of the field tip date at no charge.
- Field trips cancelled in less than 10 business days of the field trip date will be charged $75
Contact Sharon today to book a field trip day or for more information on school field trips
- 780.904.3514
- gardeningwithsharon@gmail.com