Lesson Plans

Thanks to a generous grant from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, the Green Animals ESY team has been able to develop lesson plans focused on the RI Social Studies GSEs as the basis of our lessons. Check out the Rhode Island Grade Span Expectations here.

Below are lesson plans for teachers to use while at Green Animals, or in their own classrooms. All of the lessons posted were either developed by teachers working with the ESY team at Green Animals, or collected and compiled by our Outreach Horticulturalist, Tricia Bailey from her time at the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center.

We strive to keep our lessons as up to date as possible. If you have a suggestion or any feed back about our current plans, please email Abigail Stewart at astewart@newportmansions.org.

Grades K – 5

• What’s on the Table: Local Produce
• What’s on the Table: Where Are You From?
• World of Trees at Green Animals
• Where in the World?
• Follow the Drinking Gourd

Grades 6 – 8

• Gift of the Nile
• World of Trees at Green Animals
• Colonial Kitchen Gardens
• Follow the Drinking Gourd
• Westward Expansion

Grades 9 – 12

• Food Traditions
• World of Trees at Green Animals
• Colonial Kitchen Gardens
• Gardens on the Home Front: Victory Gardens
• Follow the Drinking Gourd

Check out more amazing ideas to be found at The Edible Schoolyard Resource Page.

To see all the teaching materials the  Newport Preservation Society is providing the community, visit us on our Teacher Resource page.