6 Reasons Tower Garden Is a Great Teaching Tool
As Global Teacher Prize Finalist Stephen Ritz said, Tower Garden “is the most cost-effective school garden aligned to academic outcomes one can ever imagine.” No wonder we’ve seen thousands of schools across the country take up Tower Gardening!
Here are just a few reasons we think you’ll love growing Tower Garden in your classroom.
1. You’ll grow more in less time and with fewer resources
Tower Garden uses aeroponic technology, which—compared to soil gardening—has been shown to increase yields by as much as 30% and triple the speed of plant growth, while using only 10% of the water and space.
2. You can grow inside the classroom
LED indoor grow lights allow you to garden indoors all school year long, which means bodies (and minds) don’t have to leave your learning environment to grow. Tower Garden Home includes the grow lights. You can also add LED indoor grow lights to your Tower Garden FLEX Growing System.
3. You’ll have less mess
Compared to traditional gardening, there’s less hassle and cleanup with Tower Garden, because it doesn’t use soil.
4. You can move it wherever learning is happening
With the dolly, you can wheel Tower Garden from the classroom to the cafeteria to the playground—and pretty much anywhere else your students are!
5. You’ll get growing support
Lesson plans, growing guides, FAQs and more—Tower Garden offers useful information to help troubleshoot any problem you might have.
6. You’ll get free access to lesson plans
With 30 CCSS- and NGSS-aligned lesson plans and learning materials for Pre-K through 7th grade, incorporating Tower Garden into your curriculum will be easy.
Would you like to better engage your class, increase attendance, or improve student performance? Tower Garden can help you educate, excite, and inspire in your classroom.
NEW Tower Garden School Resources
- Benefits of Growing with Tower Garden (y en Español)
- Reordering Supplies (y en Español)
- The Perfect School Garden (y en Español)
- Recommended Plants to Grow (y en Español)
- School Maintenance Checklist (y en Español)
- School Maintenance Log (y en Español)
- Training Notes (y en Español)
- Teacher Checklist (y en Español)