Ideas for school garden signs

These are photos of signage from life lab. They are fun and great for interpretation.

Root boxes

I first saw these when I was at Life Lab which is the educational garden program at UC Santa Cruz. This is a wood planter with a hinged wall that allows kids to see the roots of a growing plant. Here are instructions for making one.

http://www.kidsgardening.com/growingideas/projects/july04/root-view-box.pdf

really cool.