Download or read book The School Garden Curriculum written by Kaci Rae Christopher and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sow the seeds of science and wonder and inspire the next generation of Earth stewards The School Garden Curriculum offers a unique and comprehensive framework, enabling students to grow their knowledge throughout the school year and build on it from kindergarten to eighth grade. From seasonal garden activities to inquiry projects and science-skill building, children will develop organic gardening solutions, a positive land ethic, systems thinking, and instincts for ecological stewardship. The world needs young people to grow into strong, scientifically literate environmental stewards. Learning gardens are great places to build this knowledge, yet until now there has been a lack of a multi-grade curriculum for school-wide teaching aimed at fostering a connection with the Earth. The book offers: A complete K-8 school-wide framework Over 200 engaging, weekly lesson plans – ready to share Place-based activities, immersive learning, and hands-on activities Integration of science, critical thinking, permaculture, and life skills Links to Next Generation Science Standards Further resources and information sources. A model and guide for all educators, The School Garden Curriculum is the complete package for any school wishing to use ecosystem perspectives, science, and permaculture to connect children to positive land ethics, personal responsibility, and wonder, while building vital lifelong skills. AWARDS FINALIST | 2019 Foreword INDIES: Education

Download or read book Learning Gardens and Sustainability Education written by Dilafruz Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a fresh approach to bringing life to schools and schools to life, this book goes beyond touting the benefits of learning gardens to survey them as a whole-systems design solution with potential to address myriad interrelated social, ecological, and educational issues. The theoretical and conceptual framework presented creatively places soil at the center of the discourse on sustainability education and learning garden design and pedagogy. Seven elements and attributes of living soil and learning gardens are presented as a guide for sustainability education: cultivating a sense of place; fostering curiosity and wonder; discovering rhythm and scale; valuing biocultural diversity; embracing practical experience ; nurturing interconnectedness. The living soil of learning gardens forms the basis of a new metaphoric language serving to contest dominant mechanistic metaphors presently influencing educational discourse. Student voices and examples from urban schools provide practical understanding of how bringing life to schools can indeed bring schools to life.

Download or read book Why Garden in Schools written by Lexi Earl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delves into the complex history of the gardening movement in schools and examines the question why gardens should be built in schools. It offers practical guidance for teachers to begin thinking about how to approach educational gardening. A resurgence of interest in school gardens is linked to concerns about children’s health, food knowledge, lack of outdoor play and contact with the natural world. This book warns against simplistic one-best approaches and makes a case about the complexity of gardening in schools. It is the first critical attempt to address the complex and conflicting notions about school gardens and to tackle the question ‘what is the problem to which school gardens are the answer?’ Examining the educational theory in which gardening has been explained and advocated, the book explores the way contemporary gardens research has been conducted with specific questions such as ‘what works well in school gardens?’ Based on case studies of a school establishing a garden and another one maintaining a garden, chapters look at the way in which schools come to frame their gardens. The authors suggest that there are four issues to consider when setting up a school garden or evaluating a pre-existing one – wider social context, public policy, the whole school, and the formal and informal curriculum. The book ends with a call for consideration of the ways in which school gardens can be built, the myriad practices that constitute an educational garden space and the challenges of maintaining a school garden over the long term. It will be of interest to teachers in primary schools, as well as a key point of reference for scholars, academics and students researching school gardens.

Download or read book The Garden Classroom written by Cathy James and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative ways to use the garden to inspire learning, for kids ages 4-8 Packed with garden-based activities that promote science, math, reading, writing, imaginative play, and arts and crafts, The Garden Classroom offers a whole year of outdoor play and learning ideas—however big or small your garden. Every garden offers children a rich, sensory playground, full of interesting things to discover and learn about. There's a whole lot of science happening right before their eyes. The garden can also be a place to develop math and literacy skills, as the outdoors offers up plenty of invitations to weave learning into everyday gardening. The garden classroom is a place where plants grow, and where children grow too.

Download or read book A Child s Garden of Standards written by Janice Lowen Agee and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How to Grow a School Garden written by Arden Bucklin-Sporer and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking resource, two school garden pioneers offer parents, teachers, and school administrators everything they need to know to build school gardens and to develop the programs that support them. Today both schools and parents have a unique opportunity — and an increasing responsibility — to cultivate an awareness of our finite resources, to reinforce values of environmental stewardship, to help students understand concepts of nutrition and health, and to connect children to the natural world. What better way to do this than by engaging young people, their families, and teachers in the wondrous outdoor classroom that is their very own school garden? It's all here: developing the concept, planning, fund-raising, organizing, designing the space, preparing the site, working with parents and schools, teaching in the garden, planting, harvesting, and even cooking, with kid-friendly recipes and year-round activities. Packed with strategies, to-do lists, sample letters, detailed lesson plans, and tricks of the trade from decades of experience developing school garden programs for grades K–8, this hands-on approach will make school garden projects accessible, inexpensive, and sustainable. Reclaiming a piece of neglected play yard and transforming it into an ecologically rich school garden is among the most beneficial activities that parents, teachers, and children can undertake together. This book provides all the tools that the school community needs to build a productive and engaging school garden that will continue to inspire and nurture students and families for years to come.

Download or read book Among School Gardens written by Maria Louise Greene and published by New York : Charities Publication Committee. This book was released on 1910 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ripe for Change written by Jane S. Hirschi and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ripe for Change: Garden-Based Learning in Schools takes a big-picture view of the school garden movement and the state of garden-based learning in public K–8 education. The book frames the garden movement for educators and shows how school gardens have the potential to be a significant resource for teaching and learning. In this inviting and accessible book, the author: Summarizes the current school gardening movement and the emerging field of garden-based learning Provides an overview of the origins, benefits, and barriers to school gardening Explores sustainable models for garden-based learning Includes five case studies of successful partnerships between urban districts and nonprofit school gardening organizations around the countryIllustrates how gardens can be used for integrating academic lessons aligned with the Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards Includes examples of important tools available for assessing the impact of school gardens Ripe for Change reveals a wealth of resources to show how garden-based learning is being implemented in a systematic way in public education, and offers next steps to widen and deepen the practice to reach children in all schools.

Download or read book School Gardens written by B. T. Galloway and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ripe for Change written by Jane S. Hirschi and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ripe for Change takes a big-picture view of the school garden movement and that state of garden-based learning in public K-8 education. The book provides a wealth of practical case studies and resources to show how garden-based learning is being systematically implemented in public education, and offers next steps for expanding the use of gardens in schools. -- from back cover.

Download or read book Schools and War Gardens Some Guides and Resources written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Educators Perspectives Associated with School Garden Programs in Clark County Nevada written by Tomomi Murakami and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "School garden programs have been utilized in the U.S. since their introduction at the end of the 19th century. The use of school gardens and the teaching style implemented in them are dependent on individual schools and teachers. Educators’ attitudes, knowledge, and motivation for a school-based gardening program are crucial to implementing comprehensive school garden programs. To move toward an expansion of garden education, it is necessary to determine the concerns, resources, benefits or barriers that educators identify regarding the utilization of gardens to teach their students. The purpose of this pilot study was to determine principals’ and teachers’ perceived practices, resources, benefits, and barriers to the school garden programs in Clark County Nevada. The survey was sent to 250 teachers and administrators at schools in Clark County School District (CCSD) using an electronic web site link on an invitation to participated in the survey. One hundred and nineteen educators completed the survey and were used for the data analysis. Many educators with gardens perceive that students benefit from school garden programs; however, there are factors that can be improved for the implementation of school garden programs in CCSD to be a success. Current practices and important resources needed for school gardens as well as benefits of and barriers to the school garden programs will be presented. Recommendations will assist the suitability of school gardening in the future."--Abstract.

Download or read book My School Garden written by Diego G Deassis and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planting a school garden is extremely rewarding and provides endless lessons in sustainability for students and staff. The sustainable gardens movement is expanding and growing in school districts across America. This student observation journal is a great way for students and green teams to explore, observe, and document the process of growing plants. If you're looking for an elementary classroom tool to promote personalized learning, writing, and research, consider equipping your students with this school garden journal. Ideal for K-3 students and green teams. Applications: Public Schools, Montessori, Schools, Religious Schools, Private Schools, Elementary Schools, Community Gardens, Homeschool.

Download or read book Outdoor Classrooms written by Carolyn Nuttall and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outdoor Classrooms: A Handbook for School Gardens is ideal for teachers and home educators who want to incorporate education at all levels of the school curriculum with an emphasis on: setting up edible gardens teaching children about growing food food security and economics human and planetary health permaculture and sustainabi.

Download or read book Gardening Through the Schools written by California. State Department of Education and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gardening in Elementary City Schools written by C. D. Jarvis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Gardening in Elementary City Schools: I. Why Gardening Should Be Introduced Into the Schools; II. How Gardening May Be Introduced Into the Schools; III. How Gardening May Be Promoted by the Schools This pamphlet has been prepared for the benefit of school officials and others who are interested in the promotion of gardening in the elementary schools of towns and cities. It attempts to Show brie y how productive gardening contributes to the needs Of the school and how the work may be organized and administered. Like most recently accepted school subjects, gardenn has been introduced largely as a result of outside pressure. The school has been remarkably responsive to public demand in this respect. This response on the part of the schools is becoming more acute, and it is a promising indication to find that the leading school administrators are recognizing gardening and are prepared to give it a place in the curriculum. From the standpoint of financial support, also, gar dening has had to pass through the same troublous vicissitudes as music, manual training, drawing, and home economics. Like these, it has been financed and its value demonstrated largely by outside in uence. School boards are just beginning to make provision for the financial support of this subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Download or read book My School Garden Journal written by Diego G Deassis and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sustainable gardens movement is expanding and growing in school districts across America! Planting a school garden is extremely rewarding and provides endless lessons in sustainability for students and staff. This student observation journal is a great way for students and green teams to explore, observe, and document the process of growing plants. If you're looking for an elementary classroom tool to promote personalized learning, writing, and research, consider equipping your students with this school garden journal. Ideal for K-3 students and classrooms in public schools, Montessori, religious and private schools, and homeschooling families.