Our School Garden

Author : Rick Swann
Publisher : Readers to Eaters
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0998436631

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Our School Garden! by Rick Swann Pdf

New city. New school. Michael is feeling all alone--until he discovers the school garden! There's so many ways to learn, and so much work to do. Taste a leaf? Mmm, nice and tangy hot. Dig for bugs? "Roly-poly!" he yells. But the garden is much more than activities outdoors: making school garden stone soup, writing Found Poems and solving garden riddles, getting involved in community projects such as Harvest Day, food bank donations, and spring plant sales. Each season creates a new way to learn, explore and make friends. School librarian and gardener Rick Swann, in his picture book debut, describes the wonder of connecting with nature and the joy of growing and eating one's own harvest. Award-winning artist Christy Hale (Dreaming Up, Elizabeti's Doll series) captures the brilliant color of the season and the harvest. This is the perfect book to read alone, as well as share in the classroom or with the entire family. Good read for the young gardener. Winner of the Growing Good Kids Book Award from Junior Master Gardener Program and American Horticultural Society, named Food Tanks' "15 Book for Future Foodies," and the Whole Kids Foundation Book Club selection in 2016.

Author : Kaci Rae Christopher
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781771422949

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The School Garden Curriculum by Kaci Rae Christopher Pdf

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

Author : George Ancona
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781536221602

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It's Our Garden by George Ancona Pdf

“This fun and inspiring season-by-season description of a school gardening project could encourage others to repeat this extraordinary experience.” — School Library Journal Want to grow what you eat and eat what you grow? Visit this lively, flourishing school-and-community garden and be inspired to cultivate your own. Part celebration, part simple how-to, this close-up look at a vibrant garden and its enthusiastic gardeners is blooming with photos that will have readers ready to roll up their sleeves and dig in.

Author : Arden Bucklin-Sporer,Rachel Pringle
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781604692556

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How to Grow a School Garden by Arden Bucklin-Sporer,Rachel Pringle Pdf

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.

Author : Rebecca Bevan
Publisher : National Trust
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781911657378

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National Trust School of Gardening by Rebecca Bevan Pdf

‘An accessible, informative guide for beginners, but full of ideas and tips for seasoned gardeners.’ – Sunday Mirror Elevate your own green space and become a more confident and creative gardener with lessons from experienced National Trust gardeners in this comprehensive horticultural guide. The National Trust looks after hundreds of beautiful gardens of every imaginable shape and size across Britain – from the grandest country estate to the smallest cottage garden. They manage such internationally renowned gardens as Sissinghurst and Hidcote. National Trust garden staff receive countless questions from visitors about plants growing in the gardens and techniques that can be tried at home. This in-depth guide will pass on their wisdom and provide the answers you are looking for. This book is packed with images of National Trust gardens of all types, spanning over 300 years of horticultural heritage, to inspire keen amateur gardeners and aspirational novices to realise their green-fingered ambitions. Written by expert gardener Rebecca Bevan, with the help of National Trust gardeners, the National Trust School of Gardening will make you feel confident about developing your garden rather than overwhelmed with unnecessary technical detail. From herbaceous borders to gardening sustainably, roses and climbers to growing under glass, each chapter provides snippets of horticultural history, examples of best practice from National Trust gardens, unique gems of wisdom from talented NT gardeners, and lots of easy-to-follow practical advice. Featuring a wide range of National Trust gardens both large and small, formal and informal, famous and undiscovered, high maintenance and low key. The topics covered and the insightful practical guides shared are easily applicable to private gardens, enriching even the tiniest urban spaces.

Author : Danny Hunter,Emilita Monville-Oro,Bessie Burgos,Carmen Nyhria Roel,Blesilda M. Calub,Julian Gonsalves,Nina Lauridsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429620645

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Agrobiodiversity, School Gardens and Healthy Diets by Danny Hunter,Emilita Monville-Oro,Bessie Burgos,Carmen Nyhria Roel,Blesilda M. Calub,Julian Gonsalves,Nina Lauridsen Pdf

This book critically assesses the role of agrobiodiversity in school gardens and its contribution to diversifying diets, promoting healthy eating habits and improving nutrition among schoolchildren as well as other benefits relating to climate change adaptation, ecoliteracy and greening school spaces. Many schoolchildren suffer from various forms of malnutrition and it is important to address their nutritional status given the effects it has on their health, cognition, and subsequently their educational achievement. Schools are recognized as excellent platforms for promoting lifelong healthy eating and improving long-term, sustainable nutrition security required for optimum educational outcomes. This book reveals the multiple benefits of school gardens for improving nutrition and education for children and their families. It examines issues such as school feeding, community food production, school gardening, nutritional education and the promotion of agrobiodiversity, and draws on international case studies, from both developed and developing nations, to provide a comprehensive global assessment. This book will be essential reading for those interested in promoting agrobiodiversity, sustainable nutrition and healthy eating habits in schools and public institutions more generally. It identifies recurring and emerging issues, establishes best practices, identifies key criteria for success and advises on strategies for scaling up and scaling out elements to improve the uptake of school gardens.

Author : Cathy James
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781611801644

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The Garden Classroom by Cathy James Pdf

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.

Author : Laurie Thorp
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 0759107831

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The Pull of the Earth by Laurie Thorp Pdf

A literary ethnography of how a garden at an underserved school changed the educational environment.

Author : Rann Roberts
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433304545

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Our School Garden 6-Pack by Rann Roberts Pdf

Use patterns to plan school gardens! In this title, two groups of students are planting different gardens, but both are using patterns. This book encourages young readers to practice making patterns in a practical way, improving their mathematical and STEM skills. Vibrant images, practical examples, and helpful mathematical diagrams keep children engaged, showing them how patterns can be easy and fun to make! This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

Author : Carolyn Nuttall,Janet Leigh Millington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1856231135

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Outdoor Classrooms by Carolyn Nuttall,Janet Leigh Millington Pdf

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.

Author : Joel Mader
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781439625873

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Cleveland School Gardens by Joel Mader Pdf

The Cleveland Public School’s tract garden program was one of the most successful and innovative programs of the school system. The organization and beauty of the gardens attracted horticulture educators from all over the United States, South America, and as far away as Japan. From its humble beginnings in 1904 as a project to beautify vacant lots in Cleveland, it grew into an educational tool that taught thousands of children the respect for nature and its bounty. At the tract gardens’ height, the amount of land under cultivation in the middle of the Cleveland urban landscape approached 100 acres. By 1970, there were 27 horticultural centers servicing all Cleveland schools. Centers were located next to schools, in housing estates, at fairgrounds, at a home for the aged, and on museum property. A few of the centers are now neighborhood gardens. The photographs in Cleveland School Gardens show that the Cleveland Public Schools knew the importance of being “green” 100 years before it was politically fashionable.

Author : Dilafruz Williams,Jonathan Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136583506

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Learning Gardens and Sustainability Education by Dilafruz Williams,Jonathan Brown Pdf

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.

Author : Diego G Deassis,Sustainable Gardens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1081873302

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My School Garden Journal by Diego G Deassis,Sustainable Gardens Pdf

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.

Author : Elizabeth Spurr
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781561455812

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In the Garden by Elizabeth Spurr Pdf

Simple and evocative language and charming illustrations describe a boy's experience in the garden. In this gently rhyming board book, a young boy creates a garden, one small action at a time. First he digs in the dirt and plants seeds, then he adds soil, water, and some patience. With time, the seeds grow and the boy excitedly discovers what he has helped to make. Elizabeth Spurr and Manelle Oliphant together create a perfect sit-in-your-lap reading experience for toddlers.

Author : Linda Kranz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1630761923

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Only One You by Linda Kranz Pdf