The Garden Classroom

The Garden Classroom
Author: Cathy James
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2015-04-07
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1611801648
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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.

Teaching in Nature's Classroom

Teaching in Nature's Classroom
Author: Nathan K Larson
Publisher: Environmental Design Lab Press
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9780996264211
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In Teaching in Nature's Classroom: Principles of Garden-Based Education, Nathan Larson shares a philosophy of teaching in the garden. Rooted in years of experience and supported by research, Larson presents fifteen guiding principles of garden-based education. These principles and best practices are illustrated through engaging stories from the field. The book features vivid paintings by mural artist Becky Hiller and connections to the research literature provided by Alex Wells and Sam Dennis of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Environmental Design Lab.

The Growing Classroom

The Growing Classroom
Author: Roberta Jaffe
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Total Pages: 506
Release: 1990
Genre: Education
ISBN:
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The School Garden Curriculum

The School Garden Curriculum
Author: Kaci Rae Christopher
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Total Pages: 570
Release: 2019-04-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1771422947
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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

Mrs. Spitzer's Garden

Mrs. Spitzer's Garden
Author: Edith Pattou
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2001
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780152019785
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With her sure, loving, gardener's touch, Mrs. Spitzer nutures the students in her classroom each year.

High Performance Gardening

High Performance Gardening
Author: Lynn Gillespie
Publisher: TLC Publishing (VA)
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2016-07-10
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781929709069
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Explore the world of weed free, productive, and organic gardening, with Lynn Gillespie, the creator of the High Performance Garden System. Learn the history of gardening systems, what sets the High Performance Garden apart, and where to get started on creating your own garden system in your backyard today.

Grow Lab

Grow Lab
Author: Eve Pranis
Publisher: National Gardening Assn
Total Pages: 127
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Children's gardens.
ISBN: 9780915873319
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A horticultural resource for use with an indoor classroom garden, from windowsill to a home made or ready-to-assemble GrowLab Indoor Garden. Comprehensive information for raising vegetables, flowers and herbs to maturity in the classroom, creative classroom projects and interdisciplinary activity ideas, and complete plans for building your owm classroom light garden.

Moving the Classroom Outdoors

Moving the Classroom Outdoors
Author: Herbert W. Broda
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2011
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1571107916
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Designed to provide teachers and administrators with a range of practical suggestions for making the schoolyard a varied and viable learning resource, Moving the Classroom Outdoors presents concrete examples of how urban, suburban, and rural schools have enhanced the school site as a teaching tool. --from publisher description.

The Outdoor Classroom in Practice, Ages 3-7

The Outdoor Classroom in Practice, Ages 3-7
Author: Karen Constable
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2014-11-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317915410
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The outdoor environment is now an integral part of many early years settings and schools, but is it being used to its full potential? Providing extensive, challenging and ever-changing outdoor play experiences is an essential and valuable aspect of early years education. This book offers comprehensive guidance on how the outdoor environment can be used to teach and challenge all children across a range of settings drawing on forest school practice. Following a month-by-month format, each chapter provides a selection of theme-related play experiences alongside planning and evaluations of how the ideas described were carried out, and reveals the impact that they had on the children. Including detailed information on the role of the adult, the environment, planning and using children’s interests to guide their learning and development, the book features: over 100 full-colour photographs to illustrate practice diary entries that reflect how the planning was delivered, what changes were made and how aspects of learning were recorded and assessed examples of practice as well as comprehensive resource lists and safety guidelines links to indoor play and opportunities at home. Written by a leading authority on forest school practice and full of practical ideas that can be adapted to suit individual children’s needs, this book aims to inspire practitioners to make the most of the outdoor environment throughout the year.

Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt

Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt
Author: Kate Messner
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2015-03-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1452144192
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In this exuberant and lyrical follow-up to the award-winning Over and Under the Snow, discover the wonders that lie hidden between stalks, under the shade of leaves . . . and down in the dirt. Explore the hidden world and many lives of a garden through the course of a year! Up in the garden, the world is full of green—leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt exists a busy world—earthworms dig, snakes hunt, skunks burrow—populated by all the animals that make a garden their home. Plus, this is the fixed format version, which will look almost identical to the print version. Additionally for devices that support audio, this ebook includes a read-along setting.