In Grow Lab teachers learn how to build, feed, and support a garden in the classroom. It not only gives you step by step instructions it also shows teachers ways in which to incorporate the garden in their lessons.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden created this handbook to connect children with the natural outdoors through activities involving gardening. With over 40 hands-on activities divided into five chapters about the natural environment and the science of plants, this is a great resource for families and educators to get children outside.
This book provides a list of farms in the Appalachia community that allows schools to visit, and a list of what lessons to teach there.
This clever cookbook combines fairy tale stories with recipes for the whole family to try. The fairy tales include the familiar stories of Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Show White, as well as more unfamiliar tales like The Runaway Pancake and The Magic Cave. Try the Little Mermaid’s Seaweed Stuffed Shells (with local spinach!)
Elliot learns to love cooking through his neighbor Stella. He also learns to understand where his food comes from and what makes the food he cooks healthy.
Designed to get children out of their traditional indoor environment, Naturalist Intelligence is a curriculum that focuses on having students build observation, collection, analysis, and communication skills to become scientists within their school playground.
This English and Spanish language curriculum guide includes a Student Food Journal to go alongside all the lesson plans. The lesson plans are meant for children to get hands-on experience with food while integrating language, math, science and social studies for grades 4-6.
This guide is meant to help communities or schools get started with a garden, from fundraising and having an initial meeting, to breaking ground and activities involving youth. The case studies of school and community gardens around the United States show how connecting children to the earth is so important for their education.
Filled with tons of ideas from outdoor crafts to details about easy plants to grow, this project filled book is a fantastic resource for teachers and parents trying to get their kids excited about the garden.
Dinner from Dirt provides the basic steps to teach children how to garden and what to plant. Then it keeps on developing the idea of what we garden into what we eat, by providing recipes. Dinner from Dirt shows children that if there is something they really like to eat, pizza or stir fry, they can