Green Wood For the Garden
This book is full of step by step projects for the garden using freshly cut wood. It has over fifteen projects for the outdoors, and includes advice on certain techniques pertaining to green wood.
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Gardens & Seeds
This resource is filled with developmentally appropriate activities for pre- Kindergarten to 2nd grade children that can be incorporated as a unit on plants and seeds in a classroom’s curriculum.
Gardening with Children
This book is written specifically for parents to involve children in a family garden. This is a great resource that includes the basics of taking care of a garden to creating fun family garden projects.
Gardening with Children
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.
Festivals Family and Food: Guide to Seasonal Celebration
More than a cookbook, this book is a guide to celebrating festivals through stories, songs, recipes, games, crafts and poems. This guide could lead to new seasonal traditions in a home or classroom.
Exploring Patterns in Math & Beyond
Designed for k-2 students, this activity guidebook has 30 great activities to teach patterns and with them the basics of important thinking and reasoning skills.
Eat Fresh Buy Local: A Guide to Eating Locally on a Limited Budget
This local Vermont guide is filled with great information on different food benefit programs like WIC as well as tips like preserving food and recipes for families on a budget.
Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale
This program quality assessment instrument can be utilized for self-assessment and quality improvement in classrooms with children ages 2 ½ to 5 years old. It includes sections giving detailed rationale for what is being scored as well as instructions for using the score sheets.
Dig, Plant, Grow
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.
The Bountiful Container
Learn how to create a garden on your balcony or patio with container gardening. Organized by different vegetables, herbs, fruits and edible flowers, McGee and Stuckey have written a manual with all the best advice for growing a large variety of edible plants within a confined space.