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
Big Ideas provides teachers, kindergarten through high school, ideas on how to educate their students about food, culture, health, and the environment. Using the four perspectives it lays out steps on how to educate students on food and food systems.
WNC Child Nutrition Directors are working hard to source local products and feed healthy, nutritious meals to area children.
For the 2013-2014 academic year, ASAP was given the university’s award for “Excellence in Community Partnership.”
This K-6 resource of 45 hands-on activities is for educators who want to teach children about the larger issues of food, from their own healthy food choices to the farmers and environments that grow it. The lessons also are designed to align with the Benchmarks for Science Literacy.
Written by a parent, a teacher, and a child education director, this resource is the result of their experience creating a diverse garden at their early childhood center. Their goal is to share their experiences in hopes that parents and educators will integrate gardening as a learning tool for young children.
Mollie Katzen brings another set of 65 recipes to life in this cookbook aimed at kids ages 8 and older. The illustrated recipes mean that kids can create delicious food without a lot of adult assistance and become creative young chefs in their own family’s kitchen!
If I’ve learned anything from conducting ASAP Growing Minds taste tests in four different elementary schools in Western North Carolina, it is that kids don’t hold back on their opinions.