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Gardening engages young children by providing a dynamic environment to observe, discover, experiment, nurture and learn. From safe plants to age-appropriate activities and everything in-between, this group is your go-to for gardening with young kids (infant - PreK) in formal (e.g. Head Start) or informal (e.g. home or childcare) settings.
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This Growing School Food Gardens group is open to all educators, administrators, and volunteers growing or interested in growing food in a school garden! Join this group to connect with other practitioners, explore resources specific to school food gardens, and learn during virtual coaching calls and webinars.
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This K-5 curriculum from National Wildlife Federation was designed to engage students in learning about pollinator habitats, the connections between plants and animals, and our role in the environment. It is a placed-based curriculum which allows students to learn about biodiversity, ecosystems and habitats through direct experience and observation. The culmination is the creation of their own schoolyard pollinator habitat.The curriculum is organized by season, beginning in September. The lessons reflect what is happening in nature and take advantage of opportunities for field observation. Although it says "Growing A Wild NYC" this curriculum is useable in any urban environment.
NWF's Schoolyard Habitats Guide helps communities to plan, build, and maintain a NWF Schoolyard Habitats® garden, leading you through a clear, step-by-step process. You’ll also find Green STEAM learning opportunities for students and many environment-based teaching tools.
Shelburne Farms' Cultivating Joy and Wonder brings Education for Sustainability into your early childhood classroom through engaging activities, essays, and resources that encourage children to explore and engage in the world around them. Includes more than 75 “facilitated learning experiences” organized around four “threads” that flow through the seasons: Who Are We?, Who Lives Here?, What’s Happening?, and How Are We Connected?
BackPocket Learning was created by Life Lab with support from Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation.
BackPocket Learning is collection of activities that every garden educator or parent should have in their “Back Pocket”.
The activities referenced on this searchable directory are based on the following criteria:
Minimal materials needed. Most everything you need to do these activities you already have.
Ease of implementation.
Encourages outdoor exploration such as stepping out on your porch, in your yard or garden.
Healthy, plant-based recipes with easily accessible ingredients.
Not screen-based (with the exception of some instructional videos).
The FoodCorps Lessons for food and garden educators includes hands-on experiential activities to engage kids in learning about healthy food. Lessons are organized by grade, season, and theme; are tied to national academic standards; and were developed following Culturally Responsive Teaching, Place Based Learning, and Social and Emotional Learning best practices and frameworks.This suite of 96 lessons are for grades K-5.
Early childhood sites can foster strong family partnerships with farm to ECE activities. Family engagement is central to early care and education quality. When families are involved in education, children benefit, the program benefits, and families benefit.This resource from Rooted has ideas on how to use farm to ECE to engage families.
Hands on activities for composting and vermicomposting in school! By using the activities in this guide, you will be joining thousands of teachers across the country in bringing compost into the classroom as a valuable teaching tool. The activities you’ll find in Do the Rot Thing are hands-on and encourage student exploration and learning.Do the Rot Thing has been made available to educators through the efforts of the Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District in collaboration with the Northern Vermont Composting Partnership.
Community Garden Resource Guide by Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. This free guide includes steps, resources, and examples for organizing, designing, planting, and sustaining a community garden.
Slow Food USA, in partnership with Whole Kids Foundation, has developed a toolkit to help school district food services safely bring school garden produce onto the lunch line!
The Growing Minds Farm to Preschool Toolkit contains all of our farm to preschool resources, including lesson plans, “This Week in the Garden” activity guides, “Farm to School Goes Home” parent handouts, local food sourcing guidance, and tips for cooking and gardening with young children. It also includes a resource developed by the NC Farm to Preschool Network, “Reach for the Stars with Farm to Preschool“, which aligns the Early Childhood and Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scales (revised editions) with farm to preschool activities.
This second edition, published in 2020, is updated with a new, easy to use format and streamlined recipes. The Toolkit is available in hardcopy (see details on how to order a copy below), or as a free digital download.
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