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2 months ago

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Gardening in Our Warming World: Youth Grow! consists of an updated curriculum and unit-based Facilitator Guides for youth on Climate Change. It will complement the Cornell GBL adult “Gardening in a Warming World” with links to Youth Grow, Seed to Supper and 4-H activities. While activities include the science of climate change, cause and effect, and actions we take to address the issue, we would like the tone to be less alarming therefor preventing climate-anxiety. Activities are more self-reflective and inspiring, with exploration on what people and communities are doing, what youth themselves can do now, and how they see themselves in the future making positive changes. The focus is on systems thinking, sustainability and food systems. Activities are appropriate for Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced skill levels (grades 3-6, 7-12) with some early learning introduction.
 
The Gardening in Our Warming World: Youth Grow! curriculum consists of four conceptual units, each with corresponding activities and lesson plans following the 4-H Thriving Model, 4-H Guided Inquiry format, and Common Core Learning Standards. Included are links to relevant resources and additional lessons and activities, and suggestions on how to facilitate dialogue on this occasionally challenging topic. An accompanying PowerPoint presentation can be shared with other educators to introduce and curriculum and teaching strategies.



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2 months ago

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This book focuses on helping 3rd-12th grade teachers facilitate scientific inquiry projects that are grounded in local places and environments. The book uses the Next Generation Science Standards to provide a strong conceptual and practical foundation for advancing community engagement in a justice-first classroom. Supplied with key ideas, step-by-step guidance on teaching practices, template documents, illustrations, and examples of student work, the book is designed to serve as a comprehensive and practical handbook for educators. The content of this book is based on our years of experience as public school teachers and informal science educators, and has been endorsed by leading educators at NSTA and major university-level education programs.
The online version of the book is open-access and free to read. You can also buy a hard-copy (paperback/hardback) from the publisher. All author royalties are donated to support scholarships for K-12 outreach programs at the University of Arizona Sky School.



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2 months ago

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SAGE is a free, garden based, outdoor learning curriculum that emphasizes physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption using the plant life cycle as a metaphor for the human body and is designed for 3-5 year old’s at Early Care and Education Centers. SAGE is adaptable and meets NAEYC learning standards.
 
SAGE is organized by topic area into units for presentation, formatting and conceptual ease. And while you could implement the curriculum as presented, units 1-12, what truly makes SAGE unique is its flexibility and adaptability in how you can delivery and implementation it. You can take any activity, song, game, experiment, discussion, any of the material in the curriculum from any of the units and mix and match what, where, and when you present it or incorporate it into what you’re already teaching.


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2 months ago

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The Soybean Science Challenge is an an Arkansas farmer-funded middle and high school education program that seeks to increase student knowledge about the value of soybeans through real-time and on-line education, in-service training, Virtual Field Trips, classroom lab instruction, educational publications, mentoring, and awards for independent student research.
While there are Arkansas-specific reference, this resource can easily be adapted to other regions. The course and challenge components are relevant to Arkansas but the "homegrown" curriculum resources, lesson plans, and virtual field trips can be used by anyone. The "homegrown" curriculum is aligned to Arkansas NGSS-based standards.



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2 months ago

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This e-book is for educators, by educators. Are you new to teaching outdoors? Are you groovin’ along the path, but looking for ideas and inspiration? Maybe you want to fine-tune your advanced practice? Looking to enrich a homeschool program with backyard and garden exploration? Well, this is the guidebook for all of you! (Available as an e-book or a hard copy.)
Part I walks you through the why and how to prepare both mentally and physically for taking lessons outside for learning.
 
Part II focuses on the social and emotional aspects of learning outside and how being outside can nourish the whole child.
 
Part III provides lessons across disciplines that are easy to implement and build on for future lessons. These lessons are designed to take place on school grounds or in community green spaces.
 
Part IV is for those who want more. This section leads the reader to an abundance of resources where they can learn more about outdoor education, find a plethora of curricula and lessons, and learn about other organizations that are supportive of this work.
 
The book is aligned with the TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills), and the NGSS.



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2 months ago

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In these 32 fun digital lessons, PEAS (Partners for Education, Agriculture & Sustainability) sets the stage by providing the background and easy preparation for ready-to-go outdoor inquiry activities. The teacher/facilitator shows a short video and then takes students outdoors to complete the activity.  After the inquiry there are options for science journaling, related social emotional learning activities, and reflections. 
 
Lessons can be completed one per week or consolidated into an immersive unit.
Lesson highlights:
  • Each lesson focuses on a TEKS aligned science activity with SEL and GT extensions!
  • Designed for 1st - 3rd grade students, but can easily be modified up or down.
  • Streamlined materials for easy and quick prep time, so more time can be spent exploring outdoors!

Can be purchased by an individual or for a whole district.


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2 years ago

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Science skills are essential, and we believe nature education is for everyone — so we’ve created ready-to-go lessons and activities to help educators and parents facilitate exploration and learning.

Explore the American Public Garden Association's Plant Heroes resources library of free lessons, journal pages, conservation comics, field guides, and activity books for grades K-5. Find dozens of quality printable exercises and resources on forest health, ecology, and plant conservation.

Resources are available in English, Spanish, and Chinese and some are aligned to NGSS.


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2 years ago

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Project S.O.W. (Seeds of Wonder): Food Gardening with Justice in Mind, a food gardening curriculum for educators who work with young people ages 13-19, centering personal growth, community connection, and equity.

In Project S.O.W., youth work together to investigate how to grow food, explore their relationship with the land and food system, and practice leadership in their communities. Youth discover the power of food gardening to provide their families and communities with fresh and affordable food, and experience firsthand the resilience, confidence, and connection that this time-honored practice brings.

The curriculum has four units, each having three types of group activities: Introductory (shorter length activities that focus on trust, community building, and seeing what the group already knows on a particular topic), Digging In (lengthier activities that explore a topic more deeply and add new information), and Gardening (activities that focus on growing food and garden care). In each unit, we connect activities to New York State Learning Standards and 4-H Life Skills. This curriculum has been created for groups of 6 to 20 participants, yet is adaptable to smaller and larger groups, and can be used in a wide variety of school, afterschool, and community settings. All youth engaged in Project S.O.W. are encouraged to have a food gardening experience. The curriculum has been designed with flexibility to support youth having diverse growing experiences- indoors or outdoors; in containers or the ground. We define a garden as any space that you intentionally cultivate plants.


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2 years ago

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This innovative resource, created in partnership with City Blossoms, is informed by the work of their Youth Entrepreneurship Cooperative (YEC) program. It is complete with templates and tools to support anyone interested in connecting high school youth with gardens and entrepreneurship skill-building.

WHAT YOU WILL FIND INSIDE: This workbook includes in-depth insights from City Blossoms staff, who have committed more than seven years to growing the YEC program. This resource gives insight into City Blossoms' philosophy for: recruiting participants; forming local partnerships; designing a safe and inviting meeting space; and launching a youth-led cooperative business. This workbook is filled with guiding questions to assist others in developing their own unique adaptation of this program.

This workbook is accompanied by a four-part video series. Each session includes guest presenters from farm and garden-based youth entrepreneurship programs across the United States. The series is available in both English and Spanish.


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2 years ago

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Developed by educators at Rooted, this is a short guide to getting started in the garden, for educators looking to begin gardening but overwhelmed by the amount of information out there! Plants Want to Grow includes a guide to climate zone maps, reading seed packets, and transplanting your baby seedlings into the garden. 

Some information in this guide is specific to gardening in Wisconsin but most of the information is applicable to any new or beginner gardener. 


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3 years ago

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School gardens are an integral part of farm to school programs and offer a multitude of educational opportunities. This fact sheet offers steps and considerations for starting a school garden, including: collaboration, goals and design, funding, planting, maintaining, supplies, curriculum and benefits.


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3 years ago

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Celebrating Seasonality: Wisconsin-Grown Recipes for the Early Childhood Setting is a collection of twelve child-friendly recipes for the ECE setting that feature seasonal fruits and vegetables. These fun breakfast, lunch, and snack recipes promote the use of Wisconsin-grown produce in all ECE settings. Recipes are scaled for 8 and 25 servings and include serving sizes for different ages groups and CACFP crediting information. Celebrating Seasonality also includes information to help you find more local foods, a seasonality chart of Wisconsin crops, interviews with Wisconsin farmers, and stories from Wisconsin ECE sites serving local foods.

Celebrating Seasonality in available in both English and Spanish and features universal recipes using produce available in many geographic regions.

Celebrando la estacionalidad: Recetas cultivadas en Wisconsin para el entorno de la primera infancia es una colección de doce recetas para niños en el cuidado y educación temprana (ECE) que incluyen frutas y verduras cultivadas en Wisconsin. Las recetas están escaladas para 8 y 25 porciones e incluyen tamaños de porción para diferentes grupos de edad e información de acreditación del Programa de Alimentos para el Cuidado de Niños y Adultos (CACFP). Celebrando la estacionalidad también incluye información para ayudarle a comprar más alimentos locales, una tabla de estacionalidad de los cultivos de Wisconsin, entrevistas con agricultores de Wisconsin e historias de los sitios de ECE de Wisconsin que sirven alimentos locales.


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3 years ago

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To help grow a classroom of thriving students, the new Junior Master Gardener - Early Childhood Learn, Grow, Eat & Go curriculum combines rich plant/garden learning, food exposure, fun brain- & body-boosting physical activities, AND novel parent/school community engagement in a fun, teacher-friendly format!

Save planning time with this step-by-step, 4 week unit that equips teachers with daily engaging lessons, group activities, and journal prompts that lead your class to create a simple, thriving vegetable garden. Weekly featured songs, literature connections, classroom garden kitchen recipes, innovative family engagement tools, and effective center resources complement learning and maximize benefits to students.

Faculty from Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and University of Nebraska - Lincoln Extension, created this curricula with support from Head Start teachers, kindergarten teachers, and content experts in the field of early childhood development. This multifaceted garden, nutrition, and physical activity curriculum is specially designed for teachers of 4 & 5-year-old children.


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3 years ago

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Learn, Grow, Eat & GO! is a curricula of the International Junior Master Gardener program. Created by Extension faculty/staff, teachers, nutrition and gardening experts, this multifaceted evidenced-based curricula integrates gardening, nutrition, healthy eating and physical activity into an academically rich curricula.

Through a linear set of hands-on, proven lessons, students will gain understand how plants grow and how plants provide for people's needs. The 10-week (2 lessons/week) unit of study will step a class through the process of establishing a garden, growing and eating from the garden, and integrates math, science, reading, and social studies into the curricula. Curricula, classroom sets of student garden journals, and accompanying children's literature books utilized within the curricula are available for purchase through the Junior Master Gardener website. Additionally, sample lessons, garden kitchen recipe videos, individual student garden journal pages, parent support materials and other resources are available for free through the website. 

This curricula was evaluated through a USDA AFRI grant for obesity prevention in children and all content was pilot tested by teachers, volunteers, and youth educators. Details on this longitudinal study and behavioral outcomes can be found on the research section of the website. Content experts related to youth education, horticulture, nutrition, and parenting provided review of content.


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3 years ago

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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.


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3 years ago

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NWF's Schoolyard Habitats Guide will help you plan, build, and maintain your National Wildlife Federation 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.

The National Wildlife Federation is committed to supporting school communities in developing their schoolyard habitats. Whether you’re a teacher, administrator, parent, or community member, we hope this guide will help transform your schoolyard into a vibrant, living resource for learning, health, and community resilience.

This guide is accompanied by a four-part webinar series. 


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3 years ago

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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:

  • 75+ facilitated learning experiences organized around four threads flowing through the seasons: Who Are We?, Who Lives Here?, What’s Happening?, and How Are We Connected?
  • background on the promising practices and approaches to education for sustainability adapted to be developmentally appropriate for early childhood classrooms
  • educator essays sharing their experiences with education for sustainability
  • an appendix packed with handouts to support and extend the learning experiences

Free digital version available or spiral-bound book available for purchase.


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3 years ago

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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.


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3 years ago

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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.


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3 years ago

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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.


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4 years ago

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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 toolkit builds off the successes and safety protocols of four school districts across the United States to provide templates and a step-by-step process to help District Food Services develop their own protocols.

Free digital download of the toolkit available and hard copy available for purchase. 

A five-part webinar series accompanies this toolkit. 


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4 years ago

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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. 

Available in English and Spanish.


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4 years ago

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This free, downloadable curriculum provides high school students with a deep understanding of critical food system issues, empowers them to make healthy and responsible food choices, and encourages them to become advocates for food system change.


In the FoodSpan curriculum, you will find three units with 17 total lessons for Grades 9-12. Each lesson features an introductory warm-up, activities that facilitate a rich exploration of the lesson topic, optional activities, and lesson extensions that can serve as homework assignments or projects.

The curriculum is aligned to national education standards: Next Generation Science Standards, National Council on Social Studies Standards, Common Core English Language Arts Standards, National Health Education Standards, and National Standards for Family and Consumer Sciences Education.

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4 years ago

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Understanding Food and Climate Change: An Interactive Guide
uses video, photography, text, and interactive experiences to help educators, students, and advocates learn how food and climate systems interact and how personal choices canmake a difference. Ideal for grades 6–12 and general audiences, with connections to Next Generation Science Standards and the National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies themes, the guide offers activities for student research and resources for further investigation. The guide is also designed to support self-guided and independent study, and is a boon for advocates seeking hopeful strategies and creative responses.

Available as a free iBook for Mac and iPad users.

A web version is available for all computers and tablets


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4 years ago

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In a garden we are able to cultivate children’s love of learning, their appreciation of healthy food, and their connection to the natural world. With vision, commitment, and some good hard work, educators and families around the globe are ripping up pavement, sowing seeds, and growing garden classrooms because they believe children need to be engaged by hands-on learning in a context that matters to them. They need to know how delicious fresh healthy food can be; and they need to know, right down in their bones, that they are part of a vast and beautiful web of life.

And so, in schoolyards and community spaces across the country, a movement has been born. As a result, new questions have emerged. Chief among them: how do we best use these gardens to achieve our goals and provide children with the best possible experiences? 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, he 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 Environmental Design Lab.


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4 years ago

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Across the United States, a growing number of schools and educational programs are planting gardens, engaging in Farm to School activities, and integrating plant science into the curriculum. To support and expand these hands-on learning activities, schools are exploring ways to build new infrastructure or reinvest in existing facilities such as greenhouses. Unfortunately, many school greenhouses are underutilized or only a single knowledgeable and dedicated teacher is enabling their use.

The United States Botanic Garden, the National Center for Appropriate Technology, and City Blossoms recognized the emerging need for user-friendly guidance on operating these educational greenhouses and maximizing their potential. To that end, we have developed this introductory manual for educators wanting to better use new or existing greenhouses for programming. The manual clearly and concisely lays out a basic understanding of greenhouses, how to integrate them into lessons, and how to effectively use greenhouses in classroom curricula and out-of-school activities. The manual includes lesson plans as well as basic information on layout and operations of a greenhouse, growing plants (especially during the school year), growing from seed, seedling nutrition, identifying and treating disease and pest management in greenhouses, basic budgeting, and succession planting.

This useful resource will help facilitate transformative learning experiences in schools nationwide, while cultivating students' appreciation of the importance of plants.


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4 years ago

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The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation, National Head Start Association and KidsGardening have joined together for the Gro More Good National Head Start Garden Program Initiative to inspire and support the growth of garden programs in early childhood education settings, especially for one million at-risk Head Start children and families across the country.  Our mission is to bring the powerful, life-enhancing benefits of gardens to ECE centers to help the combat some of the most pressing challenges facing today’s youngest generation by improving access to healthy food and increasing time spent outdoors connected to nature.


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4 years ago

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Developed through a partnership between National Farm to School Network, Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation, and KidsGardening, the Exploring Hydroponics curriculum is available to download at no cost.

This guide includes:
  • basic how-to information for growing plants hydroponically in your classroom;
  • lesson plans to help students learn through hands-on investigations;
  • construction plans for simple hydroponics setups; and
  • additional reference materials to support your endeavors.

The lessons are designed to align with third through fifth grade Next Generation Science Standards; however, they can be adapted for both younger and older students and those with different abilities. The lessons are sequenced so that each topic builds upon the previous topics. However, the activities can also be used independently, in any order. Worksheets are available in both English and Spanish.
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4 years ago

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Digging into Soil includes 10 lessons written to help educators use a garden program to teach students about soil. The target audience for Digging into Soil is grades 9 -12 and the activities are linked to high school level Next Generation Science Standards. The lessons can be adapted for middle school ages too and are designed to not only teach students about soil basics, but also to help them understand the important role our soil and soil life plays in our ecosystem and why we must work harder to protect it. Incorporating hands-on activities and extensive projects linked to current events, the goal of this Guide is to make soil real to participating students.

The lessons are flexible enough that they could be implemented with or without a garden program, but being able to see the principles presented play out first hand in the garden is extremely beneficial. Students’ sense of ownership and pride in their garden adds to the motivation to learn about soil health. 

Digging into Soil: A Garden Practicum is an activity guide written by KidsGardening in cooperation with The Lower Sugar River Watershed Association as a complement to the booklet “S” is for Soil.


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