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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. #Guides #MiddleSchool #HighSchool #Adult #Environment #Soil ...
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...
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...
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...