Growing Together: Open Forum

Hi! Hoping to see many of you at our next Community Chat on Tuesday 2/21 at 3PM ET to discuss making curricular connections in school gardens! 

This Chat topic is great for anyone with questions or lots of experience to share related to integrating school gardens with curriculum as a way to make academic connections, encourage more teachers to utilize the garden, gain administrative support, and so much more. We can talk about state standards, subject-related activities, building teacher confidence, and anything else you want to ask about or share. 

All Community members are welcome to join! 

More info and link to register

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Amelia Dupuis
Kids Garden Community Manager
KidsGardening
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Thank you to everyone who attended yesterday's Community Chat and shared so many ideas for making curricular connections in school gardens and supporting teachers to use the garden space! I felt like we barely scratched the surface so please continue to ask any questions you have or share ideas here.

The recording of the Community Chat is attached and below are the time stamps and a list of some of the resources that were shared.

Resources supporting the benefits of school gardens and evaluating your own garden program:

• What Grows in School Gardens

• Data collection model

Curriculum resources:

• Junior Master Gardener

• Identifying NGSS standards

• Old workshop from Jenna with some standards-based lessons examples

• The Growing Classroom

• FoodCorps Lessons

• Ag in the Classroom Curriculum Matrix

• Growing Healthy Habits

Other resources:

• Life Lab-Certified School Garden Educator program - professional development opportunity from Life Lab with certification through 4 courses

• Project Seasons – this Shelburne Farms resource has many ideas for teaching in the winter with activities organized by season

• Old presentation shared by Jenna with some winter gardening ideas

Time Stamps for the Recording:

15:30 – Ideas for making successful school gardens when growing season is over the summer

26:55 – Tips for gardening with toddlers

33:50 – How to get more buy-in and participation from teachers and admin/addressing hesitations

46:20 – Lessons and activities and where to find some

56:05 – Things that have worked well to get started with making curricular connections

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Amelia Dupuis
Kids Garden Community Manager
KidsGardening

Original Message:
Sent: 02-17-2023 09:49:23 AM
From: Amelia Dupuis
Subject: Community Chat: Curricular Connections

Hi! Hoping to see many of you at our next Community Chat on Tuesday 2/21 at 3PM ET to discuss making curricular connections in school gardens! 

This Chat topic is great for anyone with questions or lots of experience to share related to integrating school gardens with curriculum as a way to make academic connections, encourage more teachers to utilize the garden, gain administrative support, and so much more. We can talk about state standards, subject-related activities, building teacher confidence, and anything else you want to ask about or share. 

All Community members are welcome to join! 

More info and link to register

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Amelia Dupuis
Kids Garden Community Manager
KidsGardening
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