The School Garden Curriculum provides a unique K-8th grade gardening activity plan and over 200 weekly lessons that weave science, permaculture, and environmental education into place-based and immersive learning. With this program, children will be inspired to live out an environmental and social ethic of stewardship that the world needs.
This book is the resource that teachers, garden educators, parents, volunteers, school admin, and support staff need the begin and enhance their school-wide gardening initiatives.
It provides the framework for schools to build garden education and greater environmental literacy in their schools while integrating it into the community through science, stewardship, healthy lifestyles, and life skills.
It provides the framework for schools to build garden education and greater environmental literacy in their schools while integrating it into the community through science, stewardship, healthy lifestyles, and life skills.
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"We need students to learn and engage in a new land ethic that inspires Care for Self, Care for Others, and Care for the Land..."
The School Garden Curriculum guides communities to cultivate a paradigm-shifting garden education and provides tangible lessons and yields that they can build into their own unique program. It fosters a culture of gardening and child-land relationships through hands-on activities, discovery, and critical-thinking.
By partnering science, permaculture ethics, systems studies, and environmental education into place-based and immersive learning, children will be inspired to a land ethic that our world so desperately needs. |
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The School Garden Curriculum includes:
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