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. Many educators want to use their school garden as a place-based, outdoor classroom, but lack the time to synthesize the various available resources into a whole-school and cohesive program. This resource 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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Why is this book important?
In an age where many children are growing disconnected from nature, where farmland is being saturated with chemicals, where global climate is unpredictable and extreme, and where wild habitats are being replaced by suburban development, our communities need creative solutions and innovators to a changing world. 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, cultivating citizens and changemakers in the next generations.
We accomplish this by engaging children in ecosystems and creating spaces for cooperative ownership and interaction. We provide opportunities to practice community-building, creative problem-solving, a healthy lifestyle, stewardship, craftsmanship, and engagement in nature through science. Gardens are a powerful place to learn these valuable skills and foster strong environmental literacy. Children who participate in garden education and The School Garden Curriculum develop personal responsibility and craftsmanship, as well as an ethic of global citizenship and environmental stewardship.
We accomplish this by engaging children in ecosystems and creating spaces for cooperative ownership and interaction. We provide opportunities to practice community-building, creative problem-solving, a healthy lifestyle, stewardship, craftsmanship, and engagement in nature through science. Gardens are a powerful place to learn these valuable skills and foster strong environmental literacy. Children who participate in garden education and The School Garden Curriculum develop personal responsibility and craftsmanship, as well as an ethic of global citizenship and environmental stewardship.