Charlottesville City Schools
Annie Evans, Curriculum coordinator at Charlottesville City schools - [email protected]
Venable Garden Committee
Jennifer Esser - Chair of Venable's Garden committee and City Schoolyard Garden's representative.
Jennifer will offer help and resources in any garden project you would like to initiate with the children. [email protected]
Traci Martin - PE teacher currently incorporates gardening into her health wellness and fitness programme. Contact to see the status of the garden and to know what your children are doing with her.enable
Jennifer will offer help and resources in any garden project you would like to initiate with the children. [email protected]
Traci Martin - PE teacher currently incorporates gardening into her health wellness and fitness programme. Contact to see the status of the garden and to know what your children are doing with her.enable
City Schoolyard Garden
Jeanette Abi Nader, Executive Director:
Emily Axelbaum, Garden Educator, manages and teachers in the garden at Buford, and always available for school garden advise and suggestions.
Both are contactable through the CSG website:
*CSG are currently developing curriculum based lessons for our schools. Contact Emily Axelbaum for more information.*
Emily Axelbaum, Garden Educator, manages and teachers in the garden at Buford, and always available for school garden advise and suggestions.
Both are contactable through the CSG website:
*CSG are currently developing curriculum based lessons for our schools. Contact Emily Axelbaum for more information.*
Granny's Garden School
Granny's Garden School
Is a fantastic website with curriculum based garden lessons for K through 4, organized by season.
Click on the name or logo to find the site.
Is a fantastic website with curriculum based garden lessons for K through 4, organized by season.
Click on the name or logo to find the site.
Life Lab
Life Lab Science Program is a California-based nonprofit organization that promotes garden based learning. It's web site welcomes educators and children and families. Life Lab maintains the lists of garden lessons and resources for Pre-K through 6th grade.
Click on the name or logo to find the site.
And further to page: curriculum and activities
Click on the name or logo to find the site.
And further to page: curriculum and activities
California school garden network
This page opens at a searchable list of mostly free online resources, where you can find lessons related to garden-based learning.
Click on the name or logo to find the site.
Click on the name or logo to find the site.
Our Growing Place (Free Resource)
(sourced from NYC growtolearn.org website)
Our Growing Place is an easy-to-follow toolkit for instructors who want to gain gardening and kitchen skills. There are 40 ready-made lessons to teach students about growing, cooking and enjoying healthy food. To help get you started, each written lesson comes with a short video of an instructor demonstrating the lesson with students. For virtual “classes” on basic garden and kitchen skills click on "Terms & Techniques” to watch an expert plant seeds, transplant, harvest, peel, chop, zest and more! Go to Our Growing Place.
Our Growing Place is an easy-to-follow toolkit for instructors who want to gain gardening and kitchen skills. There are 40 ready-made lessons to teach students about growing, cooking and enjoying healthy food. To help get you started, each written lesson comes with a short video of an instructor demonstrating the lesson with students. For virtual “classes” on basic garden and kitchen skills click on "Terms & Techniques” to watch an expert plant seeds, transplant, harvest, peel, chop, zest and more! Go to Our Growing Place.
Agriculture in the Classroom (Free Resource) - Click on the name
(sourced from NYC growtolearn.org website)
The Agriculture in the Classroom National Resource Directory is an online searchable database that lists hundreds of educational resources designed to help educators locate high quality classroom materials and information to increase agricultural literacy among their Pre-K through 12th grade students.
The Agriculture in the Classroom National Resource Directory is an online searchable database that lists hundreds of educational resources designed to help educators locate high quality classroom materials and information to increase agricultural literacy among their Pre-K through 12th grade students.
Online lessons for PreK-6th Grades
(sourced from NYC growtolearn.org website)
Schoolyard to Market Curriculum (Free Resource)
(sourced from NYC growtolearn.org website)
This is a step-by-step curriculum guide that will direct students on how to develop a planting plan, nurture crops in the school garden, harvest the crop, and take it to market to sell. It is a 16-week program. This is a California curriculum, but could certainly be adapted for a New York City school garden. Go toSan Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance.
This is a step-by-step curriculum guide that will direct students on how to develop a planting plan, nurture crops in the school garden, harvest the crop, and take it to market to sell. It is a 16-week program. This is a California curriculum, but could certainly be adapted for a New York City school garden. Go toSan Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance.
Kids Gardening, of the National Gardening Association
A website with great links to classroom projects and book resources
Center for Ecoliteracy, Berkeley CA
Edible Schoolyard
CA Department of Education, Sacramento, CA
"A Child's Gardens of Standards" Linking school gardens to CA Education Standards, Grades 2-6. A downloadable .pdf
National Farm to School
Boston Schoolyard Initiative
www.schoolyards.org
Real School Gardens, Ft Worth, TX
Professional Development
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond VA
Offers workshops through the year. For a complete list of workshops look on their website under the Adult Education link or use the buttons below.
Register online, at www.lewisginter.org, or by phone at 804-262-9887 ext. 322.
* They would like know if there are particular topics you’d like to see offered that will help you in the classroom and schoolyard as they develop their spring and summer schedule *.
Contact:
Kristi Orcutt
Children’s Garden Program Developer
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
1800 Lakeside Avenue, Richmond, Va 23228
(804) 262-9887 ext 239
Register online, at www.lewisginter.org, or by phone at 804-262-9887 ext. 322.
* They would like know if there are particular topics you’d like to see offered that will help you in the classroom and schoolyard as they develop their spring and summer schedule *.
Contact:
Kristi Orcutt
Children’s Garden Program Developer
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
1800 Lakeside Avenue, Richmond, Va 23228
(804) 262-9887 ext 239
See what other schools are doing check out these websites:
Cambridge, Massachusetts:
http://www.citysprouts.org/about-us
New York City:
http://growtolearn.org/
Lexington: Roots and Shoots:
http://www.rootsnshoots.info/
Alice Waters: Edible Schoolyard Project
http://edibleschoolyard.org
FB http://The Edible Schoolyard Project
http://www.citysprouts.org/about-us
New York City:
http://growtolearn.org/
Lexington: Roots and Shoots:
http://www.rootsnshoots.info/
Alice Waters: Edible Schoolyard Project
http://edibleschoolyard.org
FB http://The Edible Schoolyard Project
BOOKS
Kids Gardening, of the National Gardening Association. Has a great books for curriculum ideas based around the garden books
Life Lab Curriculum books and activity guides.
The Growing Classroom- Garden based science. By Roberta Jaffe & Gary Appel - via Life Lab (above)
"LIFE - Linking food and the environment" - Curriculum series - Columbia Teachers College, Columbia Universityhttp://blogs.tc.columbia.edu/cfe/education/nutrition-curriculum/
Life Lab Curriculum books and activity guides.
The Growing Classroom- Garden based science. By Roberta Jaffe & Gary Appel - via Life Lab (above)
"LIFE - Linking food and the environment" - Curriculum series - Columbia Teachers College, Columbia Universityhttp://blogs.tc.columbia.edu/cfe/education/nutrition-curriculum/
