How to Grow a School Garden - Softcover

Bucklin-Sporer, Arden; Pringle, Rachel Kathleen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604690003 ISBN 13: 9781604690002

Verlag: Timber Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

A practical guide to creating a school garden offers strategies, lesson plans, to-do lists, design plans, and recipes to help teachers, parents, and administrators transform a neglected play space into a beautiful and nourishing outdoor classroom.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Arden Bucklin-Sporer is executive director of the San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance, an advocacy organization for school gardens and outdoor classrooms. She is the director of educational gardens for the San Francisco Unified School District, and a founding partner of Bay Tree Design, Inc., a landscape architecture firm. Arden has worked with green schoolyards and public school gardens for over a decade, building an award-winning school garden program as a public school parent and working closely with school districts at the local, state and national level. Her interest in urban agriculture is fueled by her family's organic farm and vineyard in Sonoma County, CA. Arden lives in San Francisco and Sonoma with her husband and three mostly grown sons. Rachel Kathleen Pringle is programs manager for the San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance. She is also the urban school garden liaison for Occidental Arts and Ecology Center's School Garden Teacher Training Program in Sonoma County, California. Rachel has worked in the environmental education field since moving to California in 2002. She has taught in a public school garden, integrating the curriculum into the outdoor classroom and planning events, and has created and led workshops for garden coordinators, parents, and community members while collaborating with local environmental organizations. Before earning a Master's degree in Conservation Biology, Rachel raised cattle and kept a garden while growing up on a small farm in rural Maine.

Von der hinteren Coverseite

“How to Grow a School Garden is a valuable tool for creating rich learning experiences and helping children reconnect to the natural world. The guide is comprehensive yet simple to follow and full of inspirational ideas.” —Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
 
“Finally, it’s here: a practical, concise blueprint for funding, building, planting, and maintaining a school garden. This book should be required reading for any teacher or parent who truly cares about raising a new generation of healthy eaters.” —Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City: the Education of an Urban Farmer
 
“At a time when we are in grave danger of boring our naturally curious children with drill-and-kill memorization, here is a powerful hands-on guide that will make learning come alive in the living laboratories of school gardens. Bravo Arden and Rachel for improving the learning landscape, even as you are promoting our children’s health!” —Delaine Eastin, California Superintendent of Public Instruction
 
Although school gardens may be large or small, they answer kids’ biggest questions: Where does my food come from? Is nature important to me? Can I work with others to make a place that is beautiful and a source of pride? With this book, you can help kids reclaim a piece of neglected play yard and transform it into an ecologically rich garden that nourishes children, parents, teachers, and your community for years to come:

• Plan the project
• Raise funds
• Work with school staff and community
• Design and prepare the space
• Plant and harvest
• Teach in the garden classroom year round
• Cook with students in the garden 

Packed with strategies, to-do lists, detailed lesson plans, easy recipes, and tricks of the trade for grades K–8, this is the complete school-gardens handbook for parents, teachers, and administrators.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Timber Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1604690003
• ISBN 13: 9781604690002
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Timber Press; https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/imprint/workman-publishing-company/timber-press/; ; Ste. 450 133 SW 2nd Avenue; Portland; OR; 97204; USA
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar