Media: Book
Pub Date: 1998
Target Audience: Teachers, parents, community workers
Description: This how-to guide is for teachers, parents, and community workers who want to create children's gardens linked to a community's heritage. Includes photos, case studies of successful children's gardens, curriculum activities, and sample garden designs.
Time/Length: 141
Number of Copies: 1

1 Copy

Media: Book
Target Audience: K-8
Pub Date: 2006
Description: Extensive information teacher and students need to know about indoor gardening, including setting up the garden, planning and planting, choosing vegetables, herbs, and flowers to grow indoors, maintaining a healthy growing environment, tackling pests and other problems, and conducting special gardening projects.
Time/Length: 112 pages
Number of Copies: 1

1 Copy

Developed by the National Gardening Association and written and field-tested by educators, this complete curriculum uses fun, illustrated activities to explore plant life cycles, examine plant diversity, and investigate the interdependence of plants, humans, and other living and nonliving things. K-8

1 Copy

Title: The Growing Classroom
Media: Book, Training Resource
Target Audience: Grade 2-6
Description: A teacher's manual featuring step-by-step instructions and strategies for setting up a garden-based science program and outdoor classroom activities. Topics include planning a garden laboratory, facilitating investigative lessons on ecology and nutrition, and involving the community.

1 Copy

Media: Book
Target Audience: Grades 4-6
Pub Date: 2007
Description: Learning science through the study of our fascinating food production system. Students learn about cycles in nature, flow of energy, and food systems while engaging in hands-on investigations of photosynthesis, food webs, agriculture, and more. Includes teacher lesson plans, background information, teaching tips, and tools for assessment; student activity sheets and readings; and a matrix mapping the book to National Science Education Standards and Benchmarks for Science Literacy.
Time/Length: 256 pages
Number of Copies: 1

1 Copy

Packed with basic gardening information that includes growing techniques, food safety, healthy eating tips, and nutritious snack food preparation. This book is a great tool for educators who use garden programs to teach students about health, nutrition, food safety, and wise decision-making skills. Grades 3-5.

1 Copy

Media: Book
Publ Date: 2003
Description: Guide offers 45 experiential activities that help children understand more about nutrition, agriculture, and recycling.
Audience: K-6, Educators
Time/Length: 256 pgs
Copies: 2

1 Copy

Media: Book
Target Audience: Parents & Teachers, Administrators
Pub Date: 2010
Description: Practical, concise blueprint for funding, building, planting, maintaining a school garden. Packed with strategies, to-do lists, detailed lesson plans, easy recipes and tricks of the trade for grades k-8, this is complete school gardens handbook for parents, teachers, and administrators.
Time/Length: 223
Number of Copies: 1

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Media: Book
Pub Date: 2008
Description: This book features details on ensuring sustainability, and profiles of model school- and district-based initiatives of all sizes and flavors. It also outlines novel and systematic strategies for developing food education programs, from schoolyard gardens and classroom cooking lessons to districtwide farm-to-cafeteria programs that bring local produce to the lunch line.
Time/Length: 88
Number of Copies: 1

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Title: The Vegetables We Eat
Media: Book
Target Audience: Ages 4-10
Description: Learn how vegetables are planted, how they get to your grocery store, and how you can plant and tend your own vegetable garden. Uses clear and informative text, illustrations, diagrams, and cross sections.

2 Copies