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Selecting a Hydroponic System for Your Classroom A webinar to help educators interested in starting a hydroponic garden select the system that best fits their needs and resources.About the Webinar Hydroponic gardening is a great alternative for educators who are short...
Youth gardens are such wonderful spaces for kids to build community, self-confidence, and so much more. The GroMoreGood Grassroots Grant, brought to you by The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation and KidsGardening, is designed to bring the life-enhancing benefits of gardens...
In 2015, Abraxas Continuation High School in Poway, CA, began a school garden by transforming a rarely used tennis court into a thriving outdoor classroom. Teacher Bob Lutticken and several colleagues worked with students to build 40 raised beds (covering half of the...
Sow it, grow it, eat it, know it! This is the motto of Classroom in Bloom, a one-and-a-half acre non-profit educational garden in Washington State’s Methow Valley. The organization is dedicated to deepening the connection between people and the land through school and...
This book includes comprehensive information to help you in successfully raising vegetables, flowers, and herbs to maturity in the classroom along with ideas for creative classroom projects and interdisciplinary activity ideas to help you integrate the garden into your curriculum.
Students explore a variety of plant-derived aromatic substances, reflect on the memories and feelings they evoke, and describe them. Next, as they try to taste without using their sense of smell, they begin to grasp the importance of this remarkable adaptation. They also learn that scents provide plants with a way to communicate, aid in reproduction and seed dispersal, and protect themselves.
The best advice for good nutrition? Eat a rainbow by including lots of different kinds of fruits and vegetables in a wide variety of colors in your diet.
There are so many delicious vegetable and herbs to choose from that deciding which ones to grow may be one of the hardest parts of gardening! Here are some times for choosing varieties.
Students can use their gardening savvy as a springboard for green business ventures.
At Borah High School in Boise, Idaho, what started as an outdoor space for science lessons has transformed into a thriving school garden, orchard, and gathering space, all sustained by a dedicated club of students and their advisors known as the Borah Green Team. “The...