Showing posts with label farm to school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farm to school. Show all posts

Planting Gold with Potatoes Science and Social Studies Connections

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I like to start with a book called What's For Lunch...Potatoes by Claire Llewellyn.  Planting Potatoes is a great way to show your s...

Garden Weeds Otherwise Known As Problems In Your Garden

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Planting a garden hasn't been all rainbows and unicorns! There are a lot of problems that can come up when you plant a school garden wit...

School Gardens In The Summer: Tips For Maintaining

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Our school has had a school garden for fives years! I am the lovely facilitator of that garden...I say that because it is not MY garden...it...
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Sustainability and The Three R's

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This isn't new to us at our school...teaching about sustainability, energy, or even reducing, reusing, and recycling. We are a Green and...

Let's Get Growing...Five Ways To Grow With Your Students

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It is that time of year at our school...garden time! We were the proud recipients of a Farm to School Grant five years ago and we are still ...

Earth Day: Planting a Seed with Three Easy Steps

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Wanting to teach about Earth Day, but don't know where to get started? First, don't just jump on the bandwagon without knowing a li...
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Plugging Into Environmental Education

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 I was asked last week about the importance of environmental education and why I spend the effort in my science classes teaching students ab...

Let's Get Growing

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It's my favorite time of year, planting season. Time to get our kinder-gardeners learning how to plant seeds so that when they are BIG f...

What's Up Doc? Carrots!!!!

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Our kindergartners are finishing up their senses activities. Why not use our school garden to teach all five senses! We used our five sens...