School Gardening 101: Session 1
Session 1: Initiating a School Garden
Session 1 serves as an introduction to the processes and skills necessary to establish a school garden. School garden practitioners must evaluate their campuses to create gardens that are safe, accessible, functional, practical, and provide an environment that will support teaching and learning.
Download Resources Below:
- Lesson Topic: Mapping the Garden
- Lesson Topic: Persuasive Writing in the Garden
- Tip Sheet: Site Assessment
- Tip Sheet: School Garden Tools
- Tip Sheet: Managing Groups of Children in a Garden Setting
- Tip Sheet: School Garden Rules
- Teacher Exercise: Infrastructure Challenge
- Teacher Resource: Curriculum Challenge
- Teacher Resource: The Basics of Botany