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gardens can provide one of the most immediate and satisfying way for students
to encounter and learn about nature. And what other school activity requires
kids to get dirty?
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Master Gardener Program,
University of California Extension Services
1553 Berger Drive, Building 1
San José, CA 95112
(408) 299-2638
(408) 282-3105 Monday to Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
(650) 329-1356 Fridays only from 1-4 p.m. except in winter
Email your questions at www.mastergardeners.org/email.html
www.mastergardeners.org/links.html
www.mastergardeners.org/scc.html
Gardening Hotline and tips, videos and publications,
classes for elementary, secondary and high schools, diagnosis, events, and
expert advice providing
answers to gardening questions. Staffed by Master Gardeners who are trained
volunteers.
Master Composters
Home Composting Education Program
County of Santa Clara
1553 Berger Dr. Building 1
San Jose, Ca 95112
Rotline: (408) 918-4640
Sarah.Smith@aem.sccgov.org
Compost@aem.sccgov.org
www.reducewaste.org
Offers compost
bins with worms, initial trainings, ongoing assistance, and follow-up visits
to check bin health.
A Child’s Garden of Standards
www.cde.ca.gov/re/pn/fd/documents/childsgarden.pdf
California Department of Education’s 112 page guide linking School Gardens
to California Education Standards including specific activities for standards
in science, history, social science, mathematics, and English – language
arts for Grades Two through Six. Based on former Superintendent of Schools’ Delaine
Eastin’s 2003 call for a garden in every California school.
Greening Public Schoolyards
www.sfbeautiful.org/civic_initiatives/greeningpublicschoolyards.html
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Page on-line Resource Directory for the Bay Area.
The Watershed Project
1327 South 46th Street
155 Richmond Field Station
Richmond, CA 94804
(510) 665-3546
info@thewatershedproject.org
www.thewatershedproject.org/default/
The
Watershed Project offers workshops on gardens, creeks, and healthy alternatives
to commonly used toxic products for teachers, youth group leaders, camp counselors,
and anyone who works with school age children. All curricula are correlated
to California standards. Full day school garden workshops include Kids in
Gardens, Green Schools, Green Gardens - Healthy Schools Inside & Out, Garden
Day. Half day workshops include Compost: Green Waste to Gardener's Gold, Getting
Started Garden Design, Groceries from the Garden, Watching for Wildlife,
More
than your Standard Garden.
Life Lab Science Program
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Phone: (831) 459-2001
www.lifelab.org
The Garden Classroom & the
CASFS Farm are open every day of the year 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Since 1979,
Life Lab Science Program has been supporting
science and garden-based education through publications, professional development,
and innovative programs. The organization helps schools develop gardens where
children can create "living laboratories" for the study of the
natural world. Numerous school garden workshops are offered: Creating Gardens
for Learning,
the Growing Classroom, and more. Life Lab along with the UC Santa Cruz
Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems co-manages the two-acre
Garden
Classroom overlooking the Monterey Bay. In the Garden Classroom teachers
and students learn about plants, nutrition, nature, weather, organic gardening,
life cycles and decomposition. The site features many different learning
areas
including a wildlife habitat, plant petting zoo, outdoor kitchen, fruiting
trees and bushes, vegetable food crops, a pond and Rot Zone.
Roots and Shoots Garden
www.rootsnshoots.info/handbook.asp
Step-by-step
200 page guide includes:
- A notebook binder format for easy duplication
of materials and addition of your own ideas.
- 200+ pages of useful, how-to
information, detailed lesson plans for each grade covering natural science,
literature, music, art, and math, with templates
and samples for class projects and publicity pieces.
- Detailed designs,
planting, equipment and structures for each of the seven theme gardens.
- Suggestions
for ways to involve school staff, students, volunteers, and community
organizations.
- Ways to get started, how to recruit and train volunteers, fund raising
strategies, and how to create effective publicity.
San Francisco Beautiful
www.sfbeautiful.org/civic_initiatives/greeningpublicschoolyards.html
Contains
a 2006 Green Schoolyard Alliance Resource Directory with information
to help communities green their school grounds
while
providing hands-on
learning opportunities for children.
KidsGardening.Com –
National Gardening Association
www.kidsgardening.com/
Free e-newsletter, grants, Resource Directory, online Teachers’ Course,
Parents’ Primer, classroom stories and activities, School Greenhouse
Guide, curricula, awards, and much more.
Plant a Salad Garden
teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/ect/saladgar.htm
Classroom activity for ages 4-5, for children to develop science concepts,
language, and social skills as they work together to plant a container vegetable
garden.
Plant a Garden, Help a Child Grow –
From National Wildlife Federation
www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueID=107&articleID=1354
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Tips for developing a child’s green thumb and appreciation
of nature.
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