Garden of Learning
Purchasing
The material is extremely practical. It includes three main sections:
The Garden System. The Owner’s Manual goes into great detail on how to organize, get started and keep going. Support documents for kicking off your program. It maps out what you have to do, step by step. And it answers the hard questions, like how to decide which classes get to plant where, how the scheduling needs to work, the materials you will need and where to get them, etc.
A Year in the Garden. Our curriculum has a school year’s worth of lessons presented loosely in sequence of a typical school year.
Some are essentially academic; others are labor intensive, getting the jobs of a real organic garden done. Some have grade level worksheets, and require students to do some writing, math, observations, data collecting or microscopic work.
On the back page of our lesson plans you’ll find “A Gardener’s Notes” page. These are in-depth directions and suggestions about the lesson, written for the Garden Coordinators. They’re also a handy place to put your own notes, or simply record things you’ll do differently next time.
Garden of Learning also offers individual lesson plans to build on the program from year to year, for example; a different worm lesson to rebuild your Worm Motel, a new Jeopardy game, a new insect microscopic study, etc. Each year your school can purchase a new set of Garden of Learning lesson plans to keep your program fresh. Having said that, we strongly encourage schools, once they get up and running, to add to their own lesson plans by inventing them, or by drawing upon the wealth of good garden curriculum that is out there. And as we develop new ones at Garden of Learning, we’ll continue to make them available.
Farmer’s Market. A framework for oraganizing a Farmer’s Maket. The material also includes sample documents, newsletter, invitation, sign up sheet and more.
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materials will be emailed to you as Acrobat PDF documents.
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Garden
of Learning
Garden System
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Garden
System Includes:
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- Owner’s Manual
(A framework for organizing and operating Garden of Learning)
- Three Step Process
(A checklist for kicking off your program)
- Garden Participation Form
(A document to use when starting your program)
- A Call for Garden Organizers
(A letter to send home with your students to gather help in organizing your garden program)
- Help! Garden Parents Wanted
(A letter to pass out at Back to School night for recruiting Garden Parents)
- Students Bloom this Year
(A letter to your families about your new Garden of Learning program)
- Garden Signs
(A list of signs to direct traffic to the proper plots to work in)
- Garden Rules
(A list of rules to post in your garden to encourage good behavior)
- Tool Rules
(A list of tool rules to post in the garden shed)
- Best Practices
(Some important discoveries that we’ve made along the way)
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- Shed
(Your shed is “Garden Central” for coordinating a school wide garden program)
- Supplies for the Shed
(A list for stocking the shed with some essentials)
- Garden of Learning Philosophy
(inspirational words, to use as needed)
- Garden Bulletin
(a sample monthly garden bulletin)
- Back to the Garden
(a sample school newsletter)
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Garden System
$150.00
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Garden
of Learning
Farmer's M arket
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Farmer's
Market Includes: |
- Farmer’s Market
(A framework for organizing a Farmer’s Market. The material also includes sample documents, newsletter, invitation, sign up sheet and more.)
- Silent Auction
(A bid sheet for holding a silent Auction)
- Market Help Wanted!
(A letter to gather help in organizing your Farmer’s Market)
- Invitation
(A invitation to your Farmer’s Market)
- Seed Packages
(sample seed packaging)
- Worm Box
(A recipe on how to build a worm bin to give to visitors during your market)
- Open House
(A article about the Farmer’s Market to put in your school newsletter)
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Garden
of Learning
Curriculum
A Year in the Garden
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Lesson
Plans Include: |
- A Good Ol’ Fashioned Hoe Down (Basic Garden Science)
- Garden of Learning Journals (Language Arts/Math/Science)
- Float Like a Butterfly (Science)
Butterfly Jeopardy (Science)
- Diggin’ the Doo (Basic Garden Science)
- Lettuce Begin (Basic Garden Science)
- Pumpkin Einstein’s (Math/Science)
- Just Like the Lupine Lady (Language Arts/ Science)
- Can I Have a Blanket? (Basic Garden Science)
- Worm Diner (Science/Math)
- The Soil Ecosystem (Science/Language Arts)
- Soil in Focus (Science/Language Arts)
- Mosaic Stepping Stones Part l (Arts and Crafts)
- Mosaic Stepping Stones Part ll (Arts and Crafts)
- To Market We Will Go, Part I (Economics/Arts and Crafts/Language Arts)
- Worm Traveler (Science/Language Arts/Math)
- Ecosystem Evaluation (Science/Language Arts)
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- Ecosystem Jeopardy (Science)
- Once There Was a Little Old Ant (Science)
- Life in an Ant House (Science/Language Arts)
- Spring Cleaning (Basic Garden Science)
- Mother’s Little Pansies, Part I (Arts and Crafts)
- That’s Why the Lady is a Bug: (Science/Language Arts)
- Bunny Brunch (Basic Garden Science/Nutrition)
- It’s Moving Day (Economics/Basic Garden Science)
- To Market We Will Go, Part II (Basic Garden Science/Economics)
- Mother’s Little Pansies, Part II (Arts and Crafts)
- We Need Some Air Down Here! (Basic Garden Science)
- Falling Into Next Year’s Crop (Basic Garden Science)
- Honeydew, Honey Don’t (Basic Garden Science)
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Garden
of Learning
Curriculum, Year 2
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Lesson
Plans Include: |
- Seedy Start: (Basic Garden Science)
- A, B, Seed: (Language Arts/Science)
- A Good Ol’ Fashioned Hoe Down (Basic Garden Science)
- I Never Metamorphosis I Didn’t Like: (Science)
- A Scarecrow in the Classroom: (Language Arts)
- Diggin’ the Doo: (Basic Garden Science)
- Lettuce Begin: (Basic Garden Science)
- Like, Totally Tuberous, Dude!, Part l: (Language Arts/
Science)
- Check in Time: (Science)
- Worm Jeopardy: (Science)
- Can I Have a Blanket?: (Basic Garden Science)
- Near and Dear: (Science)
- Mosaic Pots, Part l: (Arts and Crafts)
- Mosaic Pots, Part ll: (Arts and Crafts)
- Incredible Edibles: (Science/Language Arts/Nutrition)
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- To Market We Will Go, Part I: (Economics/Arts and Crafts/Language
Arts)
- Check Out Time: (Science)
- A,B,C of Bees: (Science)
- Honeybee Jeopardy: (Science)
- Like, Totally Tuberous, Dude!, Part ll: (Language Arts/Science)
- Mother’s Little Pansies, Part I: (Arts and Crafts)
- Spring Cleaning: (Basic Garden Science)
- I Still Never Metamorphosis I Didn’t Like, Part
ll: (Science)
- X Marks the Spot: (Science)
- It’s Moving Day: (Economics/Basic Garden Science)
- To Market We Will Go, Part II: (Basic Garden Science/Economics)
- Mother’s Little Pansies, Part II: (Arts and Crafts)
- We Need Some Air Down Here!: (Basic Garden Science)
- Falling Into Next Year’s Crop: (Basic Garden Science)
- The Garden Path: (Basic Garden Science)
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