Garden of Learning
Purchasing
Garden of Learning will offer several
packages containing a school year’s worth of lessons. These packages
are put together to build on the program from year to year, for example
each package will have a new 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 package of lesson plans to keep your program
fresh.
All of Garden of Learning lesson plans come with background
information. 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.
These Garden of Learning lesson plans are presented
loosely in sequence of a typical school year. Garden Coordinators should
feel free to manipulate the sequence and the lessons themselves to fit
each school’s particular needs and circumstances..
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.
All purchased
materials will be emailed to you as Acrobat PDF documents.
Allow two business days for materials to arrive.
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)
- Best Practices (Some important discoveries that we've made along the way)
- 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)
- Tool Rules (A list of tool rules to post in the garden shed)
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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 list of rules to post in the garden shed)
- 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)
- 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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Farmer's Market
$50.00
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Garden
of Learning
Year 1
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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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Year
1
$250.00
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