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.
ALL SALES
ARE FINAL.
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
Curriculum, 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.)
- The Soil Ecosystem (Science)
- Soil in Focus: (Science.)
- Mosaic Stepping Stones Part l: (Arts and Crafts.)
- Mosaic Stepping Stones Part ll.: (Arts and Crafts.)
- To Market We Will Go, Part I: (Arts and Crafts.)
- Worm Traveler: (Science/Language Arts.)
- Ecosystem Evaluation ( Science)
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- Ecosystem Jeopardy (Science)
- Once There Was a Little Old Ant (Science)
- Life in an Ant House (Science)
- Spring Cleaning: (Basic Gardening/ Science.)
- Mother’s Little Pansies, Part I: (Arts and Crafts.)
- That’s Why the Lady is a Bug: (Science.)
- Bunny Brunch: (Basic Gardening/Nutrition)
- It’s Moving Day: (Basic Gardening and Economics.)
- This Little Cabbage Went to Market, Part II: (Basic Gardening
and 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 Gardening.)
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Curriculum,
Year 1
$250.00
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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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Curriculum,
Year 2
$250.00
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