School Gardens
Youth Gardens – using gardening as a vehicle for encouraging children to make good food choices, augmenting classroom studies with experiential learning, building a love of nature stimulating social interaction, facilitating cultural exchange, and more.
- View data from 2010 that quantifies the benefits of school and youth gardens.
Children’s Gardens in Which to Learn and Grow – OSU - creates a template through which elementary educators could work with their communities to develop a children’s garden.
Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom – helps familiarize Oklahoma school children with Oklahoma’s number one industry – the food and fiber industry. Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom curriculum features lessons for grades Pre-K through 8th grade. The lessons use agricultural topics and age-related activities to reinforce core skills in Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Visual Arts and Music.
Nutrition in the Garden, The Department of Horticulture Sciences Texas A&M University – a garden provides a site for hands-on lessons about fruits and vegetables, important components of our diet. Gardens are exciting, interactive ways to demonstrate life skills and to develop good habits.
A Garden in Every School, California Department of Education – promotes linkages among the school classroom, school cafeteria, local agriculture, waste management and others.
School Garden Wizard – offers wonderful, creative space in which children of all abilities can achieve something real that is valued by others. A School Garden requires a child’s intellectual, emotional and social engagement with things that must be measured, counted, weighed, arranged, planed and cared for.
