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| gardening in early childhood education: Gardening with Children Monika Hanneman, Patricia Hulse, Brian Johnson, Barbara Kurland, Tracey Patterson, 2015-09 Brooklyn Botanic Garden--home of the oldest continuously operating children's garden in North America--offers a groundbreaking handbook that helps parents, teachers, and community gardeners introduce kids to the pleasures of gardening. In addition to growing common plants from seed, children will become more aware of nature's cycles and earth's ecology, and enjoy a variety of fun projects. |
| gardening in early childhood education: The Garden Classroom Cathy James, 2015-04-07 Creative ways to use the garden to inspire learning, for kids ages 4-8 Packed with garden-based activities that promote science, math, reading, writing, imaginative play, and arts and crafts, The Garden Classroom offers a whole year of outdoor play and learning ideas—however big or small your garden. Every garden offers children a rich, sensory playground, full of interesting things to discover and learn about. There's a whole lot of science happening right before their eyes. The garden can also be a place to develop math and literacy skills, as the outdoors offers up plenty of invitations to weave learning into everyday gardening. The garden classroom is a place where plants grow, and where children grow too. |
| gardening in early childhood education: Gardening with Young Children Sara Starbuck, Marla Olthof, Karen Midden, 2014-05-13 This updated how-to resource guides teachers—with or without green thumbs—through the rich learning opportunities found in gardening with children. |
| gardening in early childhood education: The Gardener and the Carpenter Alison Gopnik, 2016-08-09 Alison Gopnik, a ... developmental psychologist, [examines] the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective-- |
| gardening in early childhood education: Early Sprouts Karrie Kalich, Dottie Bauer, Deirdre McPartlin, 2009-04-01 To counteract the prevalence of childhood obesity and to establish lifelong healthy eating habits, this research-based early childhood curriculum is designed to increase children’s preferences for nutritious fruits and vegetables. The tested “seed-to-table” approach will engage preschoolers in all aspects of planting, growing, and eating organically grown foods. Also included are recipes children can help prepare and ways to involve the whole family in making healthy food choices. These activities can be tailored to fit any early childhood program, climate, or geographical region. |
| gardening in early childhood education: Grow It, Try It, Like it United States. Food and Nutrition Service, 2009 Grow It, Try It, Like It! Preschool Fun with Fruits and Vegetables is a garden-themed nutrition education kit for child care center staff that introduces children to: three fruits - peaches, strawberries, and cantaloupe, and three vegetables - spinach, sweet potatoes, and crookneck squash. |
| gardening in early childhood education: Sowing the Seeds of Wonder Erika Perloff, Amy Carlson, Jill Begin, 2010-01-01 |
| gardening in early childhood education: Teaching in Nature's Classroom Nathan K Larson, 2020-09-08 In Teaching in Nature's Classroom: Principles of Garden-Based Education, Nathan Larson shares a philosophy of teaching in the garden. Rooted in years of experience and supported by research, Larson presents fifteen guiding principles of garden-based education. These principles and best practices are illustrated through engaging stories from the field. The book features vivid paintings by mural artist Becky Hiller and connections to the research literature provided by Alex Wells and Sam Dennis of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Environmental Design Lab. |
| gardening in early childhood education: Planting a Rainbow Lois Ehlert, 2003 This educational and enjoyable book helps children understand how to plant bulbs, seeds, and seedlings, and nurture their growth. Lois Ehlert's bold collage illustrations include six pages of staggered width, presenting all the flowers of each color of the rainbow. |
| gardening in early childhood education: Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Sue Bredekamp, Carol Copple, 1997-01-01 This volume spells out more fully the principles undergirding developmentally appropriate practice and guidelines for making decisions in the classroom for young children. |
| gardening in early childhood education: Gardening for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Special Educational Needs Natasha Etherington, 2012-02-15 Winner of the American Horticultural Therapy Association's Book Publication Award 2014 A garden or nature setting presents the perfect opportunity for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and special needs to learn, play and strengthen body and mind. This book empowers teachers and parents with little gardening know-how to get outside and use nature to motivate young learners. Using a mindfulness approach, Natasha Etherington presents a simple gardening program that offers learning experiences beyond those a special needs student can gain within the classroom. The book outlines the many positive physical, cognitive, sensory, emotional and social benefits of getting out into the garden and provides specially adapted gardening activities for a variety of needs, including those with developmental disabilities and behavioural difficulties, as well as wheelchair users. With a focus on the therapeutic potential of nature, the book shows that gardening can help reduce feelings of anxiety, provide an outlet for physical aggression, build self-esteem through the nurturing of plants and much more. With this practical program, teachers and parents can easily adopt gardening activities into their schedules and enjoy the benefits of introducing children with special needs to nature and the rhythms of the seasons. |
| gardening in early childhood education: Sowing the Seeds of Wonder Second Edition Erika Perloff, Amy Carlson, Jill Begin, 2017-08 This activity guide is full of hands-on activities designed to inspire in young children a connection to the outdoors, an appreciation of healthy foods, and a love of learning. Lessons invite students to dig into the soil; observe birds, insects, and other critters; and enjoy the tastes of fresh fruits and vegetables they plant, harvest, and prepare. |
| gardening in early childhood education: Wonderful Worms Linda Glaser, 2021-04-01 Wonderful Worms encourages an appreciation for the small creatures of the earth by explaining the vital role that earthworms play in the planet's ecosystem. The book also contains informative charts and cross-section illustrations of the worm's underground environment. |
| gardening in early childhood education: How to Grow a School Garden Arden Bucklin-Sporer, Rachel Pringle, 2010-09-14 In this groundbreaking resource, two school garden pioneers offer parents, teachers, and school administrators everything they need to know to build school gardens and to develop the programs that support them. Today both schools and parents have a unique opportunity — and an increasing responsibility — to cultivate an awareness of our finite resources, to reinforce values of environmental stewardship, to help students understand concepts of nutrition and health, and to connect children to the natural world. What better way to do this than by engaging young people, their families, and teachers in the wondrous outdoor classroom that is their very own school garden? It's all here: developing the concept, planning, fund-raising, organizing, designing the space, preparing the site, working with parents and schools, teaching in the garden, planting, harvesting, and even cooking, with kid-friendly recipes and year-round activities. Packed with strategies, to-do lists, sample letters, detailed lesson plans, and tricks of the trade from decades of experience developing school garden programs for grades K–8, this hands-on approach will make school garden projects accessible, inexpensive, and sustainable. Reclaiming a piece of neglected play yard and transforming it into an ecologically rich school garden is among the most beneficial activities that parents, teachers, and children can undertake together. This book provides all the tools that the school community needs to build a productive and engaging school garden that will continue to inspire and nurture students and families for years to come. |
| gardening in early childhood education: The Youth Gardening Book Lynn Ocone, 1983 |
| gardening in early childhood education: From the Garden Michael Dahl, 2004-01-01 Introduces the numbers from one to twelve as family members pick a variety of vegetables from the garden. Includes counting activities and fun facts about growing vegetables. |
| gardening in early childhood education: What's in the Garden? Marianne Berkes, 2013-03-01 Learning about fruits and vegetables becomes fun in What's in the Garden? This book serves as a garden tool for kids and doubles as a healthy cookbook, with tons of kid-friendly recipes for you to cook with your child. Children at home this summer will be inspired learn about the world around us! Good food doesn't begin on a store shelf with a box, it comes from a garden bursting with life, color, sounds, smells, sunshine, moisture, birds, and bees! Healthy food becomes much more interesting when children know where they come from. So what's in the garden? Kids will find a variety of fruits and vegetables, from carrots to broccoli, apples to onions. For each vegetable comes a tasty, kid-friendly recipe making this book not only the perfect gardening book for kids, but also a healthy cookbook for kids from 4-8. Author Marianne Berkes consulted with nutritionists and personally made every recipe in the book, to be sure they are both tasty and kid-friendly. Recipes include: Applesauce Carrot Muffins Tomato Sauce French Onion Soup Blueberry Pie Backmatter Includes: Further information about the foods in the book A glossary to help with food preparation Facts about gardening and plant anatomy |
| gardening in early childhood education: Chicks and Salsa Aaron Reynolds, 2014-06-10 With whimsical illustrations by Paulette Bogan, Aaron Reynolds has created a hilarious picture book about one rooster's quest for culinary delight. What happens at Nuthatcher Farm when the chickens get tired of the same old chicken feed? The rooster hatches a plan, of course! With a pinch of genius, a dash of resourcefulness, and a little pilfering from the farmer's garden, the chickens whip up a scrumptious snack of chips and salsa. When the rest of the barnyard gets a whiff of the spicy smells and want to join in, it can mean only one thing . . . FIESTA! But when the big day arrives, all their spicy southwestern supplies are gone! It seems that Mr. and Mrs. Nuthatcher have caught on to the flavor craze as well, and the only thing left for the animals to do is to try a new culinary style-ooh la la! |
| gardening in early childhood education: Farm to Keiki Tiana Kamen, 2019-11-20 (This is the shorter 124 page Home/Family Edition which excludes lesson plans). This book provides families, teachers and community members with the basic tools and inspiration to connect children with nature and show them how to grow, prepare and eat healthy foods. Readers will find step-by-step lesson plans/curricula, hundreds of activity ideas, plant guides and nutritionist-approved, Hawai'i-based recipes. The book is divided into two main sections: Meet the Plants and Recipes. The Meet the Plants section is used to teach keiki about specific fruits, vegetables and herbs (includes 19 plants or plant families). Each page features a specific plant or plant family with a labeled photograph. These pages will increase readers knowledge about plants and give you ideas about how to use them in the classroom, kitchen and garden. The book includes 37 'Ai Pono Recipes. These recipes are for adults to make with children, or children to make on their own. Make these recipes for taste tests, classroom/home cooking, snacks and meals. They are all nourishing foods that feature Hawai'i grown and raised ingredients. The book encourages adults to engage children in the entire cooking process: learning about the ingredients, gardening, harvesting, washing, cooking, eating and cleaning. These recipes are designed to keep children, families and teachers healthy, so readers are encouraged to make and eat these recipes often. This book is beautiful and features real foods and plants from Hawai'i. |
| gardening in early childhood education: Gardening for Beginners Emily Bone, Abigail Wheatley, 2015 This charming book is packed with ideas for plants that anyone can grow, even without a garden. Just follow the simple step-by-step instructions to grow sunflowers, strawberries, flowering bulbs, salad leaves, bee-friendly flowers and much, much more ...--Page [4] cover. |
| gardening in early childhood education: Urban Environmental Education Review Alex Russ, Marianne E. Krasny, 2017-06-06 Urban Environmental Education Review explores how environmental education can contribute to urban sustainability. Urban environmental education includes any practices that create learning opportunities to foster individual and community well-being and environmental quality in cities. It fosters novel educational approaches and helps debunk common assumptions that cities are ecologically barren and that city people don't care for, or need, urban nature or a healthy environment. Topics in Urban Environmental Education Review range from the urban context to theoretical underpinnings, educational settings, participants, and educational approaches in urban environmental education. Chapters integrate research and practice to help aspiring and practicing environmental educators, urban planners, and other environmental leaders achieve their goals in terms of education, youth and community development, and environmental quality in cities. The ten-essay series Urban EE Essays, excerpted from Urban Environmental Education Review, may be found here: naaee.org/eepro/resources/urban-ee-essays. These essays explore various perspectives on urban environmental education and may be reprinted/reproduced only with permission from Cornell University Press. |
| gardening in early childhood education: A Green Kid's Guide to Watering Plants Richard Lay, 2013-01-01 Provides a guide to gardening, covering such subjects as preparing soil, fertilizing, and removing pests. |
| gardening in early childhood education: A Child's Garden of Standards Janice Lowen Agee, 2002 |
| gardening in early childhood education: Plant Secrets Emily Goodman, 2009-02-01 Learn the secrets of plant lifecycles, using four common (but very different) plants. Simple text and colorful illustrations show the major phases of plant growth: seed, plant, flower, and fruit. Back matter offers more information on each plant, as well as on each stage of growth. |
| gardening in early childhood education: Fruits and Veggies Row by Row Angela Russ-Ayon, 2018-10-03 Diverse young characters work together to grow fruits and vegetables in the garden from seed to sprout to harvest. This is a rich STEM experience that introduces children to the beneficial process of working the land and reaping the rewards. Filled with teachable moments, simple gardening terminology, and opportunities to mimic and move. An enjoyable way to give youngsters control over their diets and promote healthy eating. Lyrical rhyming verses and colorful imagery prompt readers to make little discoveries along the way. Plant something that helps children grow! ------- Related terms and phrases: gardening for young children, community gardens, nutrition month, fruits and vegetables, growing healthy foods, growing fruits, growing vegetables, planting vegetables, planting fruit, harvesting a garden, planting healthy food, planting a garden, how to plant a garden, garden fresh food, healthy living, healthy eating. ***** This title is available in bulk for early childhood and family grants that promote healthy eating, fruits and vegetables, gardening, farm to table, STEM initiatives, and anti-obesity. Contact the publisher (Abridge Club) directly for orders and pricing. --------- Similar books in this category: Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert. ------ Early Childhood Benefits of Gardening: 1. Gives an opportunity to design and create a gardening space. 2. A socioemotional experience - children work cooperatively toward a positive outcome. 3. Provides a therapeutic calming effect from outdoor, fresh air activity, disconnected from electronics and the stress of life. (Netherlands study) 4. Engages all senses - a sensorimotor experience. 5. Gain an understanding of where food comes from. 6. Leads to increased food preparation after harvest. 7. Encourages the consumption of fresh produce. Children who grow their own food are more likely to eat fresh fruits and vegetables. 8. Engages children and adults in moderate exercise and physical activity: bending, twisting, stretching, lifting, pulling, reaching. Improves fine motor skills, hand strength, and dexterity. 9. Learn patience, responsibility, and gain a sense of confidence. 10. Experience a scientific process that pays off. 11. Develops planning, STEM, and analytical abilities. 12. Introduces the sciences: life, earth, and physical sciences - botany, biology, and chemistry. 13. Provides an opportunity to examine the world around us: weather, temperature, insects, animals, etc. 14. Explores the limits of natural resources and the importance of using them carefully. 15. Highlights the importance of taking care of the environment. 16. Sunshine on the skin helps the body make Vitamin D! Vitamin D helps our bodies use calcium, keeps our bones strong, and helps us fight diseases. |
| gardening in early childhood education: The Importance of Being Little Erika Christakis, 2016-02-09 “Christakis . . . expertly weaves academic research, personal experience and anecdotal evidence into her book . . . a bracing and convincing case that early education has reached a point of crisis . . . her book is a rare thing: a serious work of research that also happens to be well-written and personal . . . engaging and important.” --Washington Post What kids need from grown-ups (but aren't getting)...an impassioned plea for educators and parents to put down the worksheets and flash cards, ditch the tired craft projects (yes, you, Thanksgiving Handprint Turkey) and exotic vocabulary lessons, and double-down on one, simple word: play. --NPR The New York Times bestseller that provides a bold challenge to the conventional wisdom about early childhood, with a pragmatic program to encourage parents and teachers to rethink how and where young children learn best by taking the child’s eye view of the learning environment To a four-year-old watching bulldozers at a construction site or chasing butterflies in flight, the world is awash with promise. Little children come into the world hardwired to learn in virtually any setting and about any matter. Yet in today’s preschool and kindergarten classrooms, learning has been reduced to scripted lessons and suspect metrics that too often undervalue a child’s intelligence while overtaxing the child’s growing brain. These mismatched expectations wreak havoc on the family: parents fear that if they choose the “wrong” program, their child won’t get into the “right” college. But Yale early childhood expert Erika Christakis says our fears are wildly misplaced. Our anxiety about preparing and safeguarding our children’s future seems to have reached a fever pitch at a time when, ironically, science gives us more certainty than ever before that young children are exceptionally strong thinkers. In her pathbreaking book, Christakis explains what it’s like to be a young child in America today, in a world designed by and for adults, where we have confused schooling with learning. She offers real-life solutions to real-life issues, with nuance and direction that takes us far beyond the usual prescriptions for fewer tests, more play. She looks at children’s use of language, their artistic expressions, the way their imaginations grow, and how they build deep emotional bonds to stretch the boundaries of their small worlds. Rather than clutter their worlds with more and more stuff, sometimes the wisest course for us is to learn how to get out of their way. Christakis’s message is energizing and reassuring: young children are inherently powerful, and they (and their parents) will flourish when we learn new ways of restoring the vital early learning environment to one that is best suited to the littlest learners. This bold and pragmatic challenge to the conventional wisdom peels back the mystery of childhood, revealing a place that’s rich with possibility. |
| gardening in early childhood education: The Vegetable Gardener's Container Bible Edward C. Smith, 2011-03-02 Harvest tomatoes on a patio, produce a pumpkin in a planter, and grow broccoli on a balcony! Best-selling author Ed Smith shows you everything you need to know to successfully create and care for an edible container garden, from choosing the right plants and selecting appropriate containers through controlling pests without chemicals and harvesting fresh vegetables. You’ll discover that container gardening is an easy and fun way to enjoy summer’s bounty in even the smallest of growing spaces. |
| gardening in early childhood education: Edible Schoolyard Alice Waters, 2008-12-17 Offers a look at an organic garden on school grounds, which are tended and harvested by students and the benefits that arise from it. |
| gardening in early childhood education: From Seed to Plant Gail Gibbons, 2018-01-01 Gail Gibbons is known for her ability to bring the nonfiction world into focus for young students. Through pictures, captions, and text, this book provides a window into the world of growing things...Erin Mallon complements Gibbonss text with a clear, clipped, and purposeful narration. -AudioFile Magazine |
| gardening in early childhood education: Water, Weed, and Wait Edith Hope Fine, Angela Demos Halpin, 2010 Miss Marigold, the garden lady, visits Pepper Lane Elementary to help them transform a weedy, rocky patch of ground into a garden. |
| gardening in early childhood education: The Hyena Scientist Sy Montgomery, Nic Bishop, 2018-05-15 An appealing, elegantly designed introduction to another much-maligned species. —Kirkus (starred review) A fascinating, informative, and inclusive window into a feared and misunderstood species. —Booklist (starred review) This myth-busting addition to the critically acclaimed Scientists in the Field series by Sibert medal winning team Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop is perfect for nonfiction readers looking for more female scientist narratives, or a fresh perspective on an underrepresented animal—Hyenas! Timely and inspiring, The Hyena Scientist sets the record straight about one of history’s most hated and misunderstood mammals, while featuring the groundbreaking, pioneering research of a female scientist in a predominately male field in this offering by Sibert-winning duo Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop. As a scientist studying one of the only mammalian societies led entirely by females, zoologist Kay Holecamp has made it her life’s work to understand hyenas, the fascinating, complex creatures that are playful, social, and highly intelligent—almost nothing like the mangy monsters of pop culture lore. |
| gardening in early childhood education: Rachel's Day in the Garden Giselle Shardlow, 2014-12-23 IPNE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2015 & WINNER CHILDREN'S BOOK 2015 Experience the benefits of yoga while learning about the signs of spring! Join Rachel as she and her adorable puppy look for signs of spring in the garden. Crawl like a caterpillar, buzz like a bee, and flutter like a butterfly. Discover spring, explore movement, and learn the colors of the rainbow. The storybook includes a list of kids yoga poses and a parent-teacher guide. Kids Yoga Stories introduce you to engaging characters who will get your child laughing, moving, and creating. Reading is good for the mind AND body! The story links several yoga poses in a specific sequence to create a coherent and meaningful story. This spring yoga story for ages 3 to 6 is more than a storybook, but it's also a unique experience for children. |
| gardening in early childhood education: Hollyhocks and Honeybees Sara Starbuck, Marla Olthof, Karen Midden, 2002 Garden projects for young children. Experiments and Activity Programs. |
| gardening in early childhood education: Our School Garden! Rick Swann, 2018-04 New city. New school. Michael is feeling all alone--until he discovers the school garden! There's so many ways to learn, and so much work to do. Taste a leaf? Mmm, nice and tangy hot. Dig for bugs? Roly-poly! he yells. But the garden is much more than activities outdoors: making school garden stone soup, writing Found Poems and solving garden riddles, getting involved in community projects such as Harvest Day, food bank donations, and spring plant sales. Each season creates a new way to learn, explore and make friends. School librarian and gardener Rick Swann, in his picture book debut, describes the wonder of connecting with nature and the joy of growing and eating one's own harvest. Award-winning artist Christy Hale (Dreaming Up, Elizabeti's Doll series) captures the brilliant color of the season and the harvest. This is the perfect book to read alone, as well as share in the classroom or with the entire family. Good read for the young gardener. Winner of the Growing Good Kids Book Award from Junior Master Gardener Program and American Horticultural Society, named Food Tanks' 15 Book for Future Foodies, and the Whole Kids Foundation Book Club selection in 2016. |
| gardening in early childhood education: Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process Aota, 2014 As occupational therapy celebrates its centennial in 2017, attention returns to the profession's founding belief in the value of therapeutic occupations as a way to remediate illness and maintain health. The founders emphasized the importance of establishing a therapeutic relationship with each client and designing an intervention plan based on the knowledge about a client's context and environment, values, goals, and needs. Using today's lexicon, the profession's founders proposed a vision for the profession that was occupation based, client centered, and evidence based--the vision articulated in the third edition of the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process. The Framework is a must-have official document from the American Occupational Therapy Association. Intended for occupational therapy practitioners and students, other health care professionals, educators, researchers, payers, and consumers, the Framework summarizes the interrelated constructs that describe occupational therapy practice. In addition to the creation of a new preface to set the tone for the work, this new edition includes the following highlights: a redefinition of the overarching statement describing occupational therapy's domain; a new definition of clients that includes persons, groups, and populations; further delineation of the profession's relationship to organizations; inclusion of activity demands as part of the process; and even more up-to-date analysis and guidance for today's occupational therapy practitioners. Achieving health, well-being, and participation in life through engagement in occupation is the overarching statement that describes the domain and process of occupational therapy in the fullest sense. The Framework can provide the structure and guidance that practitioners can use to meet this important goal. |
| gardening in early childhood education: Home Education Charlotte Mason, 2013-02-18 Home Education consists of six lectures by Charlotte Mason about the raising and educating of young children (up to the age of nine), for parents and teachers. She encourages us to spend a lot of time outdoors, immersed in nature, handling natural objects, and collecting experiences on which to base the rest of their education. She discusses the use of training in good habits such as attention, thinking, imagining, remembering, performing tasks with perfect execution, obedience, and truthfulness, to replace undesirable tendencies in children (and the adults that they grow into). She details how lessons in various school subjects can be done using her approach. She concludes with remarks about the Will, the Conscience, and the Divine Life in the Child. Charlotte Mason was a late nineteenth-century British educator whose ideas were far ahead of her time. She believed that children are born persons worthy of respect, rather than blank slates, and that it was better to feed their growing minds with living literature and vital ideas and knowledge, rather than dry facts and knowledge filtered and pre-digested by the teacher. Her method of education, still used by some private schools and many homeschooling families, is gentle and flexible, especially with younger children, and includes first-hand exposure to great and noble ideas through books in each school subject, conveying wonder and arousing curiosity, and through reflection upon great art, music, and poetry; nature observation as the primary means of early science teaching; use of manipulatives and real-life application to understand mathematical concepts and learning to reason, rather than rote memorization and working endless sums; and an emphasis on character and on cultivating and maintaining good personal habits. Schooling is teacher-directed, not child-led, but school time should be short enough to allow students free time to play and to pursue their own worthy interests such as handicrafts. Traditional Charlotte Mason schooling is firmly based on Christianity, although the method is also used successfully by secular families and families of other religions. |
| gardening in early childhood education: The Pruner's Bible Steve Bradley, 2009-03 A plant-by-plant guide to pruning that features 100 of the most popular trees and shrubs. It tells you things you need to know about pruning: why you need to prune, when to do it and what tools are required. It presents step-by-step illustrations and instructions that demonstrate the correct pruning technique for each plant. |
| gardening in early childhood education: A Tale of Two Beasts Fiona Roberton, 2015-04-02 There are two sides to every story. A little girl finds a strange beast in the woods and takes it home as a pet. She feeds it, shows it off to her friends and gives it a hat. But that night it escapes. Then the beast tells the story of being kidnapped by the girl, who forcefed it squirrel food, scared it with a group of beasts and wrapped it in wool. Can the two beasts resolve their differences? An eye-opening story that makes you look at things from a different perspective. 'Roberton's premise is as sublime as it is simple, with a subtle message. [...] Totally delightful.' - Kirkus Reviews |
| gardening in early childhood education: Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education Fikile Nxumalo, 2019-05-23 This book draws attention to the urgent need for early childhood education to critically encounter and pedagogically respond to the entanglements of environmentally damaged places, anti-blackness, and settler colonial legacies. Drawing from the author’s multi-year participatory action research with educators and children in suburban settings, the book highlights Indigenous presences and land relations within ongoing settler colonialism as necessary, yet often ignored, aspects of environmental education. Chapters discuss topics such as: geotheorizing in a capitalist society, absences of Black place relations, and unsettling unquestioned Western assumptions about nature education. Rather than offer prescriptive solutions, this book works to broaden possibilities and bolster the conversation among teachers and scholars concerned with early years environmental education. |
| gardening in early childhood education: Early Childhood Education and Care for Sustainability Valerie Huggins, David Evans, 2017-11-10 This innovative and timely book explores issues and concerns surrounding Education for Sustainable Development in early childhood, providing a range of perspectives on how we can live and promote more healthy, just and sustainable lives. It examines the professional responsibility of Early Years practitioners to embed sustainability into their everyday practice and to ensure that young children are acquiring the knowledge and skills they need to become effective agents of change, committed problem-solvers and system-thinkers. Bringing together international examples of best practice, drawing on cutting-edge research, and providing an array of practical examples, chapters focus on issues such as: the historical context of Early Education for Sustainability complexities and challenges involved in implementing sustainable approaches encouraging children to contribute to an enabling society adopting environmentally sustainable approaches in Early Years settings the future of sustainability in Early Years education. This book offers essential support to Early Years educators, practitioners and students who are key players in shaping the fundamental attitudes and beliefs of our planet’s future citizens, enabling them to assume their responsibilities, now and in the future, in regard to environmental, social and economic sustainability. |
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Information in this guide was gathered by researching various kids gardening resources and through actual visits to each of the centers to hear firsthand what worked well for them with …
Essential Reading: Gardening in Early and Middle Childhood
This book offers step-by-step directions for 120 gardening projects for ages 5-12. The introduction covers basics about how plants grow, their planting and care, and sustainable gardening.
Gardening in Early Childhood Settings - California …
Gardening – in the classroom or outside – improves children’s academic performance, boosts their development of environmental understanding and awareness, and fosters their …
Kindergarten Gardening: What Kids Learn | Education
Kindergarten Gardening: What Kids Learn Give your kids a plot of land and it’ll inevitably turn weed-infested. It may not be what you’d imagined for your backyard, but, to them, it’ll be a …
Seasonal Food Gardening BOOK the Early Years - Kitchen …
The pleasureable food education philosophy (on the next page) explains the importance of introducing children to new flavours, with exposure to new smells and tastes.
The Essentials of Waldorf Early Childhood Education
What is it that makes Waldorf early childhood education “Waldorf?” Rudolf Steiner spoke on a number of occasions about the essentials of education and of early childhood education. His …
Sustainability education in early childhood: An updated …
Sustainability education is increasingly practiced in early childhood, but a previous review of the literature suggests that there is little empirical research to provide the necessary foundation …
270 GARDENING ACTIVITIES AT SCHOOL AND THEIR …
Preschool or school gardening combines meaningful work and motivating activities with three key elements of education in science: content, process skills and attitude (Hachey & Butler, 2009). …
Kitchen Garden Program for Early Childhood
Every week across Australia, thousands of children in over 150 early childhood services discover the magic of the Kitchen Garden Program. Through meaningful and holistic learning, children …
Gardening in Early Childhood Settings - California …
-- The absolutely definitive source of information about how to start gardening, tips for planning, curricular ideas, real-life examples from California school gardens, funding possibilities, lists of …
Gardening Learning Methods Increase Responsibility in Early …
the natural environment to early childhood. Gardening activities or gardening projects from an early age are an effective and fast way to educate children consciously to appreciate and love …
Outdoor learning in early childhood education: exploring …
Purpose: This review study sought to explore a small subset of relevant literature in detail, in order to identify and describe the noted benefits and challenges of implementing outdoor learning in …
School Gardening in Early Childhood Education in Oman: A …
Nov 18, 2014 · A pilot school gardening project involving a quasi-experimental mixed method design was undertaken in the Sultanate of Oman with several Grade 2 and Grade 7 classes to …
International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental …
education and education for sustainability research articles published 2009-2013 across 19 early childhood or environmental education focused journals. They identified three main discourse …
