Garden+Curriculum

Garden

Gardens urban Gardening Plants Planting weather and seasons ecosystems soil ecology Compost Agriculture Farming Urban Farming Tools Water cycles Food in South Africa, Egypt Foods in Italy, India, Brazil Plant Adaptations Three sisters native Americans food and agriculture winter gardening Aztecs Mayans Incas Inuit food and nutrition experiments and food garden insects and animals: lady bugs, beetles, ants, butterflies, snails, preying mantis, worms, bees, butterflies Animal Diversity IIM Garden animals: raccoons, squirrel, groundhog, birds, rabbit, chipmunk, snake community gardening organic sustainability social consciousness magazines (for kids) dust bowl seeds

IDEAS community garden plots compost: neighborhood collection (pumpkins, etc.) Green Market Community CSA get eroded soil

2nd grade soil erosion and proper soil care and midwest over-farming (October 3rd to the 31st) Create a module for 1st grade to study life 100 years ago: how food was acquired, grown, why they ate what they ate, transportation, local diets, little house on the prairie, etc. create a local/regional restaurant

books featured in “From Seed to Harvest,” in the November 2006 issue of Book Links magazine