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• Gardens are powerful educational tools

  22 Sep 2009
  

  Gardens are powerful educational tools, providing opportunities for children to experience the natural world as they develop strong academic skills and positive attitudes toward fresh fruits and vegetables, ...

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• The garden is a classroom at Dallas elementary schools

  04 Mar 2010

  "The school garden is a really good vehicle for kids to connect to nature and the community," said Sobel, who spoke at a REAL ...

• Garden Based Education at Lifelab

  27 Dec 2009

  Here are two other great resources for Garden-Based Learning Instruction. They can be found and reviewed here The Growing Classsroom This award-winning resource book for ...

• “Improving a child’s ability to focus on the task at hand can be achieved with relatively small change”

  23 Nov 2009

  Written by Nora Schutz, Berlin Germany NEUROSCIENCE could do for schools what biomedical research has done for healthcare. That's the conclusion of the Decade of the ...

• Hands-on Activities that Bring Math to Life

  04 Nov 2009

  Math in the Garden, This wonderful Book is developed through a partnership of University of California Botanical Garden and Lawrence Hall of Science Berkeley, ...

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• Book recommended by Erika Thu for Halloween called Pumpkin Circle written by George Levenson
• The Garden-Based Education Model
• Learning is social, computational, supported by neural systems linking people
• Trying to learn how learning works
• Assessing Kid’s Attitudes and Knowledge about Pollinators

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  Recognizing that all children have individual learning styles, Garden Based Education offers educators and parents hands-on tools to engage and inspire students.

• “An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.”
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