- 13 Aug 2011
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Lifelab has some amazing Garden Classroom on the UC Santa Cruz campus, Life Lab Science Program's professional trainers bring inspiration to educators interested in science, nutrition, and garden-based learning.
They have workshops on
Fall Plant It, Grow It, Eat It: Garden-Enhanced Nutrition Education - Friday September 23, 2011
The Growing Classroom: Intro to Garden-Based Learning - Thursday and Friday October 6-7, 2011
Sowing the Seeds of ...
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- 29 Oct 2010
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A Rock is a Slow Story: Garden Storytelling is an invitation to give voice to the unique, shape-shifting world of a learning garden. The author, a professional storyteller and garden educator, helps you harvest a crop of good story material and serve it up in riveting tales. You’re guided in finding core truths in the garden, building an engaging imagination around them and ...
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- 11 Sep 2010
- Educators/Parents
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Spend a day looking at the garden through the eyes of a preschool student at Life Lab's amazing Garden Classroom in Santa Cruz, CA. Sample many activities designed to encourage young children to learn about their world using all their senses. Learn how to implement garden activities in a preschool or daycare setting. We’ll also discuss basic gardening skills, appropriate garden design, safe plants for ...
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- 11 Sep 2010
- Educators/Parents
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This two-day workshop, located at Life Lab's amazing Garden Classroom in Santa Cruz, CA, is ideal for those interested in supplementing their existing science program with garden-based learning. Using The Growing Classroom activity guide for grades 2-6, you’ll experience hands-on activities, learn basic science concepts and gardening techniques, and develop management strategies for a school gardening program. Find out how to teach the standards while ...
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Make the connection from seed to table in this fun and delicious one-day workshop at Life Lab's amazing Garden Classroom in Santa Cruz, CA. Explore ways to teach nutrition through gardening, harvesting and meal preparation in Life Lab’s Garden Kitchen. You’ll learn effective ways to encourage kids grades 2-8 to eat more fruits and vegetables as part of a healthy lifestyle. Participants will sample the ...
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- 30 Aug 2010
- Students
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Air Writing, build Models, Catch Ball Drills, Field trip, Hands on Experiments,
Have child set up a "shop" to practice math with money, where the child is the cashier.
Dance, jump Rope, Rhythmic Clap and Tap for Spelling and memorization.
Role Playing, Scavenger Hunts, Museum, Science Center visits, Nature Hikes,
Drama playing, gardening, Board games and flash cards to learn words and geography,
Walk while listing to music, Science experiments.
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- 02 Aug 2010
- Students
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Click the link below to read about and complete the Perceptual Modality Preference Survey (PMPS). The PMPS will help you discover how you best learn, and it will give you some ideas about improving the probabilities of learning success.
www.learningstyles.org/pmps.html
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