Diggin It! is a Middle School Nutrition and Garden Curriculum created by Nutritionist & Certified Health Coach, Jill Parsh. This 100+ page pdf is available as a free download by simply clicking the link above. As owner of Food for Health, LLC Jill works with kids and families (one-on-one and in groups) to teach them how […]
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Creating a school garden requires various skills of which gardening is merely one. Authors Arden Bucklin-Sporer and Rachel Kathleen Pringle of the recently published, How to Grow a School Garden: A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers, understand this well. These are the ten chapters covering such diverse topics as: design, budgeting, organizing, fundraising and […]
Smart By Nature: Schooling for Sustainability By Michael K. Stone/Center for Ecoliteracy Foreword by Daniel Goleman, author of Ecological Intelligence Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability portrays the growing sustainability movement in K-12 education, showcasing inspiring stories of public, independent, and charter schools across the country. This 216-page book describes strategies for greening the campus […]
Over the course of two weeks students wrote, filmed, and directed this short film after reading Paul Fleischman’s novel Seedfolks. These stories are the students’ stories created on location in Mr. Hughes’ English class at Virgil Middle School in Los Angeles, California. Put this book on your summer reading list, you’ll thank me in the […]