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Nancy Prange – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This engaged scholarship study includes three parts, a grant proposal to redesign the greenhouse at Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School into a learning garden and two mixed method studies. The Costco Charitable Giving grant proposal to redesign the greenhouse is provided as a supplemental document to this dissertation. The two mixed method studies…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, High Schools, Science Education, Gardening
Beasley, Todd – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2022
The Native American Medicine Wheel is a powerful tool to bring alive curricular connections from science and history to mathematics and civics as part of schoolyard gardening initiatives. As a living lab these gardens also serve as valuable tools to reinforce lessons on habitat enhancement. However, deeper lessons connected to the cultures of…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Gardening, Teaching Methods, Natural Resources
Dutta, Deborah – Environmental Education Research, 2023
This paper follows the perspectives and initiatives of teachers, who were directly and indirectly, involved in a school terrace gardening project co-designed with some of them. Their narratives included their perceptions regarding students working at the farm, connected initiatives within the curriculum, and any personal efforts prompted by their…
Descriptors: Gardening, Environmental Education, Teaching Methods, Self Concept
Demuth, Traci – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This mixed-methods study researches the effects of the implementation of a STEM-garden curriculum as part of collaboration between a non-profit organization and two public schools. This study seeks to understand the processes and funding generated through this partnership between a private and public organization, as well as to evaluate how…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Gardening, Urban Youth, Elementary School Students
Zuiker, Steven J.; Wright, Kyle – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
This design-based research study considers the learner-generated design and refinement of a school garden. We report one enactment of the Connected Gardening project in order to illuminate and understand how a fourth-grade class organizes and refines its garden plot using observations of the physical environment and evaluations of data from a…
Descriptors: Gardening, Environmental Education, Science Education, Elementary School Students
Roth, Wolff-Michael – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2021
The core epistemologies underlying science education have changed little over the past 40 years: whereas science educators tend to take constructivist stances, many or most teachers tend to be concerned with the appropriation and transfer of facts and theories mandated as outcomes in the curriculum guidelines of the relevant authorities (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Epistemology, Science Education, Educational Philosophy
Stoecklin, Vicki L. – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2009
There has been increased interest in recent years on gardening with children and a variety of programs have been started to support different types of programmatic goals. Goals of gardening programs include environmental stewardship, personal growth/social skills, an integrated learning environment, nutrition/health, science education, practical…
Descriptors: Young Children, Gardening, Child Development, Interpersonal Competence
Hachey, Alyse C.; Butler, Deanna L. – Young Children, 2009
A growing body of evidence indicates that contact with nature is as important to children as good nutrition and adequate sleep, and therefore, educators need to address children's access to nature. This is particularly important in urban areas, where children have few opportunities to interact with nature. Gardening and nature-based curriculum…
Descriptors: Play, Urban Areas, Gardening, Science Education
Serrano, Elena – Annals of Science, 2012
This paper analyzes the Spanish appropriation of one of the great French eighteenth-century best-sellers, the "Spectacle de la Nature" (1732-1750) by the "abbe" Antoine Noel Pluche. In eight volumes, the "abbe" discussed current issues in natural philosophy, such as Newtonianism, the origin of fossils, artisan…
Descriptors: Spanish Culture, Paleontology, Foreign Countries, French
Morgan, Susan Conlon; Hamilton, Susan L.; Bentley, Michael L.; Myrie, Sharon – Journal of Environmental Education, 2009
Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Project Green Reach (PGR) is a children's program that has offered garden-based youth education since 1990. PGR focuses on Grade K-8 students and teachers from local Title I schools who work in teams on garden and science projects. In this exploratory study, the authors used field observations, document analysis, and past…
Descriptors: Science Projects, Environmental Education, Program Effectiveness, Botany
Szczerban, T. – South Australian Science Teachers Journal, 1972
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Gardening, Instruction, Program Descriptions
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Thompson, Angela C. – School Science Review, 1986
Presents an account of the making of a wildlife garden. Reviews the problems and outlines the plans and methods that succeeded in the project. Includes 21 illustrations of vegetation as well as descriptions of pond, marsh, meadow, and woodland areas. (ML)
Descriptors: Botany, Ecology, Environmental Education, Gardens
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Hanscom, Janice T.; Leipzig, Felicia – Green Teacher, 1994
This article outlines the development of an urban elementary school gardening project where children learn science and responsibility for the environment. Charts provide a gardening timeline, planting plan for each grade level, instructions for building a grow cart, and indoor experiments that test environmental factors for each grade level. (LZ)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Environmental Education, Experiments
Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, La Mesa, CA. – 1993
This 60-minute videotape leads teachers and students step by step through the rewarding world of gardening. It presents successful methods for gardening indoors and outdoors, in the ground, in containers, or in raised beds. Simply by following four fun and easy to understand programs, students learn about: (1) getting a garden started; (2)…
Descriptors: Agronomy, Elementary Secondary Education, Gardening, Gardens
Pranis, Eve, Ed. – Growing Ideas: A Journal of Garden-Based Learning, 1993
This series of journals includes volumes 1-4 of "Growing Ideas," a journal of garden-based learning. Each issue provides instructional ideas, horticultural information and a forum for exchange among teachers using classroom gardening to stimulate learning. Ideas in each issue are separated into three sections. The "Green Tips"…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Experiential Learning