Amigo's Garden
The following is a list of resources that include lessons, activities, general
information, and procedures on how to set up a variety of gardens and wildlife
habitats at your school or home. It also includes some funding opportunities!
DISCLAIMER: The following links will take you off of our site. At the time we
linked to them, site content was educational and appropriate for children.
Creating Schoolyard Gardens and Habitats, lessons and Success Stories
Butterfly Education: The Butterfly Website
Designing an Accessible Schoolyard Wildlife Habitat:
Georgia Wildlife Federation
Edible Schoolyard
The classroom, kitchen, and garden form a triad of educational experience.
Lessons taught in the classroom are enriched by hands-on garden and kitchen
activities, while concepts that arise in the kitchen and garden are meaningfully
discussed in the classroom. The settings are most productive when linked, and
foster students' multileveled understanding of the natural world. Teachers
provide students with direct instruction in support of kitchen and garden
activities, such as plant structure and function, composting, vermiculture, and
vocabulary. Because all students participate in The Edible Schoolyard, teachers
reference garden and kitchen experiences to activate prior knowledge and
support the teaching of key concepts.
Farm to School: United States Department of Agriculture
Great Plant Escape: The Great Plant Escape is an elementary plant science
program for 4th and 5th grade students
Kids Gardening: resources for teachers
National Arbor Day Foundation: grade-specific lessons, activities and classroom
resources
Native Plants Garden (National Geographic): Grades 1-3. In this lesson, students
will compare native vegetation in different parts of the United States. They will
then explore Web sites to learn about native plants in their own region, and
design gardens containing those local plants.
Nature's Partners: Pollinators, Plants and You: Nature's Partners is an inquiry
learning-based curriculum for young people in the 4th through the 6th grade. It is
comprised of seven modules. Each module offers three or four activities
designed to engage young people in active, investigative science.
Organic Gardening: How to. The Butterfly Website.
School Gardens: National Association for Environmental Education
Schoolyard Wildlife Habitat, How to Create: Southwest Center for Education and
the Natural Environment
Slow Food USA
How to Start a Slow Food in Schools Project: Slow Food USA has developed
general guidelines for establishing Garden to Table projects. This downloadable
document provides a step-by-step guide to starting a project in your community
as well as information on types of projects, model Slow Food in Schools projects,
funding guidelines, and numerous informational resources.
Success With School Gardens, How to Create a Learning Oasis in the Desert:
Book by Maricopa County Cooperative Extension Home Horticulture
The Edible Schoolyard: The Edible Schoolyard, in collaboration with Martin
Luther King Junior Middle School, provides urban public school students with a
one-acre organic garden and a kitchen classroom.
Toad Abode, Build a: National Wildlife Federation
The following is a list of resources that include lessons, activities, general
information, and procedures on how to set up a variety of gardens and wildlife
habitats at your school or home. It also includes some funding opportunities!
DISCLAIMER: The following links will take you off of our site. At the time we
linked to them, site content was educational and appropriate for children.
Creating Schoolyard Gardens and Habitats, lessons and Success Stories
Butterfly Education: The Butterfly Website
Designing an Accessible Schoolyard Wildlife Habitat:
Georgia Wildlife Federation
Edible Schoolyard
The classroom, kitchen, and garden form a triad of educational experience.
Lessons taught in the classroom are enriched by hands-on garden and kitchen
activities, while concepts that arise in the kitchen and garden are meaningfully
discussed in the classroom. The settings are most productive when linked, and
foster students' multileveled understanding of the natural world. Teachers
provide students with direct instruction in support of kitchen and garden
activities, such as plant structure and function, composting, vermiculture, and
vocabulary. Because all students participate in The Edible Schoolyard, teachers
reference garden and kitchen experiences to activate prior knowledge and
support the teaching of key concepts.
Farm to School: United States Department of Agriculture
Great Plant Escape: The Great Plant Escape is an elementary plant science
program for 4th and 5th grade students
Kids Gardening: resources for teachers
National Arbor Day Foundation: grade-specific lessons, activities and classroom
resources
Native Plants Garden (National Geographic): Grades 1-3. In this lesson, students
will compare native vegetation in different parts of the United States. They will
then explore Web sites to learn about native plants in their own region, and
design gardens containing those local plants.
Nature's Partners: Pollinators, Plants and You: Nature's Partners is an inquiry
learning-based curriculum for young people in the 4th through the 6th grade. It is
comprised of seven modules. Each module offers three or four activities
designed to engage young people in active, investigative science.
Organic Gardening: How to. The Butterfly Website.
School Gardens: National Association for Environmental Education
Schoolyard Wildlife Habitat, How to Create: Southwest Center for Education and
the Natural Environment
Slow Food USA
How to Start a Slow Food in Schools Project: Slow Food USA has developed
general guidelines for establishing Garden to Table projects. This downloadable
document provides a step-by-step guide to starting a project in your community
as well as information on types of projects, model Slow Food in Schools projects,
funding guidelines, and numerous informational resources.
Success With School Gardens, How to Create a Learning Oasis in the Desert:
Book by Maricopa County Cooperative Extension Home Horticulture
The Edible Schoolyard: The Edible Schoolyard, in collaboration with Martin
Luther King Junior Middle School, provides urban public school students with a
one-acre organic garden and a kitchen classroom.
Toad Abode, Build a: National Wildlife Federation
Arizona 4-H Youth
Gardening
Interested in youth
gardening? We're
your one-stop
source for
information and
inspiration! Our
mission is to offer
resources, training
materials and
networking
opportunities to
those involved in
developing
Arizona's youth
gardens and to
enhance their
success and impact.
American Dietetic
Association
Covering a wide
range of topics,
these brief fact
sheets provide
nutrition facts along
with healthy eating
tips and recipes.
Nutrition Fact
Sheets are
developed in
collaboration with
other organizations
and industry
sponsors.
Food Pyramid for
Kids
Games, posters
and more from the
American Dietetic
Association.
Gardening
Interested in youth
gardening? We're
your one-stop
source for
information and
inspiration! Our
mission is to offer
resources, training
materials and
networking
opportunities to
those involved in
developing
Arizona's youth
gardens and to
enhance their
success and impact.
American Dietetic
Association
Covering a wide
range of topics,
these brief fact
sheets provide
nutrition facts along
with healthy eating
tips and recipes.
Nutrition Fact
Sheets are
developed in
collaboration with
other organizations
and industry
sponsors.
Food Pyramid for
Kids
Games, posters
and more from the
American Dietetic
Association.
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