5-Minute Film Festival: School Gardens
This video playlist goes outdoors to check out school gardens around the country. School gardens provide great green lessons about cooperation, sustainability, and stewardship of the earth.
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Spring has sprung, and it's time to start thinking about getting outside and planting green things! School gardens are a great way to teach kids hands-on science. Whether you have a full garden where the kids produce their own cafeteria food, or you're just getting started and egg-crate seedlings are more your pace, you can pull valuable lessons in ecology, sustainability, healthy food habits, and teamwork out of the dirt.
Video Playlist: Great School Gardens
Watch the first video below, or watch the whole playlist on YouTube.
More Resources for Learning from School Gardens
Online resources are bountiful, for novice dirt-diggers and advanced green thumbs alike. The long-running Edible Schoolyard project just launched a beautiful new website a few days ago serving up a searchable network of school gardens, kitchens, and lunch programs worldwide, and made all their resources freely available. Organizations like School Garden Wizard, the Children's Garden Network, and Garden ABC's offer tools for making the case to get a garden, lessons plans for learning from the garden, and ideas for sustaining the garden once it's established. And all of them offer lists of links to other like-minded folks, local and global. There's even a #SchoolGardenChat every Thursday at 6PM PST on Twitter, hosted by School Garden Weekly. What more do you need? Get out there and start digging!