Garden Adventures - Grow Eat and Learn in your Schoolyard - presentations at two upcoming conferences

Here is Garden Adventures, a ten-week after-school schoolyard gardening program focused on growing food and healthy eating that I co-facilitated at Arlington Traditional School Garden in 2011.

Here below is the powerpoint on Garden Adventures  I am presenting at two upcoming conferences:
Virginia Association of Environmental Educators (October 16-18)
and Virginia Association of Science Teachers (November 14-16).

Garden Adventures Grow Eat and Learn in your Schoolyard VAEE VAST 2013 reduced file size from MaryVanDyke

• Click here for registration and details for VA Environmental Education Conference - October 16-18 at Shrine Mont, VA.

• Click here for registration and details for VA Association of Science Teachers Annual PDI Conference - November 14-16, Norfolk VA.

I based the Garden Adventures program on the session framework from Project PLANTS (from University of Kansas, fall and spring after-school food and nutrition programs) and activities from the Junior Master Gardeners curriculum.

See details on the Garden Adventures spring program at my archive blog:  ATS Gardening, March - May 2011.

Project PLANTS will soon be online!

Education Outside - San Francisco schools expanding outdoor classroom program

Education Outside and their Corps of Education Outside staff - bring elementary school students outside to learn standards-based, outdoor science.  They take the children out to their outdoor classrooms to learn about environmental sustainability and nature on school grounds.

See more at: http://www.educationoutside.org/

And see the write up of the innovative Education Outside program below...

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• PHOTO COURTESY OF PAIGE GREEN
• Corps member Kelly Nichols works with students as a part of Education Outside, an expanding program in The City.

For more click on link:

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/san-francisco-schools-expanding-outdoor-classroom-program/Content?oid=2539274

By Andrea Koskey @SFEX_koskey

Reposted from the San Francisco Examiner