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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"school gardens"”.
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School Gardens: Raising Environmental Awareness in Children
<p>This paper explores the reasons for gardens and natural spaces on school campuses and the effects that such exposure to the natural world has on the students. Blending case studies, observational data and personal experience, the paper discusses the impacts a garden has on the students who …
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Instructional School Gardens: Opportunities for and Barriers to Scaling
<p>When children are engaged in school gardens, they aren’t just digging in the dirt. School gardens have been shown to help improve student health by impacting food preferences and physical activity; to enhance learning in many subject areas; to encourage critical thinking skills by utilizing …
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Destination education: A place-based look at the influences of school gardens
<p>Teachers in elementary schools have increasingly been required to follow pacing guides, given directives on what curriculum to use, and are provided standardized assessments to measure student learning. Curricula used by elementary teachers rarely address the environmental degradation plaguing …
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Experiential Learning in School Gardens and Other Outdoor Environments: A Survey of Needs for Supplemental Programs
… outreach efforts to benefit the local public school community. The study assessed the needs of local science teachers and how their needs can be met through educational outreach programs. A self-administered online survey was used to inquire about the use of experiential teaching methods using …
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Adult volunteer retention in an after-school garden club setting : a case study
Once a fixture of American schoolyards during the early 1900’s, school gardens in the United States are again growing in popularity. It is estimated that one-fourth of all public and private schools in the U.S. have a school garden. Funding, teacher involvement, support of the principal, volunteer …
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The impact of a school garden on fruit and vegetable availability at home for elementary children
… of this study was to explore the impact of a school garden on the home availability of FV and on household food security of elementary children. A secondary aim of the study was to examine the impact of both the school garden and parental FV consumption on children’s FV preferences and …
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Food for thought: the role of land-grant institutions in local food and small farm education
… in this section. An additional case study of two schools in Bloomington, Illinois that have started school gardens examines the benefits and challenges involved in local food education for children. The second section focuses on local food purchasing and educational initiatives at the University …
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Food system resilience contributions by urban agriculture
… production, intensive production, community gardens, high school gardens, and training farms. Civic engagement, political engagement, social capital including trust and collaboration, and transformational capacity were selected to measure social resilience for participants and operators of UA …
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Exploring Food System Change through a Mixed Methods Analysis of Cooperative Extension's Role in the Farm to School Movement
Farm to School is a program that connects local and regional foods and other farm products to school meals, develops school gardens, and develops other types of Farm to School experiential learning programs for K-12 students. Since Farm to School began in the mid-1990\'s, Farm to School programs …
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Cultivating a Caring, Environmental Self: Using the Figured World Concept to Explore Children's Environmental Identity Production in a Public School Garden Space
… as they participated in an emergent, public school garden space. The children's histories, choices, personal and social experiences, expressions, and corresponding narratives are explored alongside the garden structure and social context to unpack the individualized and layered nature of …
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Three Ecologies of Practice: An Intra-active Account of Learning by Doing
… through experimental practices in an urban school. The three methodologies will be discussed in relation to the planning, designing, and engagement with an urban school garden. Concerned with the materialization of practices, the thesis emphasizes embodied experiences and more-than-human …