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At Granny's
Garden School, each classroom teacher has the support of a
Class Garden Coordinator
(who is responsible for preparing for, leading and cleaning up
after each lesson), and their own garden to plant, harvest and
maintain. The class garden coordinators are trained garden
teachers that are part of the Granny's Garden School staff.
Our teachers place high value on teaching
time; so do we. Time spent in Granny's Garden School using our
lesson guides is
directly connected to curriculum standards in Ohio, and our seasonal
schedules (Spring and
Fall)
are calendars that
take into account the needs of our zone 6 gardens and
the timing of classroom curriculum, and pair activities and
lesson guides that are relevant to each of the K-4th grades we
work with.
We are the land lab to the classroom across
curriculum subjects. Our lesson guides, schedule and garden
coordinators are the reason 48 or our 52 classroom teachers
choose to participate in the program each year.
When we started the program, we did not want to introduce
another curriculum for teachers to have to deal with. So, we
began with what they were already teaching and found
practical ways to connect it to the
gardens. We now have a school calendar's worth of plant based
lessons that not only meet state standards, work with the
school's curriculum and the curriculum map, but matches it all
with the needs of our zone six gardens. In addition, we have
detailed first-fourth grade lesson guides for each week. We
make our planting schedule, lesson guides and support
information and worksheets available, free, to school garden
programs across the country.
We recognize that educators from across the country are using
our lesson guides. So, all of our guides are in Microsoft Word
document format so they can be easily altered to meet the
specific resources and needs of others who
may use them. We do have a
copyright on everything on our website. They are free
educators to use in their garden programs. We ask only
that your recognize Granny's Garden School as the source. |
