Annmarie Ragucci, our speech teacher at 993Q, reports:
Our students picked two bags of veggies and herbs from the local library (where they have been working). They gave them to me and today we made a lesson out of it. We made a garden salad and put it on our speech delivery cart.
Students worked on initiating, maintaining, and terminating a conversation. They told teachers that the salad was a product of their gardening work all year.
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden has a great website for teachers called: “Project Green Reach.”
Their Google Site provides tons of resources including unit and lesson plans, student handouts, and much more. Almost all of the material are Word Docs, so they can be easily adapted for any student population or need.
Personally, I like the the Kitchen Botany section, which connects botany and cooking. (What else could it be?!?!) The lessons range from K-8 and there are plenty of resources for teachers to get a better handle of the content before they teach it.
Finally, there is a Resources and Grant section that has tons of links to other organizations and places to get grants for gardens in schools.
Be sure to check out–even if you’re not from BROOKLYN!!!!!
Welcome back to another year of gardening, growing, dirt, worms (but not fried!), and all good things. Let us know what is doing by you this year and we will post your pix on the site.
In the meantime, perhaps you are interested in viewing a cooking demonstration in the White House with the leader of Let’s Move, courtesy of Discovery Education. Wednesday October 29, 2014.
Some of the produce from the garden. We did some cooking. Veggie pizzas with herbs, fresh salad, etc… They are learning to cook simple fresh meals.
Thanks Jeremy
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Thanks Jeremy Kottkamp
This just in from JaneGoodall’s “Roots & Shoots” group (say that three times fast):
How to Apply for a Roots & Shoots Grant
The first step in the process is for your coaches and teachers to sign up for the professional development course offered by Roots & Shoots! The course is completely free, open to everyone (educator or not), and is online – so can be taken anywhere/ any time. Course starts July 7th at https://rootsandshoots.org/roots-shoots-online-course
Once the educators complete the course, NYC-based educators are eligible for mini-grants of $200 ($350 for animal-related projects) to support their students in implementing community-based projects.
Multiple teachers from one school site are all welcome to register. Each registrant will be eligible for their own small community grant.
The UFT monthly newspaper has a center spread on school gardens. There is no mention of D75 per se, but there are some nice photographs and a bit on the history of school gardens.
Long-time blog reader Greg sent in this article from the New York Times, about a school in Staten Island that is composting their lunchroom fruit and vegetable waste.
The Roots and Shoots people set down some roots in NYC schools. See their blog for more information on urban farming.
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