A Librarian's Guide to Cultivating an Elementary School Garden

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A Librarian's Guide to Cultivating an Elementary School Garden

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This is the guidebook you need to justify, design, and implement a school garden to improve students' academics!

• Encourages educators to use school gardens to improve students' academics, perspectives on the environment, and their nutritional habits
• Presents an overview of the history of school gardens, the benefits to students, and their importance to local ecological communities
• Highlights the five most common habitats in detail: wetlands, urban, vegetable, wildscape, and butterfly
• Serves as a resource book for teachers and librarians who want to plan and implement a garden on their campus

The purpose of this composite resource book is to assist both private and public school librarians in cultivating a school garden on their campus. A Librarian's Guide to Cultivating an Elementary School Garden will provide information on funding sources, guidance on designing and maintaining a garden, related books and instructional activities, and webliographies.

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Published Dec 09 2008
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 136
ISBN 9781586833282
Imprint Linworth
Dimensions 280 x 215 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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