Celebrating Cultural Inclusion in the School Garden
Learn how to effectively center cultural learning in your school garden program with KidsGardening's new curriculum of lesson plans, growing guides, and more.
Format
Recordings, Lesson Plans, Worksheetsand Resources
Starting Date
Available Asynchronously
Presenters
Dr. Dilafruz Williams
Kim Deras
Daniel Barrera-Ortega
Ángeles Martinez
Iesha Siler
Maria Khan
Levi Brewster
Reeba Daniel
Sonya Harris
Anita Singh
Cat Ayala
Carla Manuel
Sierra Penn
June Pua Aquino
Meda DeWitt
Noel Nicholas
Contents
- 10 Course Recordings
- 10 Lesson Plans
- 17 Growing Guides
- Culturally Inclusive Garden Book List
- Additional Resources
Class Length
Self-paced with unlimited access to the course materials.
Price
Free!
About the Course
By their nature, gardens embody diversity. Garden education is increasingly recognized as an interdisciplinary approach that integrates academic goals, health and wellness, place-based education, and community connections and relationships. However, discussion of culture is often missing in garden-based education. In collaboration with experienced garden educators from across the country, KidsGardening has created a curriculum of original lesson plans, growing guides, worksheets, and more designed to celebrate the intersections of garden education and culture with K through 6th-grade students.
In this course, instructors will familiarize participants with pedagogical principles for centering culture in garden education, a host of culturally-significant food plants, and provide context and insight into the lesson plans included in the curriculum.
Lessons feature vetted and researched background information so you feel confident talking about the biology, origins, and cultural significance of these plants with your students, as well as introductory activities, step-by-step exploratory activities, and lesson extensions to keep the learning going!
In this course, instructors will familiarize participants with pedagogical principles for centering culture in garden education, a host of culturally-significant food plants, and provide context and insight into the lesson plans included in the curriculum.
Lessons feature vetted and researched background information so you feel confident talking about the biology, origins, and cultural significance of these plants with your students, as well as introductory activities, step-by-step exploratory activities, and lesson extensions to keep the learning going!
Course Objectives
This course is designed to help participants feel inspired and equipped to implement this curriculum in your school garden. Each lesson's activities and supporting materials offer personal connection, cultural representation, and understanding to the students that you work with through the very foods you grow together.
- Comprehensive lesson plans centered around culturally-significant food plants.
- Supporting materials including worksheets, resource links, and associated standards.
- Growing guides for successfully growing the plants highlighted in each lesson.
- Additional resources for school garden programs.
Course Structure
This course includes 8 pre-recorded classes so students can
pace their own learning. Each class module includes lessons, growing guides, and supporting materials that can be downloaded and kept forever!
At the end of each class, students are asked to complete an evaluation survey.
A community discussion board is available for students to interact with each other and the course instructor.
At the end of each class, students are asked to complete an evaluation survey.
A community discussion board is available for students to interact with each other and the course instructor.
This course is supported in part by the USDA Patrick Leahy Farm to School Program.
We are pleased to offer this opportunity to you free of charge. We ask, however, if you value this course, to please consider making a donation today.
KidsGardening is funded by the support of donors like you. Because of your generosity, we are able to develop hundreds of free lesson plans, activities, guides, webinars, and courses to support you on your garden-based education journey.
We are pleased to offer this opportunity to you free of charge. We ask, however, if you value this course, to please consider making a donation today.
KidsGardening is funded by the support of donors like you. Because of your generosity, we are able to develop hundreds of free lesson plans, activities, guides, webinars, and courses to support you on your garden-based education journey.
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