Life Lab’s Education Director Whitney Cohen presented a webinar on Common Core in the Garden on February 18, 2014.

View an archive of this webinar at www.edweb.net

Download PDF of Common Core in the Garden Slides

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Learn to use a garden to bring learning to life! A school garden (however large or small) provides a meaningful context in which students can apply new academic concepts and skills. Whether they are graphing the temperature of their compost pile over time; reading a recipe to make fresh salsa; writing a story from the perspective of an ant; or presenting to a buddy class on the animals that visited their sunflower patch, the opportunities for children to practice traditional academic subjects in the garden are limitless! As students use their newfound math and language skills to measure, calculate, graph, and communicate about things that really matter to them, they deepen their understanding of the subject matter while also rediscovering the joy and fascination that characterizes learning within a meaningful context. This Webinar will include specific ideas for garden-based activities that align with Common Core standards.

View all our resources for connecting garden-based learning to the new content standards.

See examples of how we bring content standards to life at the Life Lab Garden Classroom.