OVERVIEW 

Learn to use a garden to breathe life into standards-based lessons, promote ecological literacy, encourage healthy eating, and support students’ social development. Using Life Lab’s The Growing Classroom activity guide for grades K-6, participants in this hands-on workshop, experience tried-and-true garden-based lessons linked to Common Core Language Arts and Math and Next Generation Science Standards; practice basic gardening techniques; and develop management strategies for a school garden program. Graduate education units available.

VIEW SAMPLE WORKSHOP AGENDA

AUDIENCE

K-6 classroom teachers and garden educators

LOCATION

Life Lab’s Garden Classroom on the UC Santa Cruz Campus
www.lifelab.org/visiting

COST

$400 for 2 days

10% Early-Bird Registration Discount will be applied at check-out process for Garden Classroom workshops registered 14 days prior to workshop start date. 

LEARN

• Activities that cultivate a child’s love of our natural world
• How to use garden-based lessons to reinforce Common Core Math and English Language Arts standards and Next Generation Science Standards
• Responsive outdoor management and positive discipline strategies that promote equity and inclusion in the garden
• Specific strategies for how to grow a garden with groups of children (such as prepping a garden bed, composting and watering)

TAKE HOME

• The Growing Classroom, the award-winning resource book for educators contains 480 pages of science, math, language arts, and nutrition activities that you can do with your students in the garden
• Relevant handouts with additional sample lessons and resources
• Ideas and inspiration from a variety garden educators invested in this work!
• Free Seeds

 

Experience

• A guided tour of our 30-acre organic farm and children’s garden overlooking Monterey Bay
• A relaxing atmosphere with local snacks, drinks, and vegetarian lunch provided by our healthy food partner Charlie Hong Kong