English Language Development Bears Fruit in School Gardens
Life Lab's Language Acquisition and Science Education in Rural Schools (LASERS) program showed the positive links between language development and hands-on science using the Life Lab Science curriculum.
This theme was recently revisited by the National Gardening Associations Kidsgardening.com newsletter.Learn more about LASERS from this past post:
And from these documents:
Integrating Inquiry Science and Language Development for English Language Learners Trish Stoddart, America Pinal, Marcia Latzke, Dana CanadayJournal of Research in Science Teaching, 2002, 39(8), 1-25.