The Growing Classroom Workshop

Learn to use a garden to breathe life into standards-based lessons, promote ecological literacy, encourage a love of nourishing foods, 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.

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**WHEN**
Thursday & Friday, June 20-21, 2024
**LOCATION**
Life Lab’s Garden Classroom on the UC Santa Cruz Campus
www.lifelab.org/visiting
**AUDIENCE**
K-6 classroom teachers and garden educators
**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

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