Outstanding resources for teaching in your gardens and schoolyard habitats

• Schoolyard Habitat Planning Guide, US Fish and Wildlife Service, 2011, 132 pages
• Gardens for Learning:  Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden, 2010, 98 p., http://www.csgn.org/sites/csgn.org/files/CSGN_book_0.pdf
• Guidance for taking students outdoors, with general teaching strategies and how to manage time, space, students and materials, 2012, 28 p., http://www.fossweb.com/taking-foss-outdoors
• Plant a Seed, Watch it Grow, 16 topics for teaching in school gardens, http://www.mastergardenerssandiego.org/schools/gardenbook/index.html

Establishing and Maintaining Schoolyard Habitats and Gardens

• Request a school garden consultant at http://www.mastergardenerssandiego.org/schools/schools.php
• Find school gardens to contact and visit them at http://www.mastergardenerssandiego.org/schools/mgrequest/search.php
• View a list of available grants  at http://www.mastergardenerssandiego.org/schools/mgrequest/requestmg.php
• More information about schoolyard native habitats from the National Wildlife Federation  at www.nwf.org/schoolyard.  Informacion en Espanol a www.nwf.org/garden-for-wildlife
• Outdoor Play and Learning Environments   Presentation by Ilisa Goldman at the Schoolyard Habitat Workshops, August 2013

More pages for classroom teachers:   Nature and NGSS   Taking Students Outdoors   Local Lessons   Videos   Natural History and Citizen Science