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