One of the most challenging aspects of growing food in school gardens is choosing crops that can reliably be harvested within the school year. Potatoes are a great school garden crop because they are familiar to kids, nutritious and tasty to cook up, plus they’re ridiculously joyful to harvest! This post is about how to … Read More about How to grow potatoes with kids
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Playful learning outdoors in May during Covid-19
To support the families and teachers we work with in the outdoor classroom, we’ve put together this list of ideas for playful learning outdoors in May during Covid-19. You can download a PDF version for Playful learning outdoors in May during Covid-19 here: Playful learning outdoors FI-converted Our outdoor play ideas are specific to our … Read More about Playful learning outdoors in May during Covid-19
Growing space tomatoes with the Tomatosphere project
If you haven’t heard me say it before, it is worth repeating that literally EVERYTHING can be taught in a school garden! And that includes abstract and complex topics like the extreme environment of outer space, along with how our survival as a species depends on interplanetary space travel! These ideas can be explored and … Read More about Growing space tomatoes with the Tomatosphere project
Imaginative Play: Anywhere Artist
One hundred years ago Soviet psychologist and play theorist, Lev Vygotsky, argued that play was a purposeful activity for children. Vygotsky believed that a child’s greatest achievements were possible in play and that imaginative play, in particular, was an opportunity for children to become adaptive, while problem solving ways to use available resources for their … Read More about Imaginative Play: Anywhere Artist
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