Pumpkins and Petunias (ePub)

If you are a teacher, parent, home schooler, after-school
instructor, park or botanical garden interpreter, pre-school teacher
or child development specialist, you will love this book.
It is about things to do with children between the ages of 2 and
8 in all types of gardens. The activities, collected from outstanding
teachers and the authors childhood use inquiry learning in response
to the importance of being outdoors with children.
The book explains how to select and adapt activities that are
suitable for the specifi c garden and the specifi c children, and
guidelines for safety. All of the activities are to be conducted
outdoors and use the garden for content and materials, not just for
a space.
Forty-eight carefully selected activities are presented in outline
form for easy selection and following. Each lesson includes the
objectives, a brief word to the leader, materials in list form, directions
for doing the activity, relation to the subject standards, and
suggestions for related activities. The subject areas of the proposed
book include all of the disciplines and the teaching strategies of
inquiry, playing, questioning, creating, constructing, etc.
The appendices match the activities to the National Core
State Standards, Science for the Next Generation and curriculum
standards of The National Association for the Education of
Young Children.