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GotDirtWI: April 2010
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Tips, suggestions, and advice for ways to integrate school gardens into a classroom or childcare. Friday, April 30, 2010. May School Garden Ideas. It's the beginning of May, which means its time for Monthly School Garden Ideas. At the beginning of each month, the Got Dirt? WI blog features a variety of month-specific ways to incorporate your school garden into your classroom. Here are just a few ideas for the month of May. Enjoy! And share your suggestions below. May: National Salad Month. Thank you for ...
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GotDirtWI: Seed Saving
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Tips, suggestions, and advice for ways to integrate school gardens into a classroom or childcare. Thursday, January 13, 2011. Most schools in Wisconsin follow a traditional September to June calendar. Many of the food crops planted in gardens ripen and become ready to eat during the summer months, when students are not in school. Seeds, however, mature in late August through the fall, allowing for a curriculum to be in place when the school year resumes. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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GotDirtWI: November 2010
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Tips, suggestions, and advice for ways to integrate school gardens into a classroom or childcare. Tuesday, November 30, 2010. The History of School Gardens. School gardens have a rich and fascinating history. Take the time to watch this video on the history of school gardens by the Library of Congress. This could be a great video to watch with your students as a history lesson! Sit back and enjoy the wealth of information on school gardens and the narrator's fun Eastern accent =). Links to this post.
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GotDirtWI: Grants Galore!
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Tips, suggestions, and advice for ways to integrate school gardens into a classroom or childcare. Wednesday, January 19, 2011. The Healthy Classrooms Foundation. The Healthy Classrooms Foundation is excited to announce that our 3rd annual Grant application cycle is now open. Here is your opportunity to bring a healthy initiative to a classroom and help improve the lives of children in communities throughout Wisconsin.Please visit www.hc-foundation.com. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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GotDirtWI: December 2010
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Tips, suggestions, and advice for ways to integrate school gardens into a classroom or childcare. Wednesday, December 29, 2010. One of kid's favorite rewards is a party in their classroom. Many teachers reward their students with pizza or popcorn parties, but there are healthier (and tasty) party treat ideas available. Visit the Fresh for Kids. Website to find out some interesting and simple party treats! Links to this post. Tuesday, December 28, 2010. Links to this post. Monday, December 27, 2010. Onion...
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GotDirtWI: August 2011
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Tips, suggestions, and advice for ways to integrate school gardens into a classroom or childcare. Monday, August 8, 2011. How can a pebble make a bigger splash than a boulder? The stacks of spotless, crisp notebooks and bright back-to-school accessories are already greeting us at the entrance of stores. I don’t know what it is about school supplies that still draws me - my days of HAVING to have a 5-subject binder with a dreamy picture of Rick Springfield on the cover are long over! The kids planted seed...
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GotDirtWI: October 2010
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Tips, suggestions, and advice for ways to integrate school gardens into a classroom or childcare. Friday, October 29, 2010. Grant Opportunity: Lowe's Toolbox for Education. Though the grant application process for the 2010 is now closed, the 2011 grant program will be back up and running October 25, 2010 through February 18, 2011. Application materials can be found at: http:/ www.toolboxforeducation.com/index.html. Links to this post. Thursday, October 28, 2010. To learn more about sustainable agriculture.
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GotDirtWI: Tears and Cheers
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Tips, suggestions, and advice for ways to integrate school gardens into a classroom or childcare. Tuesday, September 6, 2011. It’s certainly “back-to-school time” in Wisconsin. I can almost feel a buzz, an emotional hum in the community, as parents, teachers, and kids express a mixed-bag of relief, fear, excitement, and dread. So in addition to gardening having the flexibility to fit into a lot of different curriculums, there’s also a wide variety of lessons to be extracted from a single gardening ...
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GotDirtWI: Activity: Seed Tape
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Tips, suggestions, and advice for ways to integrate school gardens into a classroom or childcare. Wednesday, January 12, 2011. Here's a simple and fun way to plant seeds in your youth garden! 1) Paper towels cut into strips 3in x 12in. 5) Small seeds (ex. lettuce, carrot). 1 With a ruler and a pencil draw small dots every one inch in the center of the paper towel strip. 2 Place a drop of glue in the center of the dots. 3 Place one seed on each drop of glue. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
