Benefits & Best Practices
This section provides an overview of school gardens, including types of school gardens, benefits of establishing a school garden, articles on how to start a school garden, performance assessment tools, as well as how and why to integrate
school garden activities into the school’s curricula. This section also includes articles on research done on the benefits of school gardens.
Research:
Best Practices Models for Implementing, Sustaining, and Using Instructional School Gardens in California,
Eric L. Hazzard, PhD1, Elizabeth Moreno, MS, RD2, Deborah L. Beall, MS, RD2, Sheri Zidenberg-Cherr, PhD1
- 1 University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
- California Department of Education, Nutrition Services Division, Sacramento, CA
- Available online 7 September 2011.
The Effects of School Gardens on Students and Schools: Conceptualization and Considerations for Maximizing Healthy Development,
Emily J. Ozer, Health Educ Behav 2007; 34; 846 originally published online Jul 21, 2006; DOI: 10.1177/1090198106289002
Use of School Gardens in Academic Instruction,
Heather Graham, MS, RD, Deborah Lane Beall, MS, RD, Mary Lussier, MPH, RD, Peggy McLaughlin, PhD, Sheri Zidenberg-Cherr, PhD
- Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, California
- California Department of Education, Sacramento, California
- California State Polyechnic University, Pomona, California
- Available online 14 June 2006
School Gardens: An Experiential Learning Approach for Nutrition Education Program to Increase Fruit and Vegetable Knowledge,
Sondra M. Parmer, PhD‚ Jill Salisbury-Glennon, PhD, David Shannon, PhD, Barbara Struempler, PhD
- Auburn University, Auburn, AL
- Available online 3 May 2009.
Creating and Sustaining School Gardens:
Western Growers Foundation’s Collective School Garden Network: Lots of downloadable materials
http://www.csgn.org/csysg
LSU Ag Center
Add Gardens to Your School Curriculum - downloadable
http://www.lsuagcenter.com/NR/rdonlyres/29612E78-9A04-4292-A90B-29D1AD45A8FF/55559/SchoolGardeningx.pdf
Assessing a Garden-based Curriculum for Elementary Youth in Iowa: Parental Perceptions of Change
http://horttech.ashspublications.org/content/18/1/18.abstract - can download complete text and tables from here
Creating a Three Sisters’ Garden
http://www.kidsgardening.org/node/12033
Creating and Sustaining a School Garden
http://www.csgn.org/csysg-trainer - contains lots of related, downloadable workshop and teacher training materials
Designing Your School Garden
http://www.csgn.org/sites/csgn.org/files/GFL_5.pdf
Designing School Gardens
http://www.csgn.org/designing-your-garden
Educator’s Guide to Starting a School Garden
http://greenschoolyardnetwork.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/how-to-start-school-garden-baltimore.pdf
Garden Based Learning in Basic Education
http://4h.ucanr.edu/files/1229.pdf
Garden Based Learning Across the Curriculum
http://tccl.rit.albany.edu/knilt/index.php/Garden-Based_Learning_Across_the_Curriculum
Gardens for Learning
http://www.csgn.org/sites/csgn.org/files/CSGN_book.pdf - downloadable book
Getting Started – A Guide for Creating School Gardens as Outdoor Classrooms
http://www.ecoliteracy.org/sites/default/files/getting-started-2009.pdf
Growing Minds – The Effect of a School Gardening Program on the Science Achievement of Elementary Students
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/syllabi/435/articles/klemmer.pdf
School Garden Results
http://www.realschoolgardens.org/real-results.aspx
Benefits of School Gardening for Children
http://siteinsightnow.com/ohiolnci/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/CYE_FactSheet3_BenefitsofGardeningforChildren_July20091.pdf
Evaluation of the Benefits of School Gardening
http://www.csupomona.edu/~smemerson/business318/articles101/childrens%20gardens.pdf
Benefits of a School Garden
http://guilford.ces.ncsu.edu/sgn/benefit/
Growing the Outdoor Classroom
http://www.aps.edu/coordinated-school-health/wellness/wellness-documents/GGT%20Handbook.pdf
Growing School Gardens: A How-to Guide for Beginning Desert School Gardens
http://hungercenter.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Growing-School-Gardens-Nagin.pdf
School Garden Activities – downloadable
http://www.kansasgreenschools.org/kansas-school-gardens-activities
Setting Up and Running a School Garden – UN Manual for Teachers, Parents, and Communities - downloadable
www.fao.org/3/a-ao218e.pdf
Setting Up and Running a School Garden – Teaching Toolkit
http://www.fao.org/3/a-i1118e.pdf
The Integration [pdf]
Garden Based [pdf]
Transcript [pdf]