Greening School Grounds: Creating Habitats for Learning (Green Teacher)
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (881 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0865714363 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Tim Grant and Gail Littlejohn are former high school teachers and the editors of Green Teacher magazine. Published in Toronto since 1991, Green Teacher is an award-winning non-profit quarterly offering practical ideas for K-12 educators and parents who seek to foster environmental literacy and global awareness in young people.
An outstanding anthology of twenty-three articles Midwest Book Review Tim Grant and Gail Littlejohn effectively collaborate to draw from the pages of "Green Teacher" an outstanding anthology of twenty-three articles showcasing K-12 strategies for renewing and enhancing a physical environment conducive to children's learning processes and attitudes in Greening School Grounds: Creating Habitats For Learning. More than just a collective overview, the contributors offer a wealth of ideas and examples dealing with a wide range of projects including vegetable and butterfly gardens to an amphibian oasis and avian attractors. There are curriculum tie-ins, activities, and lists of resources. Greening School Grounds is
Greening School Grounds provides an overview of the school grounds greening movement, complete project plans, and subject integration. This compendium of articles from Green Teacher, North America’s leading environmental education magazine, brings together the best strategies for transforming barren expanses of school grounds into natural spaces for learning and playing. Includes extensive resources.. From vegetable and butterfly gardens to an amphibian oasis and avian attractors, this comprehensive resource offers a trove of curriculum tie-ins, activities, and plans for educators, parents, and students
About the AuthorTim Grant and Gail Littlejohn are former high school teachers and the editors of Green Teacher magazine. Published in Toronto since 1991, Green Teacher is an award-winning non-profit quarterly offering practical ideas for K-12 educators and parents who seek to foster environmental literacy and global awareness in young people.