Learn to use a garden to breathe life into standards-based lessons, promote ecological literacy, encourage healthy eating, and support students’ social development. Using Life Lab’s The Growing Classroom activity guide for grades K-6, participants in this hands-on workshop, experience tried-and-true garden-based lessons linked to Common Core Language Arts and Math and Next Generation Science Standards; practice basic gardening techniques; and develop management strategies for a school garden program. Graduate education units available.
K-6 classroom teachers and garden educators
June 16th and 17th, 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Life Lab’s Garden Classroom on the UC Santa Cruz Campus
$400 for 2 days
10% Early-Bird Registration Discount will be applied at check-out process for Garden Classroom workshops registered 14 days prior to workshop start date.
- Activities that cultivate a child’s love of our natural world
- How to use garden-based lessons to reinforce Common Core Math and English Language Arts standards and Next Generation Science Standards
- Responsive outdoor management and positive discipline strategies that promote equity and inclusion in the garden
- Specific strategies for how to grow a garden with groups of children (such as prepping a garden bed, composting and watering)
- The Growing Classroom, the award-winning resource book for educators contains 480 pages of science, math, language arts, and nutrition activities that you can do with your students in the garden
- Relevant handouts with additional sample lessons and resources
- Ideas and inspiration from a variety garden educators invested in this work!
- Free Seeds
- A guided tour of our 30-acre organic farm and children’s garden overlooking Monterey Bay
- A relaxing atmosphere with local snacks, drinks, and vegetarian lunch provided by our healthy food partner Charlie Hong Kong
Graduate Education Credit Available