School Garden Kicks Off with Celebrity
Taking Math to the GardenIt started with a math lesson. A very boring math lesson.Educator Sonya Harris was trying to get a concept to stick. And the thing that got it to stick was the garden.A non-gardener, she saw how it could help kids take in ideas. B
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Taking Math to the Garden
It started with a math lesson. A very boring math lesson.
Educator Sonya Harris was trying to get a concept to stick. And the thing that got it to stick was the garden.
A non-gardener, she saw how it could help kids take in ideas. But she wasn’t sure where to start once she got buy-in from the principal to make a garden.
So she did it with a fun celebrity event.
We talk about:
- Launching the school garden with a “yard-crashing” event featuring an HGTV star
- Bringing the classroom to the garden — and the garden to the classroom
- Creating The Bullock Garden Project to help other educators start gardens
- Funding the non-profit project with a for-profit seed company, Garden Teachers Yard
- Resources for educators who want to incorporate gardening into the curriculum
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