Taking the Common Core standards outside.
We spent an entire school year planning our school gardens before we ever visited nurseries to purchase plants or started fundraising to support the project. We created a steering committee, wrote vision and mission statements, and tried to figure out ways we could incorporate our gardens into academics. We also wanted something that would reduce […]
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Summer school is wrapping up, but there’s no shortage of news and vacation ideas coming through the e-mail. Here’s a sampling. Great Falls, Montana Tourism sent news of a couple interesting events. On Aug. 3, women who want to learn how to rodeo can participate in Cowgirl U, a workshop held during the Big Sky […]
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One of my all-time favorite make-n-takes from a California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom conference has to be the chicken clucker, and I found mine stored away in a bin in the garage recently. I don’t even remember the date of that long-ago conference or the location, but I saved my chicken. I’ve shared […]
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