| Beyond the Bean Seed: Gardening Activities for Grades K6 Contributor(s): Blass, Rosanne (Author), Jurenka, Nancy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1563083469 ISBN-13: 9781563083464 Publisher: Libraries Unlimited OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1996 Annotation: Get your students growing with this outstanding hands-on activity book! Through gardening, book-sharing, and other creative activities, students learn about topics ranging from flowers, vegetables, and mushrooms to windowsill gardens, butterflies, and scarecrows. Recipes, word play, and poetry embellish the activities. Designed to motivate and inform, these projects promote learning in a variety of subjects - from ecology, history, and geography to career exploration and the sciences. The authors also provide a list of resources related to gardening - legends, historical fiction, biography, picture books, how-to guides, and environmental books. This is an excellent resource for educators - school librarians, classroom teachers, science education teachers, home school parents, botanical garden education directors, social workers, camp directors - and anyone else who would like to start a children's gardening program. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Science & Technology - Education | Elementary |
| Dewey: 372.357 |
| LCCN: 96010790 |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 8.53" W x 10.97" (1.34 lbs) 210 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Have your students experience the thrill of life and growth through gardening, book-sharing, and other activities. Lessons integrate gardening, children's literature, and language arts through creative activities that that have poetry, word play, and recipes. Literature-based projects lead to learning in a variety of subjects-from ecology, history, and geography to career exploration and the sciences. An annotated bibliography provides a list of gardening-related resources. Grades K-6. |
