At first, there’s the female flower with a little green bulb behind it. Pollen from the male flowers, which are on straight stems, fertilize the female flower, causing the little green bulb to develop into a squash fruit. Once the flower has been fertilized, it dries up and the little green bulb grows into a new, developing squash fruit. Over …
Online Magazine: Learn & Grow
Relocating a Self-Watering Bucket Container Garden
Our Learn & Grow Educational Series test garden was started in June 2013 as an experiment motivated by my personal curiosity about food, people’s relationships with it, their understandings about where food comes from, food education in our schools, the nutritional values of food served to students in our public schools, the relationships between nutrition and student success, and the …
The Science of Educating Wiggly Little Kids
In the summer of 2011, I was taking a class devoted to effective teaching practices and we had to review a journal article that related to one of the chapters in our text book. It was an academic assignment, but none of my grad school assignments were wasted on things that had nothing to do with my work. I chose writing …
Understanding Developing Minds
Source: Early-Childhood-Education-Degrees.com
A Quick Introduction
KPS4Parents is thrilled to provide its Learn & Grow Educational SeriesSM to parents, kids of all ages, educators, and involved community members to help bring food education into children’s lives and promote self-grown and cooperatively grown fresh, healthy fruits and vegetables. Our content is informed through our own trials in gardening, but also by the peer-reviewed research and credible news …