Posted on June 19, 2022 by Anne Zachry
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We are using Meetups to provide online classes via Zoom to Learn & Grow learners. To see our upcoming classes and register, follow these links: * Bucket Gardening for Kids – https://buff.ly/3HBvGGh * Urban Self-Watering Container Gardening – https://buff.ly/3QuVxUz #urbangardening #gardeningclasses #selfwateringcontainer #selfwateringplanter #subirrigation…
Posted on December 2, 2021 by Anne Zachry
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In this 11th episode of Food for Thought, Anne M. Zachry, the creator of the Learn & Grow Educational Series, discusses the recent supply chain shortages and their impact on food security in America at the time this video was made. She…
Posted on August 18, 2020 by Anne Zachry
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In this episode of Food for Thought, Anne Zachry, creator of the Learn & Grow Educational Series and her colleague and Learn & Grow volunteer, Isabel Arreola, compare a total DIY version of a self-watering container to a self-watering container made with a GroBucket…
Category: For K-12 Teachers, For Parents, For Students, General Info Tags: accommodation, blind, disability, garden, gardener, gardening, grobucket, grotech, impairment, kit, organic gardening, self watering, self-watering, self-watering containers, selfwatering, sub-irrigate, sub-irrigation, subirrigate, subirrigation, universal design, vision, vision loss
Posted on August 18, 2020 by Anne Zachry
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In our fourth episode of Food for Thought, Anne discusses how project-based instruction using companion planting and other polyculture techniques illustrate how diversity is a natural phenomenon that can be used to maximize the benefits for all involved. It can serve as a neutral…
Category: 10th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 12th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 9th Grade, Children & Youth in India, For K-12 Teachers, For Parents, For Students, From the Literature, General Info, Homeschooling Tags: children, common core, complex systems, food security, instruction, K-12, parent, parenting, permaculture, polyculture, stem, students, sustainability, systems, teacher, teaching
Posted on May 19, 2020 by Anne Zachry
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Learn & Grow Educational Series’ creator, Anne M. Zachry, M.A. Ed. Psych., discusses the life lessons that are naturally embedded in learning to grow food and how this is deliberately accounted for in Learn & Grow’s curriculum. Find us online: https://learn-and-grow.org Follow Us on…
Category: 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, Children & Youth in India, For K-12 Teachers, For Parents, General Info Tags: child, children, garden, gardening, goal-setting, goals, hands-on learning, learner, learning, long-term planning, parent, parenting, PBL, project based learning, project-based learning, student, teach by example, teacher, teaching
Posted on June 19, 2019 by Anne Zachry
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In our ever-increasingly rapid-paced world, we have become accustomed to real-time results to many of our efforts and inquiries, which amounts to instant gratification. Surrounded by these experiences, it is easy for developing young children who are still processing the world according to intuition…
Category: 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 9th Grade, For K-12 Teachers, For Parents, General Info Tags: children, delayed gratification, food desert, food security, hunger, impulsivity, instruction, K-12, learning, organic gardening, poverty, recycling, self-watering containers, sustainability, teaching, water conservation
Posted on April 28, 2017 by Anne Zachry
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About a year ago, I encountered my friend, Avanish, on Facebook through mutual online friends in the organic gardening realm of the web. We both had a common interest in sustainable living and our online conversations started around Learn & Grow. At about that…
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Posted on July 4, 2016 by Anne Zachry
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This last week has been a whirlwind of activity for KPS4Parents and its Learn & Grow Educational Series. While we were working with students and developing instructional content for children, the political and economic situation in Venezuela took an absolute turn for the worst….
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Posted on July 4, 2016 by admin
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Watch 4-year-old Emmalyn pick the ingredients for mint tea and salads and have a garden tea party in the Learn & Grow Educational SeriesSM test garden.
Posted on June 12, 2016 by admin
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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,…
Category: For K-12 Teachers, For Parents, For Students Tags: bucket, conservation, container, cook, food, garden, organic, parent, project, recycle, recycling, self-watering, squash, student, sub-irrigation, subirrigation, teacher, water