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 May 22, 2020 by Anne Zachry
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In our 3rd episode of Food for Thought, our director and creator of the Learn & Grow Educational Series discusses how to use gardening to teach kids about systems, how they work, and how they interact with each other to create larger systems. References:…
Category: General Info Tags: academic, academic standards, bronfenbrenner, common core, container, food, food desert, food security, food-safe, garden, gardener, gardening, gestalt, home school, home-school, homeschool, hunger relief, learn & grow, learn & grow educational series, learning, lesson plan, life lesson, organic, organic gardening, parent, school, self watering, self-watering, self-watering containers, selfwatering, state standards, student, 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