Greening School Grounds: Creating Habitats for Learning (Green Teacher) [Paperback]

Tim Grant (Editor), Gail Littlejohn (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Green Teacher | Publication Date: May 1, 2001

This compendium of articles from Green Teacher, North America’s leading environmental education magazine, brings together the best strategies for transforming barren expanses of school grounds into natural spaces for learning and playing. Greening School Grounds provides an overview of the school grounds greening movement, complete project plans, and subject integration. From vegetable and butterfly gardens to an amphibian oasis and avian attractors, this comprehensive resource offers a trove of curriculum tie-ins, activities, and plans for educators, parents, and students. Includes extensive resources.

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About the Author

Tim Grant and Gail Littlejohn are former high school teachers and the editors of Green Teacher magazine. Published in Toronto since 1991, Green Teacher is an award-winning non-profit quarterly offering practical ideas for K-12 educators and parents who seek to foster environmental literacy and global awareness in young people.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: New Society Publishers; 1 edition (May 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0865714363
• ISBN-13: 978-0865714366
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,185,766 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding anthology of twenty-three articles, July 5, 2001

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This review is from: Greening School Grounds: Creating Habitats for Learning (Green Teacher) (Paperback)

Tim Grant and Gail Littlejohn effectively collaborate to draw from the pages of "Green Teacher" an outstanding anthology of twenty-three articles showcasing K-12 strategies for renewing and enhancing a physical environment conducive to children's learning processes and attitudes in Greening School Grounds: Creating Habitats For Learning. More than just a collective overview, the contributors offer a wealth of ideas and examples dealing with a wide range of projects including vegetable and butterfly gardens to an amphibian oasis and avian attractors. There are curriculum tie-ins, activities, and lists of resources. Greening School Grounds is especially recommended to PTA members, school boards, school administrative personnel, classroom instructors, and anyone with an interest in regard to improving the environmental quality of a private, parochial, or public school curriculums.