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When students at the Farnsworth Middle School set out to start a garden, they examined the origins of our food and the agricultural system that produces it. "The students were concerned about the negative aspects of chemical-dependent agriculture, but...
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Plants need people and people need plantsSuch a great relationship doesn't happen just by chanceWe give them the things they needThey give us all they canOh, the joys of cultivating plants! Ohio second graders sing this song from a local music/plant...
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"The description in The White Stallion of a young girl heading West during the 1800s intrigued my third graders," reports Barbara Vlasvich from Aurora, IL. "After we wandered through the tall grass maze in a local prairie preserve and talked about the...
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Wildflowers in a can would be the last thing a group of fourth graders in Clinton, WI, would plant in their schoolyard. They've set their sights on the return of the natives, the tallgrass prairies, that, says teacher Kim Lowman Vollmer, are more...
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"There is such a push to teach kids about biodiversity and interdependence through studying rainforests that are thousands of miles away, but it's much more powerful and effective to first explore these same concepts up close in our own backyards," says...
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"When my third graders asked a local naturalist to help them identify wild plants growing on our school grounds, we never imagined their query would lead to a long-term environmental action project," reports Minneapolis, MN, teacher Sherri Rogers. The...
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"A few years ago one of my students was harassed by other kids for reading a book about an African American," reports Warren, PA, middle school teacher Mark Davis. "When I shared this with my ecology club students, they wondered what they could do to...
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During a unit on rainforests, Pat Murray's 2nd graders in Westerville, Oh, wondered about what happens when forests are cut for farming, and the same food crops are grown on poor soil year after year. Their questions inspired an activity idea for their...
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"Our school property was much in need of shade," says Omaha, NE, parent Sarah Newman. "While doing some Internet research on trees, I discovered the American Forests: Famous and Historic Trees catalog, which features young trees representing important...
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Before Photo: Site of the future LEGO Rain GardenThe 10 fifth grade students in the FIRST LEGO League Team at Greenbrier Intermediate School in Chesapeake, Virginia received the following challenge in the fall of 2005: "...
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