Articles

Organizations

ARTICLES:

• “ School Gardens Plus Nutrition Lessons Equal Science Literacy,” Debra Shapiro, NSTA Reports , Feb. 2007. 
  


• “Environmental Education Saves the Day," Sarah Haines and Cynthia Kilpatrick, Science and Children, NSTA Press, April 2007.
  


• ”Garden Based Learning in Basic Education: A Historical Review,” Aarti Subramaniam, M.A., Graduate Research Assistant, 4-H Center for Youth Development, University of California, Davis. Summer 2002.
  
  
• “The Schoolyard Habitat Movement: What It Is and Why Children Need It,” Mary Rivkin, Ph.D., University of Baltimore County Education Department Early Childhood Education Program, Early Childhood Education Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1, 1997
  
  
• “A Case For Schoolyard Habitats” Sara Griffen, Past Coordinator of the Schoolyard Habitats® project. Pennsylvania Forests. Fall 1997.
  
  
• ”Down By the Schoolyard,” Stephen R. Coffee, Executive Director, Arlingtonians for a Clean Environment.Virginia Journal of Education . March 1998.
  
  
• ”Interaction with Nature during the Middle Years: It’s Important in Children’s Development and Nature’s Future,” Randy White.
  
  
• ”Child's Play: An empirical study of the relationship between the physical form of schoolyards and children's behavior,” Lianne Fishman. 2001.
  
  
• “Children's Outdoor Play & Learning Environments: Returning to Nature,” White, R. & V. Stoecklin Early Childhood News , 1998.
  
  
• Malone, Karen & Tranter, Paul (2003). “Children's Environmental Learning and the Use, Design and Management of Schoolgrounds,” Children, Youth and Environments 2003, Vol 13, No.2.
  
  
• ”Exploring Environmental Education in the Schoolyard Habitat,” Environmental Education and Training Partnership Resource Library. January 1998, Number 23.
  
  
• ”School Garden-Based Environmental Education: A Case Study,” Environmental Education and Training Partnership Resource Library. August 1999, Number 54.
  
  
• "Stewardship Begins at School: In England, a Superlative Example of an Ecological Schoolyard," J. William Thompson, editor. American Society of Landscape Architects. Landscape Architecture Magazine. Washington, DC: June 2003, pages 42, 44, 46, 48.
  
  
• ”Garden Based Learning: Considering assessment from a learner-centered approach,” Aarti Subramaniam, M.A., Graduate Research Assistant, 4-H Center for Youth Development, University of California, Davis. Fall 2003.
  
  
• "Rain Gardens Soak Up Urban Storm Water Pollution, " TerraDaily, Jan. 27, 2006.
  
  
• "Rain Gardens Blossom as Storm-water management tool, " Liz Thrall, Environmental Science and Technology Online Dec. 28, 2005.
  


• Many research articles can also be found on the following Web sites:

  Children and Nature Network

  Landscape and Human Health Laboratory

  California School Garden Network – follow links to resources then research

ORGANIZATIONS:

• Boston Schoolyard Initiative
  The Boston Schoolyard Initiative, formally launched in 1995, was created to help hasten the completion of schoolyard improvement projects in the city. Their Web site describes on-going and completed projects and provides a good overview of the city’s schoolyard initiatives.

• California School Garden Network
  Their publication Gardens for Learning - Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden can be downloaded from their website.

• EcoSchool Design™
  EcoSchool Design™ seeks to assist schools, and those who care about them, in transforming paved schoolyards into vibrant ecosystems for outdoor learning. Their site offers information about gardens, water, energy, waste and many other schoolyard greening topics.

• Evergreen
  Evergreen is a Canadian non-profit environmental organization with a mandate to bring nature to cities through naturalization projects. One of Evergreen’s core programs, Learning Grounds, brings teachers, students and neighbors together to transform traditionally barren asphalt and turf school grounds into natural outdoor classrooms.

• Garden Mosaics
  The mission of Garden Mosaics is to connect youth and elders to investigate the mosaic of plants, people and cultures in gardens, to learn about science, and to act together to enhance their community. Their web site provides ideas for lessons, activities and projects as well as background information on garden-realted topics.
  
  

• Growing Schools
  Growing Schools is a government program based in the United Kingdom that aims to harness the full potential of the outdoor classroom as a teaching and learning resource. Their Web site offers lesson plans and related case studies.

• Learning Through Landscapes
  LTL is a large, nonprofit membership organization that is working to improve school grounds in the UK. They encourage schools to develop multifaceted outdoor teaching resources, and have written many excellent publications that are available through the website.

• Long Term Ecological Research Network: Schoolyard LTER Page
  This site describes The Long Term Ecological Research Network’s efforts to combine scientific research and science education. It provides information about various study sites and the data they’ve collected.

• Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education (MAEOE) has a new section on starting schoolyard habitats.  The Web site also includes a section on the Maryland Green Schools program.

• Massachusetts Studies Project: Schoolyard Greening
  This site provides detailed information on organizing, designing and maintaining a schoolyard greening project.

• National Wildlife Foundation: Schoolyard Habitats
  The National Wildlife Foundation’s Schoolyard Habitats Program has a comprehensive Web site with related research and resources to help improve your schoolyard.

• North American Association for Environmental Education: Schoolyard Ecology
  The site contains useful Schoolyard Ecology links.

• San Fran Green School Alliance
  Formed in March 2001, the San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance is a collaboration of non-profits working to promote inclusive, community driven processes that create and maintain healthy, environmentally sustainable learning environments in San Francisco's schools.

• School Garden Wizard
  Step-by-step guide to starting a school garden project.  School Garden Wizard has been created for America's K-12 school community through a partnership between the United States Botanic Garden and Chicago Botanic Garden.

• The Connecticut Schoolyard Habitat Network
  The Schoolyard Habitat Network (SHN) is a Connecticut-based collaborative, established in 1998, dedicated to promoting 'hands-on' environmental education on school property.

• The Edible Schoolyard
  The mission of the Edible Schoolyard at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, California is to create and sustain an organic garden and landscape that is wholly integrated into the school's curriculum and lunch program.

• The Rainwater Environmental Alliance for Learning (REAL People)
  The REAL Schools Initiative has helped to establish more than 25 outdoor learning environments on the ground at elementary schools in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. They are committed to supporting the creation of outdoor classrooms through providing inspiration and grants for rainwater projects.
  
  
• The Rhode Island School Gardens Coalition (SGC)
  Convened by the Rhode Island Sustainability Coalition, the SGC is a growing partnership of organizations and business, teachers, students and parents, and community volunteers working to create and maintain school gardens.