Sharon
Lovejoy's Resources for Teachers, Occupational and Horticultural
Therapists, and Home School Parents
Sharon
Lovejoy
Contributing Editor
Country Living GARDENER
Author & Illustrator
A Blessing of Toads: A Gardener's Guide to Living with Nature
Trowel & Error: Over 700 Shortcuts, Tips & Remedies for the Gardener
A Day in the Garden, an illustrated blank journal
Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots: Gardening Together with Children
Sunflower Houses: Inspiration from the Garden
Hollyhock Days: Garden Discoveries for Children of All Ages
The following links
offer helpful information and lesson plans for teachers, horticultural
and occupational therapist, and homeschool parents.
- NEW!
Junior Master
Gardeners (www.jmgkids.us)
An international youth gardening program of the University Cooperative
Extension network.
- Children's
Gardening resources from Virginia Tech: http://www.hort.vt.edu/human/Children'sG.html
- Thrive is the national (in U.K.)
horticultural charity that exists to enable disadvantaged, disabled
and older people to participate fully in the social and economic
life of the community. Information for visually impaired gardeners
at http://www.thrive.org.uk/page09_2.html
- The
Sensory Trust:
Creating inclusive environments
- Raises awareness of
good practice in urban and extra-urban greenspace design
and management
- Makes greenspace accessible
to as many people as possible
- Offers consultancy
and advice on inclusive design
- The Sensory Trust
provides factsheets
on
- Sensory Design
- Sensory Garden Design
Advice
- Therapeutic Horticulture
- Designing for Outdoor
Access
- Web Accessibility
- Tools
- Accessibility
- National Biological Information Infrastructure.
Click on "Teacher
Resources."
- NCAP
- Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
A nonprofit organization that has been helping reduce pesticide
use since 1977
PO Box 1393,
Eugene OR 97440
(541) 344-5044
- For
teachers who need supplies or grants and for people who want
to give to teachers Donorschoose.org.
- Parentingbookmark.com. The Complete Resource for
Raising Kids Who Care About Their World.
- MidCoast Teacher Store. Supplies for
teachers, homeschool parents, parents, and kids.
- Gigglemoose.com. Absolutely
wonderful site for parents, teacher, and kids. A MUST visit.
They also sell children's gardening tools.
- Jumping
Frog Research Institute. How can you resist visiting?
- "The Web Portal for Educators," visit
http://www.teach-nology.com.
- What is Yourmojo.com?
Yourmojo.com is an educational web portal, offering a host of
free resources for both students and teachers.How many links
does Yourmojo.com have? Yourmojo.com currently boasts over 20,000
curriculum specific links.
- Teacher Nework at
http://www.teachernet.com/.Valuable
information for every teacher or parent.
- Home Education Magazine:
A great resource. http://www.home-ed-magazine.com
- Great
source for the whole country. Check out Agriculture
In The Classroom
for lesson plans with intergrated curricula and state index.
- Themes
for lesson plans
at www.atozteacherstuff.com.
- Many links available
at Teachervision.com
- Check out these links
to ideas and curricula for school gardens from Texas A &
M.
- Information for teachers and students from
Missouri Botanical Garden.
- Project
Puffin with
puffin information and video clips and virtual puffin tour of
Eastern Egg Rock in Maine
- Thanks to MSNBC.com,
a great composting site at RotWeb
and loads of web resources at The
Gardening Launch Pad
- Scholastic's lesson plans and
parent send-home activities
- The Wilson Times , lots of good resource information
and links, plus a newsletter.
- Enchantedlearning.com
- A Floral Clock Lesson Plan as found in Sunflower
Houses.
- Everything one needs
to know about greenhouses
by Shane Smith, Director of the Cheyenne
Botanic Gardens and author of Greenhouse
Gardener's Companion.
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