School Food Garden PD
Resources presented at the starting your school food garden PD on September 12th 2009 at Black Forest Primary School and Nazareth College are now available for download:
Powerpoint Presentations
Harry Harrison - Getting started with school gardens (300KB)
Karyn Duance - An introduction to the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Association (900KB)
Audio Podcasts of Powerpoint Presentations
Harry Harrison - Getting started with school gardens (4MB)
Karyn Duance - An introduction to the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Association (3MB)
School Food Garden Curriculum Planning PD
Presentations and resources shared by teachers at this PD held on May 13th 2010 at Allenby Gardens Primary School.
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Video of Teacher Presentations
1 - Vicki Coard from Allenby Gardens PS discusses how their school uses the garden and links it with curriculum
Download Vicki's notes prepared for her presentation (PDF 360 KB)
2 - Kate Hubmayer from Black Forest PS details some of the art activities they do in their garden.
Download a PDF of Kate's Powerpoint (4 MB)
3 - Graeme Hunt, also from Black Forest PS, shows us how the garden is linked through the curriculum.
4 - Karyn Duance from the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Association tells us how many schools use food gardens in their teaching.
Suggested Texts & Reference Books
Uno’s Garden, by Graeme Base
Junior Primary Story Book
Plants, Science Activities for 6 to 9 Year Olds, by Bourke and Gabrovec, Earth and Life Science Series.
Experiments and activities relating to Plants
Creepy Crawlies, Sequential Across-the-Curriculum Activities, Ages 5-6, by Brand and Bacich, Early Theme Series
Experiments and activities relating to invertebrates
New Plants from Old, Simple, Natural, No Cost Plant Propagation, by Jackie French
Outdoor Classrooms, By Nutall and Millington.
Seed to Seed, Food Gardens in Schools, by Fanton and Immig
You Can Have Your Permaculture and Eat it too, by Robin Clayfield
Click here for other food garden related titles available from our loan library.
Garden related PowerPoints
Below are a mix of student and teacher developed powerpoints provided by Pam Edwards – Pennington Junior Primary.
Getting involved in the school garden (PDF 788KB)
Provides details of student involvement in food gardening at Pennington Junior P.S.
Herbs (PDF 956KB)
A presentation to introduce herbs to students.
Our Aboriginal Students (PDF 1.2MB)
Details of a project to involve Aboriginal students and parents in growing plants with cultural heritage values.
Science experiment findings (PDF 5.61MB)
A record of a seed growing experiment.
What Bantams look like (PDF 266KB)
A description of the features of a bantam. Includes students' art work.
Suggested Student Activities
Garden related Junior Primary Resources from Pam Edwards,
Pennington Junior Primary School
Finding out about seeds using the 5 senses (PDF 94KB)
A lesson plan outlining a great practical activity for JP students to explore seeds with their 5 senses.
Bird watching in your backyard (PDF 44KB)
Student work sheet.
Drawing a frill necked lizard (PDF 1.5MB)
Egg puzzle for Kids (PDF 439KB)
Eggcellent holiday activities (PDF 62KB)
Food, garden and nature based activities for school holidays.
Frog Jokes (PDF 36KB)
Frog Life Cycle (PDF 32.1KB)
My itsy bitsy egg book (PDF 58KB)
Students draw animals that come from eggs in this fold-up book.
Resource provided by another teacher:
Designing with Plants handout (PDF 80KB)
A work sheet that encourages students to investigate multiple uses of plants.
Middle school and above
Woodend Primary School
Plant of the month fact sheets and quiz sheets
Ruby Saltbush
Tomato
Curriculum Plans
Suggested yearly activities - A curriculum plan for the whole school.
St Martins School – Evette Sunset
Laid out on a circular calendar (PDF 172KB)
With background information and summary table (PDF 189KB)
Thinkers Key for Junior Primary (DOC 74KB)
Developed staff at Richmond Primary 2009 and includes input from this Curriculum in school food gardens PD 2010
Thinkers Key for Middle and Upper Primary (DOC 72KB)
Developed staff at Richmond Primary 2009 and includes input from this Curriculum in school food gardens PD 2010
Hedgend maze edible gardens matrix (PDF)
http://www.hedgend.com.au/
Other Resources
Interactive toolkit (PDF 115KB)
A list of items that may be useful to support learning in a school garden. Also includes tips for linking schools with the local community.
Herb Spirals (PDF 131KB)
A diagram and explanation of the function of a herb spiral.
From the book You Can Have Your Permaculture and Eat it too, by Robin Clayfield.
Provided by Jacqui Hunter - Hunter Gatherer Designs
Trellis Ideas (PDF 110KB)
Several diagrams of trellis designs for use in food gardens.
From the book You Can Have Your Permaculture and Eat it too, by Robin Clayfield.
Provided by Jacqui Hunter - Hunter Gatherer Designs