UCSC+Garden+Modules

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 * Reviewed by Elizabeth Anderson**

This site has a bunch of modules designed to teach children about organic farming and gardening as well as resources for parents and educators. The site I posted above is a sort of blog that UCSC has. I decided to focus on [|this] module about garden scavenger hunts. There is a [|Google folder] on the site that has the scavenger hunts. One of them is a sheet to identify weeds; another is a "math worksheet" that has the children measure the garden.

I think that a garden scavenger hunt sounds like fun. It would teach children plant identification, and, if the right questions were asked, could teach the children a lot about the environment. Exploring and learning about ecosystems and their components helps people appreciate nature and want to protect it.

These modules were created by [|Life Lab], which is located on the [|University of California at Santa Cruz] campus. They have a farm on their campus. (I actually took part in a summer camp at UCSC when I was seven.)

I think that the whole blog should prove helpful to EcoEd at RPI, especially since it seems like it is updated every few months or so. Many of the modules could be used at RPI, with some modifications to suit the local environment if necessary.