Down-to-Earth
Enriching Learning through Gardening - Activities for Grades 6-8

Down-to-Earth is a self-contained gardening-oriented science curriculum. Children use the scientific method to explore solutions to problems involving the growth of food and fiber crops. Working in small teams, the children are encouraged to make decisions like scientists as they plant and harvest their gardens. Guided by an adult, children work their way through a variety of gardening-related activities. Through this hands-on, minds-on program, youth get the basics of botany, the gist of gardening, the essentials of ecology and much more. Youth will use gardening to stimulate their senses and cultivate science process and life skills. The 88-page activity guide is an excellent resource for school enrichment programs, organized 4-H clubs, school-age child care educators, after-school programs and nature centers.

Publication # BU-07714 is available from Media Distribution Center