Greening School Grounds: Creating Habitats for Learning (Green Teacher)

Bys: Sylvia Bernstein, Tim Grant, Gail Littlejohn

Recently, thousands of North American schools have begun to take a critical look at their grounds and realize the enormous potential for transforming barren expanses of asphalt into a diversity of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865714363
• ISBN13: 9780865714366
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: New Society Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.3" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

An outstanding anthology of twenty-three articles

Tim Grant and Gail Littlejohn effectively collaborate to draw from the pages of "Green Teacher" an outstanding anthology of twenty-three articles showcasing K-12 strategies for renewing and enhancing a physical environment conducive to children's learning processes and attitudes in Greening School Grounds: Creating Habitats For Learning. More than just a collective overview, the contributors offer a wealth of ideas and examples dealing with a wide range of projects including vegetable and butterfly gardens to an amphibian oasis and avian attractors. There are curriculum tie-ins, activities, and lists of resources. Greening School Grounds is especially recommended to PTA members, school boards, school administrative personnel, classroom instructors, and anyone with an interest in regard to improving the environmental quality of a private, parochial, or public school curriculums.