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Calculate Your Ideal Worm Herd
Calculate Your Ideal Worm Herd Ready to reduce your food waste, give back to your school garden and give students an opportunity to observe a thriving ecosystem? Why not bring a vermin-compost bin (a.k.a. a worm bin) into your classroom and open up a world of...
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New Little Green Thumbs Teacher Portal
Little Green Thumbs Teacher Portal The LGT Teacher Portal is the home-base of the Little Green Thumbs Program, an exclusive digital hub of online learning resources, growing information, troubleshooting support, teacher order forms, program updates and inspiration!...
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Little Green Pen Pals
Little Green Pen Pals Project We invite our Gr. 1 to 4 Little Green Thumbs classrooms to take part in Little Green Pen Pals, which engages students in cultural exchange, inquiry-based learning and literacy, as well as opportunities to build friendships across Canada!...
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Incorporating Indigenous Perspectives into your Garden Learning
Incorporating Indigenous Perspectives into your Garden Learning It is important to acknowledge and celebrate the cultural identities of all students represented in your learning cohorts. It is particularly important in a Canadian context to acknowledge Indigenous...
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Our Favourite Garden-based Nutrition Resources
Our Favourite Garden-based Nutrition Resources How do we make the healthy food choice the easy choice for kids? Evidence says garden-based nutrition education can have a big impact. This is how you can put it to work! In a time when conversations about food are so...
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School Gardens Build Environmental Awareness
School Gardens Build Environmental Awareness “It is impossible for a child to work [in a] garden without tuning himself to certain universal laws…while he is grubbing in the earth, stirring the soil untiringly so as to let in the moisture and the air, nature’s secrets...
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Inquiry Learning in the Garden
What makes a seed a seed? Do all plants need the same things? Can plants grow in the dark? Questions like this naturally sprout in a classroom garden. Nowhere is an inquiry-based learning approach more appropriate than when working with nature, plants and composting.
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Where Does Our Food Come From? Our Favourite Ag & Food System Resources
Where Does Our Food Come From? Our Favourite Ag & Food System Resources One of the goals of the Little Green Thumbs garden is to help students create meaningful, informed connections between the food they grow and eat, and the agricultural processes involved in...
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Garden Your Mind
Garden Your Mind There is a saying, “Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers, or you can grow weeds”. We can tend our minds, just as we tend our gardens, but instead of growing carrots or tomatoes, we grow our brains (or the synaptic...
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