Digging into Soils - Workshop April 24th 9AM-4pm
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We'll head outside to learn about the important role living soils play in healthy plants, better nutrition, water conservation and storing carbon. Participants in this workshop will learn how to use soil and the compost pile, a meaningful context, as a source of investigation to engage students in Next Generation Science and Engineering Practices.
School gardens provide living laboratories for investigation-based learning. Working with soils gets kids outside and engaged in learning by doing. Teaching about soil prepares our students to better understand their world and to conserve natural resources throughout their lives. This workshop is geared for grades 2-5. |
In this workshop particpants will:
Be Inspired about the important role living soils play in healthy plants, better nutrition, water conservation and in storing carbon which can help slow climate change
Investigate the nature of interdependence by considering how matter cycles and energy flows in a soil ecosystem to better understand the role of decomposition in a school garden compost pile. Instructors will share soil based investigations that use NGSS practices!
Dig into compost-making in the garden from hot piles to using worms! Learn how to regenerate lifeless soils into healthy ecosystems
Be Inspired about the important role living soils play in healthy plants, better nutrition, water conservation and in storing carbon which can help slow climate change
Investigate the nature of interdependence by considering how matter cycles and energy flows in a soil ecosystem to better understand the role of decomposition in a school garden compost pile. Instructors will share soil based investigations that use NGSS practices!
Dig into compost-making in the garden from hot piles to using worms! Learn how to regenerate lifeless soils into healthy ecosystems
Location: Tarsiers Room and Ceres Garden at the OReilly Center, 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472
Date: April 24, 2019 9am-4pm
Fee: $135
Discount Rate: $114.75: Receive a 15% discount if you come with a team member or if you register by April 10th.
Mail a check to: P.O. Box 1367, Sebastopol, CA 95473
CEU credit available
Garden Lunch provided & Snacks provided
Questions? Please email Laurel
Date: April 24, 2019 9am-4pm
Fee: $135
Discount Rate: $114.75: Receive a 15% discount if you come with a team member or if you register by April 10th.
Mail a check to: P.O. Box 1367, Sebastopol, CA 95473
CEU credit available
Garden Lunch provided & Snacks provided
Questions? Please email Laurel
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Instructors:
Carrie Strohl is the founder of The School Garden Doctor, a nonprofit organization that empowers teachers, schools, and communities to grow learning gardens that enhance science education, nurture wellness, and foster environmental literacy. She specializes in curriculum integration, program development, and professional learning. |
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Sara McCamant is a veteran gardener and runs the amazing garden program at Ceres Community Project. She will share her passion for building healthy soils and changing the world!
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Laurel Anderson is a long time garden educator with a passion for sharing the joys of the garden with youth. She is currently very interested in schoolyard habitats, seed saving, heirloom beans and Monarchs!! She is currently on the board of directors of the School Garden Network and is partnering with the US Fish & Wildlife Service on our local Schoolyard Habitat program.
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Eric Jordon & Sara Phoenix –
MakeSoil is founded on the belief that making soil together is one of the most transformative actions people can take, not just to regenerate the planet, but also in building resilient communities, and more connected individuals. MakeSoil is a decentralized solution to our food waste crisis, raising Soil Makers to turn the waste going to landfills into planet-saving soil instead, -and as a teacher, your impact is even more powerful. Go to MakeSoil.org to learn more, and be sure to register your classroom's garden as a Soil Making Site on the global map! |