WORKSHOP 1:
​Teaching Math and Literacy in the Garden

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About

This workshop is for informal and formal educators interested in building or sustaining their school garden and learning more about utilizing the garden as a tool to teach curriculum standards and promote mindfulness. Educators will be grouped based on the age group they work with and will rotate through each learning station.

Participants will learn hands-on skills that will help them complete school garden projects and come away with simple, easy to implement lesson plans that use the garden to teach math and literacy.
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​Continuing education credits (.6 CEUs) offered through Appalachian State University's Math and Science Education Center for K-8 North Carolina school teachers (in Math, Science, Literacy and/or Technology).

Scholarships are available for public school teachers. Email luci@brwia.org for more information on receiving a scholarship.
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Schedule

11:00 | Registration and welcome
11:30-12:30 | 1st Station 
12:30- 1:30 | LUNCH
1:30- 2:30 | 2nd Station
2:30-3:30 | 3rd Station
3:30- 4:00 | Reflections and next steps

LEARNING STATION DESCRIPTIONS
Participants will be grouped based on the age group they work with and will rotate through each learning station

Season Extension with Lon Coulter

​Learn how to utilize season extension technology in your school garden to grow food when school is in session.  Explore a variety of season extension techniques and learn how to build your own simple row cover for less than $50. 

Growing Success in your School Garden with Kristy Hackler

Learn how to plan and successfully run your school garden with tried and true strategies from horticulturist and educator, Kristy Hackler. ​Practice a variety of skills including outdoor classroom management techniques, succession planting, garden design sketching, and year-long garden planning.

Reading, Writing, and Relaxing in the Garden with Courtney Baines

Explore books and literacy activities that you can utilize in your classroom anytime of the year.  Learn about the emotional and sensory benefits of a school garden as well as practice a kid-friendly “veggie yoga” series that you can share with your students outside or in.  Come away with great ideas of how to integrate  language arts and wellness in this one hour learning station.​

About the presenters:

Lon Coulter earned a BS in Agriculture an an MA in Education from Ohio State University.  He and his wife Carol own and operate Heritage Homestead goat dairy, which they built themselves from scratch.  He previously served as head of farm maintenance at Appalachian State University's Sustainable Development Teaching and Research farm. He's done many things over the years including mechanic, builder, Outward Bound instructor, and has taught at Wilkes Community College and Appalachian State University. Other passions include blacksmithing, hide tanning, baskets, brooms, dry stack stone, gardening and cooking.

Kristy Hackler is a Montessori Teacher, horticulturalist, and creator/Director of Farm Camp. Kristy's  years of teaching experience combined with a strong farming background and running her own business as a landscaper inspired her to create the Farm Camp at Mountain Pathways Montessori School. The farm provides an intensive sustainable farming and gardening experience that focuses on basic gardening skills as well as harvesting, processing, and marketing farm products. Students have benefited from the farm by learning creative problem solving skills, the fundamentals of a sustainable food system, and practical life applications of science,  technology, engineering, and math   through hands on experience. 

Courtney Baines is the Executive Director of Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture and founder of the Lettuce Learn Project. She previously taught Earth/Environmental Science at Watauga High School and has been studying and teaching garden-based/sustainability education for nearly a decade.  She will share her creativity and passion by offering a plethora of resources and inspiration to help you bring learning to life in your classroom-- while also meeting the standards you are required to meet.

Location
​Mountain Pathways Farm Camp
453 Howards Creek Road
Boone, NC