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Garden education programs have the academic documentation to prove that they are a
creative, viable, and successful way to enhance learning. However, a key limitation
to using gardens for learning is the lack of garden learning resources correlated
to applicable science standards. The purpose of this project was to review and analyze
the literature to determine the impacts of garden-based learning on students, obtain
an understanding of the prevalence of school gardens in the state of North Carolina,
and determine what tools elementary school teachers need to improve the access to
and efficacy of school gardens for their classes. Based on this research and on input
from my client, NC Cooperative Extension, I correlated four reputable garden-based
curricula to the NC Science Essential Standards and produced a database that allows
North Carolina educators to identify individual lessons within the curricula that
are directly aligned with specific science standards.
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