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| Edgewood Elementary students harvest lettuce to make a salad |
The Garden Classroom
Greenleaf
Gardens Inc. provides garden and ecology activities that are an extension of a students regular classroom education. We believe
that gardening can foster students overall understanding and appreciation of the natural world and that it can be used to
enhance and strengthen, from a practical, hands-on prospective, existing classroom curriculum. Our garden educators use a
variety of cross-disciplinary studies to reinforce the content taught in the New York State content standards. Our garden-based
lessons give further meaning to the study of science, math, social studies and arts and meet the needs of many different learning
styles.
Integrating inquiry based, horticulture, sustainability
and placed based education cultivates holistic systems approach to learning, critical thinking, understanding and problem
solving.
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| Quaker Ridge 5th and 2nd graders examine soil |
