Introduction

We know with pressure on teachers to meet California State Standards, it is hard to find time for students to maintain and use the school garden. Here are suggestions for using garden time to meet curriculum standards in addition to learning about basic gardening principles. We also suggest you refer to A Child’s Garden of Standards for ideas incorporating Standards at specific grades 2-6 for different curricular areas. Click this link http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/pn/rc/ap/pubdisplay.aspx?ID=001579 to get to the listing of publications. Click on C, scroll down to publication 001579, click on Child’s Garden of Standards to view the publication. Click this link http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/pn/rc/orderinfo.asp for ordering information.