A Librarian's Guide to Cultivating an Elementary School Garden

This is the guidebook you need to justify, design, and implement a school garden to improve students' academics!

• Encourages educators to use school gardens to improve students' academics, perspectives on the environment, and their nutritional habits

• Presents an overview of the history of school gardens, the benefits to students, and their importance to local ecological communities

• Highlights the five most common habitats in detail: wetlands, urban, vegetable, wildscape, and butterfly

• Serves as a resource book for teachers and librarians who want to plan and implement a garden on their campus

The purpose of this composite resource book is to assist both private and public school librarians in cultivating a school garden on their campus. A Librarian's Guide to Cultivating an Elementary School Garden will provide information on funding sources, guidance on designing and maintaining a garden, related books and instructional activities, and webliographies.

Bonnie Mackey is an assistant professor, Early Childhood Education, University of Houston, Texas–Clear Lake.

Jennifer Mackey Stewart is a freelance writer and an instructor with Round Rock (Texas) Independent School District's Community Education program.

Bonnie Mackey is an assistant professor, Early Childhood Education, University of Houston, Texas–Clear Lake.

Jennifer Mackey Stewart is a freelance writer and an instructor with Round Rock (Texas) Independent School District's Community Education program.