Start with a Seedling:
Literacy Learning in an Intergenerational Gardening and Food Program
In 2014, I invited three local Kindergarten teachers to engage in an Intergenerational experiment. I would gather volunteers to come into their classrooms and together we would design a year of gardening and food related activities. This program was based loosely on the very successful Landed Learning program at the University of British Columbia. As a researcher I know educators often have fears about losing instructional time or not being able to "cover the curriculum". In this way I am currently studying how participation in this program can enhance children's language and literacy learning opportunities.
The first paper documenting this project was published in the journal Language and Literacy.
Early in our time together the local CBC radio interviewed me about the project and came out to see us when we took a field trip to a local community garden.
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