 
 
 
The Burrow Book: Tunnel Into a World of Wildlife
- Shaila Awan
A Handful of Dirt - Raymond Bial
Life in a Bucket of Soil
 -Alvin & Virginia Silverstein
    
Victory Garden Kids' Book
- Marjorie Waters
Blue Potatoes, Orange Tomatoes: how to grow a rainbow garden - Rosalind Creasey
Grow Your Own Pizza: Gardening Plans and Recipes for Kids
- Constance Hardesty
 
 
Green Thumbs: A Kid's Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Gardening - Laurie Carlson
An Earthworm's Life
- John Himmelman
     
Compost Critters
- Bianca Lavies
The Vegetables We Eat - Gail Gibbons
Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden
- George Levenson
    
How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?
- Margaret McNamara
Apples and Pumpkins
- Anne Rockwell
Spud Goes Green
- Giles Thaxton
   
Starting Life: Tree
- Claire Llewellyn
From Seed to Pumpkin
- by Wendy Pfeffer
     
George's Secret Key to the Universe
- Lucy and Stephen Hawking
The Global Garden
- Kate Petty & Jennie Maizels
George Saves the World by Lunchtime
- Jo Readman & Ley Honor Roberts
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http://www.kidsgardening.com/
www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/firstgarden
* A guide to the world of fun and clever gardening
www.treesaremyfriends.org
* Trees Are My Friends Campaign
Educational and community mobilization campaign for encouraging urban youth and adults to become involved in the care of
trees in their neighborhoods.
www.arborday.org/kids/kidsdif.cfm
* Inspiring kids to plant, nurture, & celebrate trees
http://www.sactree.com/funStuff
TreesureHunt.pdf - identify leaves
Coloringbook.pdf - read, color, sign pledge
wordSearch.pdf - word search
www.sactree.com/php/eyespy
* cool eye spy games
www.sactree.com/php/memory
*challenging memory games
www.umass.edu/ent/BugNetMAP/k_home.html
- kids web, bug web, insect misconceptions
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http://soils.usda.gov/sqi/concepts/
soil_biology/sbinfo.html#Curriculum
* Curriculum materials for primary & secondary school teachers
Scientific Names of Plants.pdf
  
Worms Eat My Garbage: How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System- by Mary Appelhof
Worms Eat Our Garbage: Classroom Activities for a Better Environment
by Mary Appelhof, Mary Frances Fenton, and Barbara Loss Harris
Compost Learning Guide for Grades 4-8
(teachers guide)
http://stanslaughter.com/
clguide.html
 
Gardening with children
- by Beth Richardson
The Growing Classroom: Garden-Based Science - by Roberta Jaffe, Gary Appel, and Kate Murray
 
Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots: Gardening Together with Children - by Sharon Lovejoy
 
Sunflower Houses : Inspiration from the Garden - A Book for Children and Their Grown-Ups - by Sharon Lovejoy
 
A Child's Garden: 60 Ideas to Make Any Garden Come Alive for Children - Molly Dannenmaier
 
Beyond the Bean Seed: Gardening Activities for Grades K6 -
by Nancy Allen Jurenka & Rosanne J. Blass
If you are hesitant about jumping into a full-blown gardening program, if you don't have a lot of time with the group with which you are working, or are a classroom teacher in autumn wondering how to begin to garden...
 
Superkids: 250 Incredible Ways for Kids to Save the Planet - by Sasha Norris
 The Composters - Coloring Workbook - by Stan Slaughter
The story is of
The Composters, a group of critters that do Nature’s dirty work-recycling to produce a healthy, fertile world. For 3rd grade & up. Colored pencils best for line drawings.
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