Web Special:
Youth Gardening Resources from Symposium Sessions

For 2006 Youth Garden Symposium attendees who said they wished they could have attended more sessions, and for anyone who did not attend, here are links to the websites of session presenters. Presenters and attendees: if you have any further resource suggestions, feel free to send them to editor@ahs.org. Check back periodically for possible resource updates!

Sessions

A1 Mud Pies and Dirty Knees: Drawing Young Children Into the Garden http://www.riverbanks.org/

A3 The BIG GARDEN—How a Children’s Garden Puts children in Touch with Nature http://www.discoverygarden.org/

A4, B7 The George Washington Carver Garden: A New Educational Dimension and The Power of Objects in a Children’s Garden
http://www.mobot.org

A5, B8, A16, A19 Young People as Partners: three Projects that Engage Children and Youth in Garden-Based Learning, The Youth Horticulture Apprentice Program, Growing Young Citizen Scientists in the Vegetable Garden, and Community Gardens: A Garden Can Grow Anywhere

http://www.hort.cornell.edu/gbl
http://vegvariety.cce.cornell.edu/
http://www.ccetompkins.org/ithacachildrensgarden

B6 Designing Field Trips Teachers Can’t Resist: Use the Standards! http://www.nsta.org/standards

B9 Vegetable Gardening with Children
http://www.co.st-louis.mo.us/parks/childrensgarden.html

B10, A14 What Do Kids really Gain from Gardening? and From Animals to Zinnias: Essential Elements of a Children’s Garden
http://www.markamiller.net

 C11 Creating the Inquiry Journal
http://www.shawnature.org/

C12 Gardening Above the Tree-Tops
http://www.stlouischildrens.org/

A13 Best Plants for Connecting Children with Their Environment
http://www.mdc.mo.gov/

A15 Growing a Green Generation
http://csdc.unh.edu/

A17, B29 http://www.gatewaygreening.org

A18 Hudson Youth Garden Project: A Year-Round Outdoor Classroom
Missouri Botanical Garden affiliate

A20 Discovering Our roots for Shoots
http://4hgarden.msu.edu/main.html

A22 Mats, Rope, Paper, and Dye: Plants and Textiles
http://www.hort.cornell.edu/plantsandtextiles

A23 Metamorphosis: Changing Children’s Lives with Butterflies
http://www.bgso.org/

B25 Connecting Children to Nature3: Ecological Design that Promotes Play
http://www.earlyspace.com

B26 Bultivating Carnivores: Catching Kids’ Interest with Carnivorous Plants http://www.sandiegozoo.org

B28 Growing Up with a Children’s Garden - Conception Through the Terrible Twos
http://www.meijergardens.org/gardens_experience/childrens_garden.php

B30 The Growing Connection
http://ahs.org/youth_gardening/growing_connection.htm



Pre-Symposium Workshop:

Connecting Kids with Food

http://www.cbgarden.org
http://www.asapconnections.org/

Websites Referenced by Keynote Speakers:

Richard Louv: http://www.connectforkids.org/
http://www.nwf.org/playoutside/
(Green Hour blog, link to Louv articles)

Peter Raven: http://www.globalfootprint.org

Caroline Lewis: http://www.fairchildgarden.org

Norm Lownds: http://4hgarden.msu.edu/talks/

Additional Websites Recommended by Presenters:

http://www.schoolgardenwizard.org
http://www.jmgkids.us/
http://www.teachershelper.com
http://www.lessonplanspage.com
http://www.kinderkorner.com
http://www.teachers.net
http://www.preschooleducation.com
http://www.123child.com
http://www.Lifelab.org (K-5)
http://www.monarchwatch.org
http://www.grownative.org


Attendee-affiliated Websites:

http://www.natickfarm.org
http://www.added-value.org
http://www.foodandsocietyfelows.org
http://www.slowfood.org
http://www.kidsgardening.com