Gardening with children is hands-on outdoor education at its finest. With abundant opportunities for experiential learning, the garden is, in many ways, an ideal classroom, and an increasing number of educational initiatives are recognising the many long- and short-term benefits that come with a gardening program for children. Growing Sustainable Children is an indispensable resource for anyone already teaching in a gardening programme, for those starting a programme, or for anyone working with children in a garden or other outdoor setting as a homeschooler, community organiser, or friend of the earth. The book includes a detailed age-appropriate curriculum and activity listings from nursery and kindergarten through high school, as well as a useful overview of the history of gardening education and the evolving consciousness of children.

Down where worms wriggle and microbes squirm, there's a whole world waiting to be discovered... Under Your Feet delves beneath the Earth's surface and explores the diverse wonders hidden there. Encounter creatures of the deep and marvel at the mind-boggling size of the humongous fungus - the biggest organism in the world. Learn how one handful of ordinary soil contains more organisms than there are people on Earth, and carry out experiments using dirt from your own back garden. Under Your Feet offers you the opportunity to expand your knowledge of the natural world and soil-dwelling creatures big and small. Bursting with colourful illustrations and photography, this is the perfect book for budding young plant experts, animal fanatics, and geologists, and anyone who is curious about the ground we walk on.

Making big science topics just the right size for little readers as we explore plants. Did you know that plants make their food from sunshine? But that some plants eat bugs? And some plants have been around since before the time of the dinosaurs? Plants are pretty amazing, and we'd like to tell you why... So sit back, and let expert scientist and CBeebies writer Emily Dodd tell you all about plants. With bite-sized text, facts to make you say 'WOW', and easy-to-understand explanations, big science topics are now just the right size for readers 4 years plus. Brilliantly illustrated by Chorkung, this is the perfect little book for readers who are just discovering all the AMAZING STUFF in the world around them.

In this exuberant and lyrical follow-up to the award-winning Over and Under the Snow, discover the wonders that lie hidden between stalks, under the shade of leaves . . . and down in the dirt. Explore the hidden world and many lives of a garden through the course of a year! Up in the garden, the world is full of green-leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt exists a busy world-earthworms dig, snakes hunt, skunks burrow-populated by all the animals that make a garden their home.

Craft meets STEAM in these lively books that will help you design, build and create! Get ready to build your very own biosphere or mini-garden! From fountains to greenhouses grounds and grass art, the step-by-step projects will give you all the instructions you need to make every element a model biosphere needs. Every project has been designed to work using things you can find lying around at home, like disposable containers and packaging, and basic art and craft equipment. Why not check out the other books in the Maker Models series? Each book focuses on a place and will go through creating various parts of the structure. You could learn to make a space centre, a fairground, a transport hub, a mini-garden and biosphere or a theatre and film set and all the elements that constitute them. For children aged 9+, this illustrated series will be great for rainy days and science days and a good inspiration for DT classes and clubs.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama had an idea. A big, inspiring, and exciting idea! She would grow the largest kitchen garden ever at the White House. This wouldn't be easy, since she'd never gardened before. But where should she start? What tools did she need? What would she plant? Everyone needs help when they're learning something for the first time, even the First Lady of the United States. So she gathered the help of local students, the White House staff, and even President Barack Obama. Together, they wouldn't just grow a garden--they would inspire a nation!

This title offers fantastic gardening ideas for 5-12 year olds, from growing fruit and vegetables and fun with flowers to wildlife gardening and craft projects. It includes 120 fabulous projects, with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and more than 1200 stunning photographs to help children learn all about how plants grow. It includes topics ranging from edible treats and flower power to handicrafts, wildlife gardening and indoor ideas, as well as a useful directory of the most popular garden plants. It is the winner of the prestigious Garden Media Guild Practical Book of the Year Award. Getting your hands dirty and growing your own fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers in the garden is great fun. From flowering wellies, grotesque gourds and bird baths to wind chimes, butterfly pots and grass head men, there is a huge range of exciting projects that you can do in and out of the garden, whatever the weather. The book contains chapters covering everyday techniques, fruit and vegetables, craft projects, wildlife gardening and indoor gardening, plus a directory of plant profiles. Clear instructions and beautiful photographs make following the projects easy, while tips and growing ideas provide inspiration and encourage experimentation.

This interactive book helps children understand plants and how they grow. Children can use their pen to label diagrams of plants, find out what plants need to grow, look at reproduction, pollination and habitats and identify different plants. The durable, wipe-clean pages allow children to practise again and again, as they learn valuable skills.

This title includes fantastic ideas for making things, growing plants and flowers and attracting wildlife, with 60 practical projects and 175 photographs. It offers over 60 fun, child-friendly projects for gardening, with ideas for cultivating flowers, growing fruit and vegetables, making crafty projects and attracting insects, birds and animals. It contains an introduction with all the gardening basics includes advice on safety, equipment, understanding plants and a guide to commonly used gardening terms. It helps you grow a hyacinth in a glass, have tomatoes tumbling down the wall, spell your name in flowers, shape a den out of bamboo and make a mini-beast shelter. Every project features an at-a-glance 'you will need' list, growing times and a star rating guide to show you how easy or hard it is. Each idea has simple step-by-step instructions and there are over 175 fantastic colour photographs showing you what to do. A list of popular plants shows how to grow and use the plants in the book and many others, including where they like to live and how they like to be treated. Growing plants and making things for the garden is endless fun. This book is bursting with planting and gardening ideas to suit children from the ages of 5 to 12. It offers an introduction that arms the reader with all they need to know about plants, soil and tools. Then, over 60 step-by-step projects have ideas for doing things indoors, growing fruit, vegetables and flowers, making crafty bits and pieces for the garden and encouraging wildlife to visit. Whatever the weather, here are masses of ways to keep you occupied in and out of the garden, with fun activities for all children, from tiddlers to safari explorers.

So begins this lyrical tribute to the bugs, bees, and birds that make the garden such a busy place. With each turned page, more visitors appear, and all the while the "surprise"-a chrysalis-changes unnoticed until, on the last page, a butterfly emerges and flies away across the garden's well-tended borders. Back-of-book notes about the natural histories of the garden's denizens complete this lovely and lively portrait of backyard nature, which is also a gentle meditation on the rewards of paying attention. A chipmunk hides on every page to divert and engage young readers. Fountas & Pinnell Level O

Craft meets STEAM in these lively books that will help you design, build and create! Get ready to build your very own biosphere or mini-garden! From fountains to greenhouses grounds and grass art, the step-by-step projects will give you all the instructions you need to make every element a model biosphere needs. Every project has been designed to work using things you can find lying around at home, like disposable containers and packaging, and basic art and craft equipment. Why not check out the other books in the Maker Models series? Each book focuses on a place and will go through creating various parts of the structure. You could learn to make a space centre, a fairground, a transport hub, a mini-garden and biosphere or a theatre and film set and all the elements that constitute them. For children aged 9+, this illustrated series will be great for rainy days and science days and a good inspiration for DT classes and clubs.

A humorous search-and-find book - enjoy the magic changing pictures on every page as you search for Little Dog om the allotment and in the garden centre! Can You See Little Dog? is perfect for sharing with young children. With rhyming text and lots to spot, have fun exploring the busy scenes together - and pull the tabs to see them magically transform! Featuring bright and humorous illustrations by Emilie Lapeyre, Can You See Little Dog? has plenty for children to talk about, encouraging early reading and story-telling skills and introducing early learning concepts. Enjoy more search-and-find fun in Can You See Little Elephant?

This adorable first gardening book taken young ones through sowing and growing delicious fruit, vegetables and edible flowers on their very own Flowerpot Farm. Simple step-by-step instructions are presented in a delightful picture-book style. There are a mix of projects on offer, suitable for gardening spaces of any size, from large gardens to small window ledges. To achieve the best harvest, the young farmer is shown how plants are pollinated, and how to encourage good garden guests, and discourage garden pests. There are cute craft ideas for customising your flowerpot farm, such as decorating pots and making a bird feeder, and tasty recipes for making the most out of your homegrown harvest are included.

This title is part of a brand new series, edited by Jennie Lindon, which takes a fresh approach to planning by ensuring that childrens interests are at the heart of all plans. Planning for the Early Years: Gardening and Growing is packed with adaptable ideas that can be extended for older children, or more focussed for the under threes. It focuses on the prime areas of learning, especially the development of early language, defined in the 2011 Tickell review of the EYFS as the foundations for all learning. This title will allow you to: plan for childrens individual stages of development through the use of adaptable and inclusive plans, and plans specifically for the 0-3s, engage and motivate children to learn by planning around their interests and include children with English as an Additional Language and Special Educational Needs through plans that take into consideration a variety of abilities.

Can you hear the call of the wild? It may be closer than you think! This handbook is ideal to discover how to track animals, make an insect hotel, construct a den, navigate using the stars, search for fossils, and more! Packed with wild activities, useful tips, cool facts and space to document your own notes, readers can never get bored.