Date

Spring 2016

Document Type

Capstone Project

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Department

Liberal Studies

First Advisor

Browning Neddeau

Second Advisor

Deanne Perez-Granados

Abstract

Traditional public schools are not always giving students access to opportunities to experience innovative approaches to learning like garden-based education. Garden-based education uses the garden in everyday curriculum as well as giving students the opportunity to experience hands-on learning. An outdoor garden can be a tool in promoting outdoor education and positive peer relationships. Through interviews with teachers from the garden program and surveys with students who participate in this program, this Capstone examines the benefits of taking the curriculum outdoors and implementing garden-based education. Students and teachers showed high remarks when taking the curriculum outside in the garden. Having the access to a garden-based education can provide challenges, but the paper recommends schools implementing their own garden-based classroom in order to do so as well as provides resources, such as lesson plans, helping teachers educate their students with the use of the garden.

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