Growing in the Garden Upcoming ICN Series

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Connecting Learning & Living curriculum provides garden-based, nutritional, environmental and agricultural education to youth of all ages, through hands-on lessons and activities that connect learning in classrooms and after-school programs with living on planet Earth.  

Growing in the Garden, includes over forty classroom and after-school program lessons and more than one hundred hands-on activities intended to engage youth in ways to improve their health, their ability to learn, and to share what they learn with their families and communities.

Iowa State University Extension and Iowa Department of Education's Team Nutrition Program are partnering to showcase the Growing in the Garden curriculum through a series of ICNs that will be offered at no charge.

ICN  for PK-3 Teachers
•    Students Go, Grow, and Glow through Growing in the Garden - Monday, December 5th – 3:45-4:50pm
o    The first 90 teachers to register will receive a FREE Growing in the Garden curriculum, a value of $60.

ICNs for 1st and 2nd Grade Classrooms
•    How Important is Food to You? - February 21st, 2012 – 10:00-10:50am
•    Where Does Your Food Come From - March 27th, 2012 – 10:00-10:50am
•    Let's Get Growing! - April 3rd, 2012 – 10:00-10:50am

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