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Gardening for Kids: Learn, Grow, and Get Messy with Fun Steam Projects
- Subject
- Gardening
- Age
- 6-8 years
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Pages
- 152
- Publisher
- Rockridge Press
- Size
- 19.1 cm × 23.5 cm
- ISBN
- 9781647390143
Sharpen STEAM skills—and have a blast—with educational gardening projects for kids 8 to 12
Discover how fun and educational growing plants can be. Gardening for Kids is packed with essential information for beginner gardeners and tons of awesome projects that help kids grow their science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) skills.
Go outside with easy-to-try experiments that will teach you all about the environment, plants, and what it takes to grow and maintain your very own garden. Find out what your soil is made of, make a miniature greenhouse, race seeds, and so much more!
Gardening for Kids provides:
Gardening 101—Learn everything you need to get your garden started today, from basic safety tips to helpful advice on caring for your plants.25 Gardening projects—Dig into the natural world with a ton of fun experiments like sprouting food scraps, building plant forts, and more—each one focusing on specific STEAM skills.A chance to grow together—This book features handy tips for expanding projects to work with groups of kids so you can share the fun in classrooms and community gardens.Grow a love of science, technology, engineering, art, and math—plus lots of plants—with Gardening for Kids.
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What reviewers said
“This book is created with so many audiences in mind. What an amazing resource for educators, parents and students alike. I love that there were thoughtful STEAM connections for each project. This could easily find a home on classroom shelves, in addition to being a wonderful resource to a home library. Excited to complete some garden projects with my own kiddos at home!”
“Gardening for Kids is approachable, colorfully illustrated, and offers engaging STEAM activities. As an educator, I appreciate how Brandy Stone designed this book to be used by children and their grown-ups, as well as teachers. Gardening for Kids book does an important job, especially when so many of us are stuck at home during the pandemic—it inspires the reader to ask questions and explore the nature right outside their door!”
“Brandy Stone's Gardening For Kids is the perfect book to get kids asking questions about the world around them while building hands-on experiments in the garden! As a STEAM educator, this book is perfect for students who want to know more about how science concepts can be seen in our own backyard. With STEAM concepts embedded into every page and engaging experiments at every level to a rich understanding of gardening, this book is a must-have for your future scientists and artists who love the outdoors and don't mind getting a little messy!”
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