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Oct 19, 2012

Garden Based Learning Training: Curriculum Connections to School Gardens (Saturday, October 27, 2012, from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM at UCCE Auditorium and Sunshine Garden)
The Master Gardeners of San Luis Obispo County wants to help foster these important life lessons by offering a workshop to assist school teachers, parents and others with connecting their school garden to classroom instruction. The workshop is open to all teachers, school staff, parents, and volunteers who work with the children at a school based garden. Each attendee will receive a curriculum binder with lesson plans that incorporate California’s Instructional Standards. The Garden Based Learning workshop will be held at School Garden plot in the Garden of the Seven Sisters in San Luis Obispo. The Garden of the Seven Sisters has eighteen different themed gardens including one designed specifically to demonstrate a school gardens.

The workshop will be held Saturday, October 27, 2012, at 2156 Sierra Way, San Luis Obispo. The workshop starts at 9 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and includes garden snacks.. To join us in a fun and informative day of garden based learning, please register at http://ucanr.org/gardenbasedlearning For more information, contact Contact: treelees@charter.net

 

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