Multicultural Children's Literature in the Garden

Learn to use multicultural children’s literature to enhance your garden-based instruction and teach concepts in social studies, science, and nutrition during this participatory workshop. Discover great multicultural children’s literature and practice developing engaging learning activities that meet the goals of your program or school. Poughkeepsie Farm Project educators will share tips, a book list, and best practices for using literature to center your instruction, and participants will be able to begin using these tools during workshop activities.

In this workshop, participants will learn...

• the benefits of garden-based learning
• how to use high quality multicultural children's literature to enhance garden-based instruction
• about several great children's books and gain an annotated booklist

American Farmland Trust, NY State Office
112 Spring St., Suite 207
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
(518) 581-0078

newyork@farmland.org / (518) 581-0078