Submit Assignment 4.2: Building Your GBL Toolbox (Final Portfolio)
This week you continue to build to your GBL toolbox (Final Portfolio). Think about some of the short and long-term outcomes from your logic model, and select three to five different activities or lesson plans that will lead to these outcomes. For this assignment, draft a list of these lessons, activities and materials that you plan on using, and the desired short and long-term outcomes you hope participants will achieve, as a result of these GBL activities.
Fortunately there is already a huge amount of garden-based activities and curricula to choose from, so you don't need to spend time coming up with GBL activities for your students and garden participants. Some curricula for youth are already linked to learning standards so they are easily integrated into lesson plans.The GBL Resources Section in this course and Cornell's Garden-Based Learning website is a good place to start - these pages have lots of downloadable lessons and links to many excellent resources: https://gardening.cals.cornell.edu/lessons/
There are many other teaching tools online. Here are a few to get you started, and I encourage you to search for others that are regionally and culturally appropriate for your garden. Don't forget all the resources that have been added to the "Resources for School and Community Gardens" section at the bottom of the course homepage!
Youth
https://rodaleinstitute.org/education/school-gardening-curriculum/
https://jmgkids.us/curriculum/
Adults
https://gardening.cals.cornell.edu/adult-programs/new-york-state-seed-to-supper/
https://snaped.fns.usda.gov/resources/nutrition-education-materials/gardening
NOTE: In the next assignment, 4.3 you will create a more detailed plan of these activities and lessons, so this assignment 4.2 is more of a brainstorming activity to lay the ground work for 4.3.