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Database research record2012·United States (Tucson)

Designing Nature for Learning: School Gardens for Youth and Child Education

Sarah A. Moore, Morgan Apicella, Sallie A. Marston, Moses Thompson

Children Youth and Environments

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An ongoing project in Tucson, Arizona, provides university interns to K-12 schools to build and maintain school gardens and facilitate learning about the environment and sustainability. Based on experiences at Manzo Elementary, a project school in a low-income, mixed-race neighborhood, the program evaluates the effectiveness of school gardens as a tool for experiential learning and describes obstacles encountered and overcome.