Engaging & Teaching Youth

Previous gardening experience and gardening enjoyment is related to vegetable preferences and consumption among low-income elementary school children (Winter 2020)

• Evans, A., Ranjit, N., Fair, C. N., Jennings, R., & Warren, J. L. (2016). Previous gardening experience and gardening enjoyment is related to vegetable preferences and consumption among low-income elementary school children. Journal of nutrition education and behavior, 48(9), 618-624.

  • https://www.jneb.org/article/S1499-4046(16)30654-6/abstract

Gardening increases vegetable consumption in school-aged children: A meta-analytical synthesis

• Langellotto, G. A., & Gupta, A. (2012). Gardening increases vegetable consumption in school-aged children: A meta-analytical synthesis. HortTechnology, 22(4), 430-445.

  • https://journals.ashs.org/horttech/view/journals/horttech/22/4/article-p430.xml

Natural Learning Initiative Gardening Activity Guide. (2021)

• N. Cosco, B. Sledge, R. Moore, L. Bradley, NC State University

• https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/natural-learning-initiative-gardening-activity-guide

  • The Gardening Activity Guide is designed to expose young children to seasonal fruit and vegetable gardening in childcare centers. Based on the Preventing Obesity by Design (POD) model, the guide provides a resource for teachers to encourage children’s physical activity and outdoor learning through gardening.

Learn, Garden, and Reflect with Cornell Garden-Based Learning (2020)

• A site to provide educators with inspiring, research-based gardening resources and professional development to support engaging, empowering, and relevant learning experiences for children, youth, adults, and communities.

  • http://gardening.cals.cornell.edu

MG Sprouts (2019)

• S. Dorn & K. Slagle, University of Georgia

• https://extension.uga.edu/programs-services/georgia-master-gardener-extension-volunteer-program/volunteer/mg-sprouts.html

  • MG SPROUTS was developed to meet Master Gardener Extension Volunteers requests for youth horticulture materials. It’s a project-in-a-box approach that requires no garden space, and can be delivered regardless of weather or season. It uses a read-aloud session to engage young participants in stories, introducing concepts about growing things and the natural world. Lively discussion about the story is followed by hands-on activities and games. The My SPROUTS Journal and Grow-On! take-home sheets help engage the participant’s family in his or her discovery of the growing world.

SOIL SOLUTIONS (2018)

• North Carolina State University Extension.

• About this curriculum: https://growforit.ces.ncsu.edu/curriculum/soil-solutions

• The actual document can be accessed here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zcteFKeo0nyEXNPoOxV3kKhoiKTJfpRm/view

  • Soil Solutions is a 4-H/youth curriculum that can be used by many audiences interacting with a young audience, such as EMGs.