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No matter if you’re a teacher, parent, business owner or neighbor, we have long, beautiful rows of resources to help you design, install and sustain a well-used school garden. We also invite you to plant an idea by sharing your favorite resource.

	Fundraising to Sustain Your Garden Fundraising Programs Botanical Interests Seed Savers Exchange Grants DonorsChoose.org My Grant Wrangler Lowes Toolbox for Education The National Garden Association’s Kids Gardening Grants Wild Ones REAL School Gardens has researched additional grant opportunities. Click here to learn more.
	REAL School Gardens Resources Professional Development Sessions Digging for TEKS Gardening ABCs and 123s Getting Ready to Grow Grant Writing Using the Outdoors as a Dynamic Laboratory for Integrated Earth Science Study Joy of Gardening Let's Rock and Roll The Little Things Compost Compilations Compost Compilations (PPT) Eww, Aah, Ick Eww, Aah, Ick (PPT) Labyrinths in the Garden Nature in Art = Art in Nature Nature in Art = Art in Nature (PPT) Nurture Nature to Nourish Rap It Up and Take It Schoolyard Ecology The Art and Science of School Gardening Thumbs On Science Water Exploration Stations Water Stories
	Designing, Installing and Maintaining Your School Garden Comprehensive School Garden Resources California School Garden Network CitySprouts DC Schoolyard Greening Evergreen Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Grow To Learn (New York City's School Garden Initiative) Life Lab LSU Ag Center Research & Extension - School Gardening: Best Practices The National Garden Association’s Kids Gardening Planting Calendar for Organic Edible Gardening from Coppell Community Garden (Coppell, Texas) Recommended North Central Texas Spring and Fall Vegetable Planting Dates San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance School Garden Weekly School Garden Wizard Texas A&M’s ABCs of School Gardens U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Schoolyard Habitat Guide Plant Databases Botanical Research Institute of Texas Botanical Society of America Garden Forever Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation eNature.com Tool for Schools Plant List (North Texas) - Excel spreadsheet United States Department of Agriculture
	Using Your Garden for Teaching and Learning Curriculum Ideas Agriculture in the Classroom, USDA Butterflies and Moths of North America Celebrate Urban Birds, Cornell University A Child's Garden of Standards The Classroom Victory Garden Project EcoKids The Edible School Yard Environmental Defense Fund's Teacher's Guide Free IAE Books by David Moursund Garden Activities for Kids, U. of Nebraska-Lincoln Garden Based Learning, Cornell University Garden Mosaics Healthy Zone (from The Cooper Clinic and United Way Metropolitan Dallas) Journey North Junior Master Gardeners Kids Cook Farm-Fresh Food Leafy Greens Monarch Watch, U. of Kansas National Environmental Education Week, mid-April National Lab Day National Science Teachers Association National Wildlife Federation Schoolyard Habitats Natural Resource Conservation Service: Soil Education PollinatorLIVE Project FeederWatch Project Learning Tree Slow Food in Schools United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization Urban Nutrition Initiative, U. of Pennsylvania Using Live Insects in Elementary Classrooms, U. of Arizona Keeping a Nature Journal (Claire Walker Leslie resources featured at February 10, 2009 REAL People Networking Event) Clare Walker Leslie Brochure Sample Journal Page Set-Up What's Happening in Nature in Winter Winter is a Wonderful Time to Study Nature National and State Organizations Acorn Naturalists American Horticultural Society Boy Scouts of America Children, Nature and You Children & Nature Network Cornell Lab of Ornithology Earth Day Network Girl Scouts of America Green Ribbon Schools, Texas The Jane Goodall Institute Keep America Beautiful National Audubon Society National Parks and Conservation Association National Weather Service National Wildlife Federation North American Association for Environmental Educators Place-Based Education Evaluation Collaborative (PEEC) Promise of Place The Sierra Club Take a Child Outside Teton Science Schools Sharing Nature Worldwide The Trust for Public Land U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Urban Ecology Institute Valley Quest World Meteorological Organization


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Child-Friendly Websites

FIELD TRIP IDEAS

Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT)
Joe Field Waterwise Demonstration Garden (Dallas County Master Gardeners)

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