Author: Alice Waters
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Keywords: idea, universal, schoolyard, edible
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2008-12-17
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0811862801
ISBN-13: 9780811862806

One of America’s most influential chefs, Alice Waters created a revolution in 1971 when she introduced local, organic fare at her Berkeley, California, restaurant, Chez Panisse. Twenty-five years later, she and a small group of teachers and volunteers turned over long-abandoned soil at an urban middle school in Berkeley and planted the Edible Schoolyard. The schoolyard has since grown into a universal idea of Edible Education that integrates academics with growing, cooking, and sharing wholesome, delicious food. With inspiring images of the garden and kitchen and their young caretakers E

Author: Herbert W. Broda
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Keywords: instructional, tool, outdoors, using, enhanced, learning, schoolyard
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-11-02
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 1571107290
ISBN-13: 9781571107299

Schoolyard-Enhanced Learning shows how the school grounds—regardless of whether your school is in an urban, suburban, or rural setting—can become an enriching extension of the classroom. In this comprehensive handbook, Herb Broda blends theory and practice, providing readers with practical suggestions and teacher-tested activities for using the most powerful audio-visual tool available—the outdoors. Emphasizing the practical, this innovative book offers teachers step-by-step guidance to help ensure success when they take a class outside. It provides:Background that helps present the cas

Authors:Bobbie Kalman, Heather Levigne,
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Keywords: communities, historic, games, schoolyard
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2000-10
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0865054711
ISBN-13: 9780865054714

Settler children played Schoolyard Games that are similar to those still played by children today. Colorful illustrations help explain early versions of such games as tag, skipping and string games, hopscotch, hiding games, marbles, tops, and group games such as Sticky Apple.

Authors:Sameer Hinduja, Justin W. Patchi,
Publisher: Corwin Pre
Keywords: cyberbullying, responding, preventing, schoolyard, bullying
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 1412966892
ISBN-13: 9781412966894

Focusing on how technology can facilitate or magnify bullying behavior, this resource provides proactive strategies, current research, and legal rulings to protect students from cyberbullying.

Author: Sharon Gamson Danks
Publisher: New Village Press
Keywords: schoolyard, transformation, ideas, design, ecosystems, asphalt
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-11-02
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0976605481
ISBN-13: 9780976605485

Asphalt to Ecosystems is a compelling color guidebook for designing and building natural schoolyard environments that enhance childhood learning and play experiences while providing connection with the natural world. Intended for parents, teachers, school administrators, designers, environmentalists, and community volunteers, this book is a fantastic resource that will inspire readers to transform their own school grounds.With this book, Danks broadens our notion of what a well-designed schoolyard should be, taking readers on a journey from traditional, ordinary grassy fields and asphalt, to e

Author: Amanda E Lewis
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: rutgers, series, childhood, studies, communities, classrooms, schoolyard, negotiating, color, line, race
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2003-03-18
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0813532256
ISBN-13: 9780813532257

Could your kids be learning a fourth R at school: reading, writing, ’rithmatic, and race? Race in the Schoolyard takes us to a place most of us seldom get to see in action¾our children’s classrooms¾ and reveals the lessons about race that are communicated there. Amanda E. Lewis spent a year observing classes at three elementary schools, two multiracial urban and one white suburban. While race of course is not officially taught like multiplication and punctuation, she finds that it nonetheless insinuates itself into everyday life in schools. Lewis explains how the curriculum, both

Author: Sam Schultz
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Keywords: grade, laugh, jokes, classy, snickers, schoolyard
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2003-10
List price: $19.93
ISBN-10: 1575056437
ISBN-13: 9781575056432

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Jokes about school.