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2010 Autumn | Agriculture and Food Systems, Education & Outreach

Getting Dirty: Educating Children in the Garden

Student(s):

Kelsey Racicot

Program or Department(s):

  • Program on the Environment
  • University of Washington

Site supervisor(s):

Jessica Heiman

Partner(s):

  • Seattle Tilth

Faculty advisor(s):

Tapoja Chaudhuir, International Studies, University of Washington

I worked closely with the Children’s Garden at Seattle Tilth. Here I learned how to teach young
students (2-14 years old) about the benefits and joys of organic gardening. I went through a personal experiential learning process on beekeeping and then used this knowledge to create a puppet show and lesson plans to teach students about the important role honeybees’ play as pollinators in our food system. To supplement my experience I did research of scholarly literature pertaining to experiential gardening education. My objective was to understand how gardening education has the potential to improve student health and increase environmental awareness.