Entries by Ellen Bashor

Growing Big Ideas in the Garden

September 24, 2018 /2 Comments/in /by

A School Garden Story By Ashley Fine  Over the past decade, our staff, students, and families at Skyview School (Prescott, Arizona) have been continually expanding our school’s learning gardens. Currently, Skyview has several edible gardens throughout campus, a large native plant and pollinator garden, and an extensive rainwater harvesting system. The gardens around campus are […]

Is that even STEM?! Early EE & Nature Play

September 24, 2018 /0 Comments/in /by

Before the buckets of sticks, branch cross-cuts, rocks, shells, moss, and more were even unpacked the children tiptoed in. As if drawn by an unseen magnetic force, tiny hands reached for the sticks, “tree cookies”, and shells, and we heard the excited question again and again and again, “Are these real?!” Earlier in the month […]

School Gardens? AAEE Digs Deeper

July 3, 2018 /2 Comments/in /by

“Join the United States School Garden Army; Enlist Now!”  reads the World War I poster of a young girl pushing a plow and looking determined in her red, white, and blue attire. Although the school garden army didn’t last, the battle to get a garden in every school continues. Posters like this were spread across […]

AAEE Celebrates Earth Day!

May 10, 2018 /0 Comments/in /by

The year is 1970. Over 500,000 copies of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring have been sold in over 24 countries, civic engagement is on the rise, and awareness of the connection between environmental and human health has entered dinner table conversations in homes across America. Gaylord Nelson, a senator from Wisconsin, announces a plan for […]