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Agriculture
Gardening 'makes children happy and teaches new skills'
Taking part in gardening can make a child feel happy and boost their development, research suggests.
The study of 1,300 teachers and 10 schools was commissioned by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS).
It found children in schools that encouraged gardening became more resilient, confident and lived healthier lives.
The RHS says school gardening should be used as a key teaching tool, rather than as an extra-curricular activity.
Researchers at the National Foundation for Educational Research carried out the study and found teachers who used gardening as part of learning said it helped improve children's readiness to learn.
They also said it encouraged pupils to become more active in solving problems, as well as boosting literacy and numeracy skills.
The report said: "Fundamental to the success of school gardens in stimulating a love of learning was their ability to translate sometimes dry academic subjects into practical, real world experiences.
Dr Simon Thornton Wood Royal Horticultural SocietySchools which integrate gardens into the curriculum are developing children who are much more responsive to the challenges of adult life?
"Children were encouraged to get their hands dirty, in every sense. Teachers involved in the research said the result was a more active, inquisitive approach to learning.
"The changeable nature of gardening projects - where anything from the weather to plant disease can affect the outcome - forced children to become more flexible and better able to think on their feet and solve problems."Researchers also said that exposing small children to insects helped them to overcome their fears, while waiting for crops to grow taught children patience.
And gardening also helped teach about healthy living and healthy eating, with children more willing to try new vegetables if they had grown their own crops, they said.
Dr Simon Thornton Wood, director of science and learning at the RHS, said: "As the new coalition government considers a new approach to the primary curriculum, we hope they acknowledge the striking conclusions of our research and that gardens enable a creative, flexible approach to teaching that has significant benefits.
"Schools which integrate gardens into the curriculum are developing children who are much more responsive to the challenges of adult life."
Source of Article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
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Annual flowers live only one growing season, during which they grow, flower, and produce seed, thereby completing their life cycle. Annuals must be set out or seeded every year since they don't persist. Gardening tip of the day is joint effort of...
- Getting Down And Dirty
By Mahnoor Sherazee When was the last time you got down and dirty, snuggled with nature and soothed your mind with a hoe, some seeds and fertile soil? If you haven?t yet perhaps now is a now good time to get close to nature, literally. Organic farming...
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- A Story Of A Ag Student!
I was in the FFA in the 80's when Ag classes and FFA was about agriculture and not credits, we had 30 kids in FFA in a high school with 2000 students. The town we lived in had about 100,000 pepole in it. (3 High schools) We had 2 AG teachers/FFA advisers,...
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