"A Growing Relationsihp" Jon Belber's Curriculum

"A Growing Relationship," a curriculum guide that was written by Holly Hill Farm owner Frank White (who unfortunately passed away last year), Jon Belber (Education Director, Friends of Holly Hill Farm), and Ted Hirsch (South Shore Charter Public School in Norwell, MA) to encourage classroom teachers to integrate their school garden and classroom lessons. "AGR" has 15 farm-based curriculum units with lessons geared towards children in grades k through 5.

Click Here to open a 3 page PDF with more information about "A Growing Relationship" (note, this requires Adobe Acrobat reader).

If you can't open the PDF or have any questions, please call Jon Belber, Friends of Holly Hill Farm Education Director, at (781) 383-6565 or by email at jbelberhollyhill@hotmail.com.

You can read more about Jon Belber, who was the 2009 Farm-Based Educator of the year, in the FBEA Fall 2009 Newsletter ,P.2.

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Permalink Reply by Madeline Dorger on March 8, 2011 at 11:06am

Hi. I'm looking for some curriculum help. I'm working with a school that has a garden, but many of the teachers don't think they have time to think of garden related lessons that are linked to Ohio Standards. We decided to create a binder with lesson plans in it that teachers could just take out and use. My thought is that even if one person wrote all the lessons for such a binder, teachers would still come up with their own lessons anyway that would not be in the binder.

Is there a place to upload your favorite lesson plans to be shared with your school or other schools in your state? Or if people from out of state want to share lessons, I'm sure we could link them up to our standards. Things with diagrams, graphs, charts, etc. are great. Here are some subjects they are looking to cover food chains, soil, photosynthesis, carbon cycles, solids, liquids, and gases, erosion, biomes, pollinators, economics, nutrition, life cycles, observation, measurement, journaling, classification, basic needs of organisms, etc.

Any thoughts or help would be much appreciated.