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Outdoor Classrooms is ideal for teachers and home educators who want to incorporate outdoor education at all levels of the school curriculum, with an emphasis on setting up vegetable gardens, teachng children about growing food, economic concerns, human and planetary health and future sustainability. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Outdoor Classrooms is presented as two streams of thought. Carolyn takes through the history of school gardens and articulates the need for a revival before leading our journey into the fanciful; a schoolyard to fire and child's imagination and delight in the natural world. Janet then offers a comprehensive and practical plan for developing a school garden.

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Outdoor Classrooms is ideal for teachers and home educators who want to incorporate outdoor education at all levels of the school curriculum, with an emphasis on setting up vegetable gardens, teachng children about growing food, economic concerns, human and planetary health and future sustainability. Vicky Gould, Permaculture magazine

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Carolyn Nuttal and Jane Miillington are experienced primary school teachers and permaculturists in Queensland, Australia. This is the culmination of many years teaching in and out of the classroom, of practical gardening experience and learning how best to integrate a garden into a school community and creatively weave the outdoor classroom through all levels of curriculum.

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