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Evolving Beauty

Evolving Beauty

Blending Science with the Arts to Foster Children's Understanding and Love of the Natural World

  • Welcome
  • About
  • A List of Projects in General
    • Seasons Clock
    • “Circle of the Seasons’” Melodies and Lyrics Draft
    • Soil Citizens
    • Spotted Salamander’s Life Cycle
    • Pond Pockets: Sunfish, Painted Turtle, Damselfly, and More!
    • Little Worlds: The Living Soil
    • Frogs and a Toad: A Few Amphibians of Note
    • Composting – What and Why?
    • A Plant Starting Chart (for Student Observations of Sprouting Seeds / Plants)
    • Daffodil ~ Basic Parts
    • A Strawberry Activity Page
    • Why Buy Organically-Grown, Local Products?
    • Strawberry Plants go to School
    • Propagating Plants Vegetatively
    • Drawing to Learn about Blossoms and Pollinators
    • Coevolution: Blossoms and Pollinators
    • Our School ‘Orchard’
    • Apple Stories
    • Bumblebee & Blueberry Plant – A Coloring Page about Mutualism
    • Apple Season
    • The Pear Tree
    • Herbal Teas
    • Fall Perennials: Asters, Goldenrod, Queen Anne’s Lace, and Milkweed
    • A Diagram about Forest Succession in the Northeastern United States
    • Seed Dispersal: Traveling Seeds, pt. 1
    • Seed Dispersal: Traveling Seeds, pt. 2
    • A Few of the Insects Living on Milkweeds
    • A Monarch Larva near the Milkweeds: A Sample Adventure
    • Complex Interactions in the Milkweed Patch
    • Insect Songsters
    • A Grasshopper Pet to Assemble
    • Plant and Animal Partnerships
    • A Beaver Family Diorama
    • Deer in the Forest
    • Squirrel and Hickory Armbands
    • Squirrels and Hickories
    • Winter Adaptations
    • A Few Common Mice
    • Owls of the NE Forestlands: Barred Owl, Great Horned Owl, and Northern Saw-whet Owl
    • Woodchuck’s Guests
    • Woodchuck Name Tag
    • Maple Sugaring
    • A Few Common Birds and Their Nests
    • A Baltimore Oriole Family and their Nest
    • Hummingbirds to Fly
  • Northeastern Woodlands Native American Cultural Studies
    • A Map of Native American Territories in the Northeastern Forestlands at the time of Contact
    • Native American Family
    • A Diorama about Native American Life in 1500 in the NE Woodlands – a Few Figures
    • Partnerships: Native Americans and Plants of N.E. Fields and Forests
    • Native American Plant Use Chart
    • Native American Harvest
    • A Paper Replica of a Native American Birchbark Container
    • Native American and European Exchanges
    • Native American Words in the English Language
    • NH Farm to School’s NH Indigenous Harvest Calendar and Activities, September 2020
  • Traditional Games Workshop Materials
    • Natural Start Alliance and NH Farm to School Conferences: Traditional Games Workshop – A Draft of the Activities Collection, “Circling the Sun, Racing the Wind”
    • Natural Start Alliance Conference: Traditional Games Workshop – “Berry in its Beak” Seed Dispersal Game
    • Natural Start Alliance Conference: Traditional Games Workshop – Song Lyrics and Melodies Draft – “Blue Jay through the Forest” and “The Roving Bumblebee”
    • Natural Start Alliance Conference: Traditional Games Workshop – Song Lyrics and Melodies: “There’s a Mosquito in these Woods” and “When the Beavers Build a Dam”
  • 2019 Patterns & STEAM Workshop for NHAEA – Supplementary Materials
    • Patterns and STEAM Learning: a Workshop for the October 18, 2019 NHAEA Conference (Part 1 of 4)
    • Patterns and STEAM Learning for the October 18 NHAEA Conference – Examples Inspired by Andy Goldsworthy’s work (Part 2 of 4)
    • Patterns and STEAM Workshop for the October 18, 2019 NHAE Conference (Part 3 of 4)
    • Pattern Design and STEAM Workshop for the October 18, 2019 NHAE Conference (part 4 of 4)
  • A Systems Activity, published in Green Teacher, Winter 2018
  • Organic Gardening Resources for Teachers,. Older Students or Interested People in General
    • Gardening For Resilience
    • Why Buy Local, Organic? A Systemic View
    • Laudato Si’ and Environmental Education and Actions
  • Contact

Gardening

Here is a two-part article, graciously published by the Justice and Environment Mission Group of Sisters of Holy Cross in their North American newsletter, ‘Earth Beats.’  It describes the rationale for our small school’s gardening endeavors.

 

EARTH BEATS Je 2015 FINAL 1 Corrected

 

EARTH BEATS Je 2015 FINAL 2

 

 

 

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