Implementation Activity - Training Session on the Creation and Care for School Gardens
This activity aimed at training the participants in the use of the GreeNET ‘school garden’ best practice as a means to support a number of school modules. The first part regarded the practical issues of creating a school garden: the participants learned how to prepare the soil for their vegetables, to choose the most suitable plants and vegetables for each season, and to care for their cultivation and other tips. Also, the participants discussed the applicability of this programme in different educational levels and the connection with different modules, such as history, math, science, biology and project-related modules. In the second part, the participants were guided to retrieve information, tested teaching ideas and ready-to-use educational scenarios on the school gardens from the specially-made digital repository. They also engaged in a discussion on the theoretical aspects of the procedure and their own experiences from the school garden project and focused on the connection between school gardens and young entrepreneurship.