LGEG Online Curriculum & Teacher Training Course

Learn, Grow, Eat & Go!
Online Curriculum
and Teacher Training

This new, self-directed and engaging training course for teachers, volunteers and Extension serves as a dynamic professional development opportunity AND a new, multimedia curricular option for the Learn, Grow, Eat & Go! curriculum.

The online curriculum & training will follow the popular Learn, Grow Eat & Go! curriculum with a series of easy-to-follow, weekly modules that let you see how to implement the research/evidence-based program over 10 weeks.

Each weekly module includes:

• a brief Sharpening Science component to provide the teacher/leader with some interesting, helpful garden science and food science background information.

• two Classroom Lessons to actually show each of the LGEG lessons being modeled by teacher in a public school classroom.

• access to PDF printable lessons and student worksheets from the hardcopy LGEG curriculum.

See course screen shots below:

All course video content of course lessons is complimented by printable PDF copies of pages adapted from the
Junior Master Gardener Learn, Grow, Eat & Go! curriculum.

See the sample clip from in-classroom lesson and more course screen shots:

Created by teachers, this multifaceted garden, nutrition, and physical activities curriculum is evidence-based and academically rich. Through a linear set of hands-on, proven lessons, your students will better understand plants and how plants provide for people’s needs. The 10-week (2 lessons/week) unit of study will step your class through process of establishing a thriving garden that is easy to create and maintain.

A JMG Professional Development Certificate documenting completion of 4 hours of training would be available at the conclusion of the course.