Teaching and Learning in the School Garden: Theory into Practice is a new online course that focuses on the foundations and teaching strategies of garden-based learning (GBL), and provides the tools and resources that classroom teachers and extension educators need to develop school gardening programs that integrate into the school curriculum.
The class runs from June 27, 2011 to August 26, 2011, and will be taught by Donna Alese Cooke, Community Educator with Cornell Cooperative Extension-Rockland County.
Also offered this summer are two online botanical illustration courses starting June 6: Basic Drawing Techniques and Working With Watercolor.
Visit the Horticulture distance learning course website to learn more about these and other courses including organic gardening, plant propagation and garden design. The Cornell Beginning Farmers project also offers several online courses that will resume this fall.