Billy wrote:
In article ,
Scott Hildenbrand wrote:

Billy wrote:
In article ,
len garden wrote:

we reckon that there are not only ideas there for all including
children but pictures and story on how to do it.
I would think that "all" would include children. Looking at your site, I
don't see anything particularly for kids. Perhaps you could direct me to
the children's content.
I'll agree.. Nothing kids directed here either.. Know, I dislike people
who banter their own stuff but more so when it's done in a misdirecting
manner.

Here are some good kids gardening sites for anyone interested in which,
what a novel idea, have information about kids and gardening in them.

http://www.kidsgardening.com/

http://www.cln.org/themes/gardening.html

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/c...mith/kids.html

http://mastergardenproducts.com/kidsgarden/

And lets not forget..

http://www.4husa.org/



All your base are belong to us.

Thanks Scott, I didn't know that I was looking for these sites until you
posted them. They all appear to be good sites for motivating kids to
garden, rather than taking the spectator approach and just watching.

I'm glad my rant post with useful information attached, unlike the
originals, was indeed of some use. I just didn't want people stumbling
onto the thread and being mislead into going to worthless sites so I
chose some of the better resources.

When I finish my harvest gig as a winery lab monkey, I return to
substitute teaching and the chance to affect students and their
teachers. You would be amazed at the scant time dedicated teachers have
for research after their work day plus administration meetings are over.

Not really.. Wife's a teacher, middle school special ed.. She works
quite a bit at home while I'm working on sites(I'm a web monkey).

Fully understand how hard it can be to get in research time..

It might even be tougher now that "No Child Left Behind" is intent on
drill and kill. Boring rote memorization followed by interest killing
tests.

I'll keep my NCLB opinions out of the mix.. Main thing though is states
are still allowed to run their educational program as they see fit with
no real government mandates.

The US is lacking in education.. Personally I like Europe's way of
thinking. They take an aptitude test to see what the child is good at.
Once the area is found the schooling is shifted into that direction, so
if they're good at engineering the schooling is keyed to make them
succeed at that.

US on the other hand.. Well.. Darn if that doesn't stomp on some freedom
somewhere. So the whole education system is equalized to make sure
everyone gets their fair share of education in all subjects, even if
it's worthless to the child and will have no affect in bettering them or
their future.

Oh well.. Just my two cents.

I went to high school in '57, the year Sputnik went up. The government
suddenly knew how to improve education: $pend.

Got out in 94, so I'm on a more modern view of how it is.. They know
what to do, they just can't do it and no state wants to be mandated to
any new government testing guidelines that dictate what states need to do.