Introduction
There must be more than a few reasons for school and classroom gardens to grow in popularity worldwide in the last few years. Gardening has proven to be an excellent comprehensive hands-on learning tool especially for the teaching of integrated topics in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) for primary and secondary schools. Furthermore, edible garden-based learning activities (both indoor and outdoor) in seeding, growing, harvesting, and cooking self-grown vegetables promote motivation, creativity, environmental awareness, healthy food habits, and the development of character and values such as teamwork, resilience, and responsibility.
- The teachers will learn what are the STEM topics and areas that can be designed to be taught at upper primary and lower secondary schools using the activities in a real indoor or outdoor edible garden
- The teachers will learn how to teach the STEM topics using the inquiry-based learning technique with hands-on experiments in an edible garden
- The teachers will learn how to promote socio-emotional and psycho-motor skills, values and character in their students while the students are actively engaged in learning in the garden
- The teachers will learn how to conduct formative assessment for the learning of students in an edible garden-based STEM education system.
Upper Primary and Secondary Science educators
