Allyson Cates and Erin Hottle, both pre-service teachers at UNC Greensboro, were recently featured by the Guilford County Cooperative Extension School Garden Network and the North Carolina Community Garden Partners for their greenhouse and garden project at General Green Elementary. Cates and Hottle are also enrolled in the N.C. Environmental Education Certification Program. Different aspects of the greenhouse and garden project are serving as each of their community partnerships, which is a required critieria for the EE Certification Program.
Their projects involve refurbishing an existing greenhouse at the school, growing and planting seedlings with the students and developing lessons and curricula the teachers can use with students when the project is complete. Project partners include the Guilford County Cooperative Extension School Garden Network and The Giving Seed Sustainable Farm, a nonprofit that connects young people with their environment through hands-on gardening and environmental education programs.
Several other UNCG pre-service teachers are participating in the N.C. EE Certification program as well. Other community projects include school gardens, nature trail restorations and projects that integrate language arts, math, science, art and other subjects with environmental education.
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