A document discusses the benefits of garden-based education for students. Garden-based education involves hands-on, constructivist learning through activities like working in a school garden. Studies show this type of learning gets students to eat more fruits and vegetables. It also activates students' critical and creative thinking skills. When one school started a garden-based education project, their attendance rate increased significantly from 40% to 93%. The project provides benefits like peer mentoring, community involvement, developing various skills, and respect for others and the environment.

1. Garden Based Education
Hands-on constructivist learning.

2. Multiple studies have seen student start to eat
more fruits and vegetables after working in a
school garden.

3. Getting students
involved in garden
based education
activates their critical
and creative thinking
skills.

4. The Green Bronx Machine.
You can garden anywhere!

5. After starting this project the attendance rate went from 40% to 93%.

6. Peer mentoring, community involvement, group
work, hands-on learning, respect for others and
the environment, creative and critical thinking
skills, writing, cooking, geography, and art. The
list of benefits goes on.