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Early is better.......using hands on, interactive approaches.....active learning.

Great question Teeka Bhattarai

I agree with Adita Maharaj hands on training/orientation with kitchen gardening is probably the best to kids at their early childhood. I don't see any negative impact of this approach.

Use an App to create demand.

The best way when life is back to normal is to make them actually do gardening themselves through some participatory activities.

I think it depends on individual features of each child.

But clearly, this issue should be considered in the preschool period and be a part of the educational process of parents

Teeka Bhattarai Most children I know enjoy doing real and important stuff. It can be very enjoyable to see something grow and then eat what you have grown. Although impatience is a factor, children like to do things that are important also in the eyes of the adults. All the additional information about agriculture, preparedness and survival are more a positive bi-effect. The basic modus for children is hanging out, having fun and being taken seriously. The catastrophy that might happen is very difficult to comprehend, but children often suprise with being able to utilize the knowledge when it is needed. I see no downsides and even think most subjects in school at most ages can profitt by having a practical and relevant life perspective. Most children and youth sit still far too much and this is in itself negative for positive learning. Good luck.

Let them plant something they like, see it grow and harvest it!

Проводила б заняття на прирорді. І тим самим знайомила із сільським господарством та садівництвом. Адже вивчення і спостереження різних процесів у реальних умовах, краще засвоюється учнями

Dear Teeka, Take the children outside if you can as much as possible. The garden should be the classroom where children play, grow plants and learn. This garden should have a compost pile where plant residues are piled up and their decomposition by soil organisms will provide nutrients and other benefits (e.g.: water retention, better soil structure and texture), while making children reflect that there is NO waste in nature. Instead everything is recycled and this becomes the knowledge that they will take with them and share with others, for the rest of their lives. Raising earthworms like the red-wigglers (Eisenia foetida) is very easy and vermicomposting will be a fun activity that integrated with the care for the plants will have a profound effect on children's learning.

Con niños de edad prescolar, no tengo mucha experiencia, pero, si recuerdo que, en mi infancia, en edad prescolar en los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, mis maestras me enseñaron el ciclo de una planta. Debimos sembrar la planta en un envase de compotas, pegando las semillas (dos de ellas separadas y equidistantes una de la otra), y colocar papel en el centro, de tal forma que el papel sostuviera las semillas al lado de el vidrio lateral de los pequeños envases.

Todos, las niñas y los niños cuidábamos las semillas “sembradas” y observábamos como germinaban, manteniendo el papel húmedo, hasta que unos días después salió la raíz y luego una primera hoja.

El acompañamiento de la maestra fue fundamental y nos ayudo a reconocer y respetar, más tarde, la naturaleza.

Muchas Gracias. Si conoces algunas referencias críticas que argumentan que necesitamos enseñar jardinería / agricultura a niños de una parte del mundo de habla hispana, te lo agradecería mucho.

Three of my grandchildren ages 3 (twins) and five are at the moment helping their daddy plant and take care of a huge garden filled with things they like to eat. They are so excited! Yes, their attention spans are short, but multiple short exposures are maybe even better than long exposures that promote boredom. Periodic checks throughout the day increase the excitement if you point out little changes that occur with different plants. What fun!

I really like a song by a Cuban singer-songwriter Lidis Lamorú, entitled "Nature", I think it's a good way to bring children closer to agricultural work, motivating them through music, about the importance of this work.

Thank you indeed Zuleiny Meneses Martin for this musical dimension. I listened/watched her singing. Would you mind referring me the lyrics? I need to translate them in English for me to understand.

Take the children to the School Garden and let them see the practical aspects of how crops grow.

Hi Teeka,

Maybe try the following with children as young as 3-4 years old:

1-Teaching by themes:

• The 4 seasons: What grows/dies during the different seasons (or whatever counts as seasons locally). Make autumn leaves collages, growing lentil seeds in spring on wet cotton on plates or in pots , songs/plays and art about the seasons including plants/farming activities, etc.
• Food: a guessing game of where things grow and in what form, fruit, seed/nut, herb, tree, vegetable bush, etc. make collages of pictures or samples of any crops grown in the neighborhood that children know of, get a farmer to come and talk to the children of what they do or even better show them in a field visit.
• Growth: rooting things like beetroot and potato tubers in water pots and seeing leaves and roots develop, the importance of sunlight and water for growing food (showing the difference between a plant growing in the shade and in light), etc.., adding fertilizers like manure to help things grow, visiting a field at different times to record height of plants taken by teacher, etc..Pictures of baby and adult farm animals, etc.

See this for some activities:

https://www.pre-kpages.com/farm-activities-for-preschoolers/

I think the pedagogy should be experiential, partly individual and partly collaborative, inquiry and object based, promoting love and care for nature, and awareness about the sense of place and children's embodied relationships with their environment. See this:

Chapter Early Years Education in the Anthropocene: An Ecophenomenolo...

https://www.proquest.com/openview/a81ce26a07777f1188e13f3349929682/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1586360

hope this helps.

Dima

you can start on the classroom having some plants and taking care of them, after that you can start with simple activities outside the cassromm like watering plants, then you show them diferents tools to use in the garden and how to use them. With the time you give to the kids resnponsabilities with the garden and teach them different kind of plants, select a plant what not requires to much cares and plant with the kids, remeber asignate daily tasks to take care that plants

The appropriate complementary word can be used for the pre-school children is to playing something by any means. At this stage if any one wants to teach them anything, the individual should allow/get them free for playing with those particular things. Children are usually fond of playing water with mud. First of all let them free in a garden and allow them to do whatever they like, such as planting seedlings, uprooting seedlings, watering to plants or making mud etc. By this way they can easily learn unconsciously. I have experiences like this with Japanese children.

Dima Khazem Thank you for your specific advice and references. They were quite helpful.

Thank you Jaroslav Dvorak

I think even at a young age food has to be a focus. Letting pre-school age children use all of their senses to experience learning and develop future understanding is essential. We are surrounded by agriculture even in our day to day lives. We have to teach students to see and recognize those daily connections with products and by-products to bridge understanding.

Teaching children how to grow and harvest their own food, as well as how to interact with animals, could help them improve social skills through teamwork, boost self-esteem and promote healthy lifestyles.

we can do that by using the teaching methodology of the 'DEMONSTRATION METHOD' that way children in Pre School can imitate and grasp quickly.

Gardening is part of functional education, Children should be introduced to it in their formative years.When they grow, it complement their means of livelihood.

Pre-school Children can be introduced to Gardening/Agriculture through practical examples. Take them out to look out the flowers in the School Compound. And you can also demonstrate in the classroom by putting sand in a container and plant a seed or transplant vegetable.