Garden Explorers book
This brand new practical book is for heritage, garden and parks professionals and educators who want to develop and deliver family learning. The author, Kate Measures has nearly a decade of experience in the heritage industry, working for a wide range of organisations.
Garden Explorers covers; identifying the possibilities of gardens or parks, finding out more about audience needs, clear and simple planning, writing for families and choosing activity ideas.
Each chapter has practical activities and tools to help readers plan learning experiences. The book has handy hints and checklists (for those of us who like ticking things off!), nearly 40 activity ideas and a directory of over 100 suppliers, professional organisations and websites for quality free activity resources.
This environmentally sensitive book is 90 pages long, ring bound in a reusable binder and is printed on paper manufactured from 75% post consumer waste and 25% elephant dung.
‘The delightful Garden Explorers pack combines the basics of interpretative theory, family learning practice and project management with practical exercises to encourage deeper thinking about your garden and visitors to provide a clear step-by-step approach to developing family learning activities within a garden or park setting. As such it really does take the educator from having a blank piece of paper through to delivering a fully-fledged family learning service. A host of activity ideas also help to get the creative juices flowing while ‘explore further’ activities encourage the reader to think on – always a valuable lesson when planning new programmes. Finally a contacts list enables readers to follow up ideas and see what others are doing.’
Ben Oliver, BGEN Summer 2008
To order contact katemeasures@hotmail.co.uk
