Health and Wellness Annotated Bibliography
Meagan Hernandez
Liberty University
Educ 215
Dr. Nancy Willard
November 6, 2023
I intend to explore Food Gardening in Early Childhood as the subject of my Health and Wellness
project.
Annotated Bibliography
Futterman, L. (2013). NAEYC. Grow a Salad! Preschoolers Plan and Prepare Their Food.
This article describes how an urban teacher brought gardening into her classroom. Since
most of her pupils only buy food from the supermarket, the instructor came to the
realization that many of her students were unaware of the true source of their food. The
instructor plants a garden in the space between two structures and utilizes it as a teaching
tool for her pupils. Each child makes a salad for himself after the teacher walks them
through the full process of producing the veggies. According to the text, this kind of
exercise promotes independence and a nutritious diet. I'm going to utilize this article to
discuss the value of gardening and the way this teacher incorporated it into her lesson
plan.
Hoyt, S. (2018). Growing a healthy childhood the value of cultivating young minds through
gardening using design . Liberty University.
The impacts of gardening as a teaching and developmental aid for young children are
discussed in this article. Because this research provides a thorough explanation of the
advantages of gardening for one's physical, mental, and social well-being, I intend to
employ it. The study findings also contribute to the explanation of why parents do not
actively engage in gardening. The thesis contributes to the desire of parents of small
children to start gardening in their homes.
Kearney, P. (2020). Food Gardening in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings.
Educating Young Children: Learning and Teaching in the Early Childhood Years, 16(2), 22.
This post will be useful in my efforts to convey the value of food growing to young
people. It is emphasized in the essay that introducing children to food gardening at a
young age will help them understand where food comes from and how important food is
in life. This page gives some general advice on how to create a garden in a preschool,
including what to grow and where. Advice about maintaining a garden in a pre-school
environment is also included in the text.
Kyoung Jin Kim, Eunyoung Jung, Min-Kyung Han & Ji-Hyang Sohn (2020) The Power of
Garden-Based Curriculum to Promote Scientific and Nature-Friendly Attitudes in Children
Through a Cotton Project, Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 34:4, 538-550.
According to this article, teaching children to cultivate plants is a well-liked and simple
way to encourage their scientific curiosity and foster an optimistic outlook on the
environment. This study looks at the impact of a year-long garden-based curriculum in
South Korea, namely a cotton project, on the scientific and environmentally conscious
attitudes of 4- to 6-year-old children. According to the article, children who had
"meaningful direct and concrete experience with the natural environment opened their
eyes to the significance of nature and the value of harmony with the natural world,
resulting in increased nature-friendly attitudes."
Skelton, K. R., Lowe, C., Zaltz, D. A., & Benjamin-Neelon, S. (2020). Garden-based
interventions and early childhood health: an umbrella review. International Journal of
Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 17, 1-19.
This article describes how to employ treatments based in gardens. The essay describes
how these kinds of interventions are put into practice and how they help kids.
Additionally included in the article is the use of garden-based treatments as a type of
therapy for certain illnesses and conditions, such as children cancer and autism spectrum
disorder. The article highlights gardening's advantages for one's health and social and
emotional well-being.
