Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation

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Asphalt to Ecosystems is a compelling color guidebook for designing and building natural schoolyard environments that fortify childhood learning and play experiences even as providing connection with the natural world. Intended for parents, teachers, school administrators, designers, environmentalists, and community volunteers, this book is an implausible resource that will inspire readers to turn into their own school grounds.

With this book, Danks broadens our notion of what a well-designed schoolyard will have to be, taking readers on a journey from traditional, peculiar grassy fields and asphalt, to explore the vibrant and growing movement to “green” school grounds in the United States and around the world. This book documents exciting green schoolyard examples from almost 150 schools in 11 countries, illustrating that a great many things are conceivable on school grounds when they are envisioned as outdoor classrooms for hands-on learning and play. The book’s 500 vivid, color photographs showcase one of the crucial world’s most innovative green schoolyards including: edible gardens with fruit trees, vegetables, chickens, honey bees, and outdoor cooking facilities; wildlife habitats with prairie grasses and ponds, or forest and desert ecosystems; schoolyard watershed models, rainwater catchment systems and waste-water remedy wetlands; renewable energy systems that power landscape features, or the whole school; waste-as-a-resource projects that give new life to old materials in beautiful ways; K-12 curriculum connections for quite a lot of disciplines from science and math to art and social studies; creative play opportunities that diversify school ground recreational options and encourage children to run, hop, skip, jump, balance, slide, and twirl, as well as explore the natural world first hand.

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