 Hidden Villa Classroom
The Hidden Villa Classroom offers a teachers three separate curricular resources that meet California Academic Standards while engaging students in hands-on learning. These curricula were designed to support teachers in educating future leaders who will be prepared to meet the environmental and social challenges tomorrow. The online classroom can be visited at www.hiddenvillaclassroom.org and contains resources for before and after your field trip to Hidden Villa, your school garden, and English language learners, which simultaneously builds and reinforces language and science skills.
Our Before and After Your Field Trip curriculum empowers teachers to take their one-day visit to Hidden Villa and fortify it with pre-visit and post-visit activities on a plethora of subjects and life skills. In total, teachers are provided with an entire month of classroom activities to reinforce student learning at Hidden Villa. It is our hope that this resource will dramatically increase concept retention through applied learning that connects student experiences with their classroom lessons.
 Hands in the Soil = Hands-on Science
Hidden Villa is excited to offer Hands in the Soil = Hands-on Science, a "one-stop shop" web resource for school gardeners in Redwood City. The Hands in the Soil = Hands-on Science website features an online scheduler allowing teachers to sign up for a variety services for their school gardens including irrigation expertise, composting, plants and teacher workshops with the goal of maximizing teacher time and available support in a centralized garden-based education resource. The website also provides access to garden-based and English language learner curriculum, funding opportunities as well as linkages to other school gardens in Redwood City. This model will continue to evolve based on teacher feedback and it is our hope that it may be replicated in other districts looking to meet the various needs teachers have that utilize school gardens in a "resource-reasonable" way.
Sprouting from the needs voiced by school gardeners in Redwood City, Hands in the Soil = Hands-on Science was developed thanks to Sequoia Healthcare District and Cisco Systems through the collaboration of Hidden Villa, Redwood City 2020 and the City of Redwood City. The tool was presented to a highly receptive audience of Redwood City school gardeners on January 31st, 2011.
Visit the Hands In The Soil Website or the Hidden Villa Classroom Website to learn more about these unique and exciting resources.
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