"The Growing Classroom provides activities for teaching science, environmental awareness, and nutrition in an outdoor living laboratory as well as in a classroom setting. The combination of direct observation and experimentation in the garden laboratory and focused lessons on specific topics is the core of Life Lab."--Information taken from p. 13. \\Contents: Let's work together: problem solving and communication -- We are all scientists: awareness and discovery -- The living Earth: soil -- Growing -- Living laboratory: outdoor gardening -- Cycles and changes -- Interdependence -- Garden ecology -- Garden creatures -- Weather and climate -- Food choices -- Nutrients -- Food systems and consumerism -- Appendix: Blackline masters ; Gardening "how to" ; Building plans ; Scope and sequence ; English/Spanish vocabulary list.