'How does your garden grow?' Teaching preschool children about the environment

Early Child Development and Care

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-48

  Witt, Susan D ^a   Kimple, Katherine P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Children and environment; Children and nature; Environmental learning activities

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349102845     PISSN: 03004430     EISSN: 14768275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03004430600601156     Document Type: Article

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