Kindergarten

Wilshire Crest Elementary School

Wilshire Crest Elementary garden goal is to support an interdisciplinary experience of education through garden based learning in the outdoor living classroom. The garden provides economically disadvantage kids a chance to excell with hands on learning as an extension of classroom curricuplum in an outdoor classroom setting. Our student body are local students, with over 80% participating in the free and reduced lunch program. The project reinforces good eating habits from seed to table program as well as environmental stewardship.

windermere elementary school

The goal of the garden is to provide our school and community with an outdoor classroom / organic garden as an avenue to endless learning opportunities for children and adults alike. To learn about sustainable living and the importance of preserving the environment. Teaching everyone to take ownership of their health by understanding and promoting healthy eating habits thru the use of the garden crops in cooking classes and allowing them to participate in making their own food and tasting the results of their hard work.

Eisenhower Elementary

Eisenhower Elementary currently has no outdoor learning space. To bring the classroom outside, we plan to create a series of raised beds and a pollinator garden in a 300-square-foot vacant location between the school's main entrance and the playground.

Horseshoe Trails Elementary

The goal for the Horseshoe Trails garden is for all students to have an opportunity to experience gardening. For many of our students, this will be their first gardening experience and we hope to ignite a passion for future gardeners. We'd also like to encourage teachers to utilize the garden as a tool for scientific and multi-disciplinary learning. John Muir said, "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he find it attached to the rest of the world." We believe the garden can be used to teach virtually any subject in a hands-on, meaningful way.

Andrew Jackson School

We are engaged in a multi-staged project to develop an innovative "green" curriculum that will not only be a vehicle for academic excellence for our school, but a low-cost model for other under-resourced public schools in Philadelphia. This garden will be a resource for hands-on learning that will engage and inspire our students to master testable skills in order to engage with deeper learning. Our garden will be a special place, where our students will grow plants they can eat.

John F. Kennedy Magnet School

The $2,000 will help us run the expansion of our JFK Garden after school project, as we started our program last year with 24 3rd graders. This year they are 4th graders. We have created a new curriculum for this cohort and will begin fall planting next week, along with recitation. In the Spring we will bring in a whole new cohort of 24 3rd graders, thus doubling the size of this project. The $2,000 will support our expansion.

PS 150 Tribeca Learning Center

Since PS 150 began in 1987, students, staff, and families have been brainstorming ways to grow their own food. The location of the school is on a concrete plaza, two stories up from the ground. The school shares the plaza with area residents and does not own a plot of land to use for growing food for students. Furthermore, it is possible that the school will be forced to relocate in several years. Thus, an indoor hydroponic system could move with us if this transition occurs. We hope to install two small hydroponic gardens in the Pre-K and Kindergarten classrooms.

Molalla River Academy

In each grade our goals are as follows: 1. Kindergarten: To use the garden as a tool to teach all five senses. Garden projects will be centered around art. 2. 1st/2nd Grade: The focus will be on recording observations and the understanding of basic requirements for life (sun and water). They will study annual and perennial plants and record what they notice about garden insects. Their garden job will include starting seeds and transplanting seedlings into the raised beds. 3.

Eutaw Marshburn Elementary School

The courtyard garden is situated in a public elementary school in a very marginalized area of Baltimore. There is very little green space for children and families to learn about "growing" things. It is our hope that this garden will be a laboratory and an educational center for the parents of school children. It will be a way to learn about making healthy food choices.

Briargrove Elementary

Our garden's goal is to bring learning outside and teach the wonder of nature. Our school is a candidate for the primary years programme of the International Baccaluaureate Organization. As a result, the curriculum is no longer taught in silos but integrated through the subjects. Per this new education model, the garden is an opportunity to not only observe and discuss science, but also to inspire writing exercises, art projects, talk about the geographical origin of the plants, math through measuring, and so on.

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