Lower Elementary

Farm Style Cooking For Kids

Kids learn how to create delicious healthy snacks, salads and desserts with seasonal organic ingredients from local farmers markets. Farm Style Cooking classes celebrate the joy of tasting, touching, smelling and experiencing the foods we make and share with others.

Farm Style Cooking For Kids can be found at the Mar Vista Farmers Market and Beethoven Elementary School.

Urban Community School

Almost 50 years ago, the Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland founded Urban Community School (UCS), a quiet gem in the heart of Cleveland’s near west side where a diverse, multilingual population of low-income students, (74 percent qualify for the Federal Food Assistance Program, with more than 2/3 of our student body qualifying for free lunch), concurrently learn academics and social justice.  Our commitment to differentiated instruction, multi-age learning, health and wellness, field trips and peace typifies our unique approach to student learning and success.

GrowLab at The Lab School of Washington

    At the Lab School we understand the connection
    between active learning and achievement inside and out of the
    classroom.  Our mission is to create a learning garden that
    serves as a tool for interdisciplinary, hands-on education, that
    also creates a much-needed connection to the environment, the
    food we eat and how our food choices impact ourselves and those
    around us.
    The Lab School of Washington is a private school for students with
    learning disabilities.  Our students require individualized

Farm Field Studies

THE MARIN ORGANIC FARM FIELD STUDIES PROGRAM brings children and young adults from around the Bay Area to local farms. Students have the opportunity to engage in hands-on learning where they make connections between the environment, agriculture, and the food they eat. Our goal is to empower young people to make food choices that will positively impact their long-term health. Knowledge of where food comes from is a powerful tool for teaching good nutrition.

Garden to Table Trust

The Garden to Table Programme is currently implemented in 309 schools across New Zealand. 

A revolutionary approach to food education

Lhomon Education

Lhomon Education (LME) is a grassroots initiative fostering the development of innovative curricula designed specifically for Bhutanese students. The basis of the LME initiative is an alternative model of teacher training and project-based curriculum development that integrates principles of Gross National Happiness (GNH) in the truest sense of the term.

The Orchard School - Outdoor Education

A hallmark of an Orchard education, Outdoor Education is education in, about, and for the out of doors. In an increasingly urban world, nature plays a central part in the education of the whole child. Direct experiences help students gain a deeper understanding of life around them, foster respect and an understanding of the interrelationships within the natural environment, and develop an appreciation of people's interdependence with the natural world.

Environmental Charter School

The Environmental Charter School at Frick Park creates standards-based educational experiences for students through the thematic lens of environmental content.

Mission

The mission of The Environmental Charter School at Frick Park is to educate each student to high academic learning standards using a themed curriculum that will foster knowledge, love of and respect for the environment and the will to preserve it for future generations.

Description

Hinton Elementary School

The grant will provide an opportunity for parents and students in our community to plant and grow many fruits and vegetables they need to sustain a healthy lifestyle. Students will use their math and science skills to build and configure the size and shape of the garden bed , while enhancing their knowledge and gardening skills . They will learn how each garden tool is used. They will also learn about cell structure and parts a of plant.

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