Lower Elementary

Christ Lutheran School

The goal of our garden's project is to take an unused space and make it a vibrant part of the school curriculum. We have planned a bed for each grade level, and one for the Girl Scouts who have committed to care for one planter bed. We also have room to add on for community groups once we get our school program rolling. We plan to donate extra produce to the hungry via the Church and the Utah Food Bank depending on how much we have to spare.

Seymour Heights Elementary

Seymour Heights Elementary School is striving to be an innovative leader and role model for outdoor learning in North Vancouver. We live and learn in an amazing natural environment. Seymour Heights Elementary also wants to redefine the classroom. Learning can happen anywhere; a classroom does not have to be inside, in a room, in a school, it can be in the forest, by the stream, in the playground, in a vegetable garden.

Dr. Barbara Jordon Elementary

Our goal is to take learning outside the walls of the classroom to achieve maximum student engagement. Kids who are fully engaged in learning will be better students and will retain knowledge longer. This will lead to many positives, including improved classroom behavior and better grades.

Morgantown Learning Academy

Our goal is to connect our garden with in-class curriculum for all grades from Pre-K through Eighth Grade. This will include hands-on reinforcement of our Curriculum Standards and Objectives. Our Lead Teacher is directly integrating garden activities into the curriculum while working with Project Learning Tree.
We currently have an afterschool cooking club which will incorporate harvested produce into its dishes. One of our other staff members is a chef and plans to use vegetables from the garden in cooking demonstrations.

Lake Seneca Elementary School

The goal of Lake Seneca Elementary School Garden Club is to continue to build on the two in-ground edible gardens already inside it's courtyard and in the coming year to become not only a popular after-school club but an integral part of the school community, integrating the garden into the students' daily school curriculum. In the last two years this garden has brought together a diverse group of students and helpers.

Saint Kateri Tekakwitha

Our goals are:
1. Maintain environmental awareness at St Kateri
2. Remain a Platinum Eco School through these type of initiatives
3. Be seen as a model for other schools to follow in their green space or school property
4. Teaching tool by having the students learn through garden clubs and incorporating it into all aspects of curriculum
5. continuing with our belief in giving to others
6. Mentoringship where the older students help the younger students plant and learn how to create sustainable gardens

Battle Academy for Teaching and Learning

The goal of the Battle Academy rooftop garden is to educate students in real world gardening skills, give them opportunities to learn about preparing and eating healthy food, and contributing to the good of our school community by adding to the school yard and landscape of the garden. The garden itself was created to be a learning space for all student Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, at Battle but the garden club was created so students could play a larger role in our school community.

Kathryn Winn Primary School

The gardens themselves are the cornerstone of the Kathryn Winn Environmental Gardens; however, the program has additional facets as well. A cafeteria recycling program that has grown into a school-wide recycling movement is a complementary piece, beginning with the simple goal of collecting paper to recycle and now including recycling initiatives to collect paper products, milk cartons from the cafeteria, plastic wrappers, aluminum products, and food scraps. The food scraps from the cafeteria are composted using a vermicomposting system located by the gardens.

Knob Noster High School

The goal of our school garden is a simple one: to help build a stronger bond between our school and our community. One of our district goals is to improve the relationship that our school has with parents and community members. This garden could be a helpful tool in allowing us to achieve our goal. By planting this garden we are not only educating our students on where their food comes from, but we are opening up an opportunity to bring the community to our school and share in a joint project. This project will also allow us to strengthen the relationship between our schools.

Rio Rosales Elementary

The goal of the garden is primarily twofold. First, the students would learn from where plant-based, whole food comes. The reality for many of our students is that they consume pre-packaged, processed foods on a daily basis. At a young age, we want to instill in our students that good, healthy food comes from the earth. We would love for students to be able to see the stages of food growth and care for the plants. Secondly, as a by product of learning about how food is grown, we want to teach our students responsibility.

Pages