Lower Elementary

The Active Learning Elementary School PS244Q

The goal of our garden is to grow vegetables that our students can taste as part of their nutrition education. We provide our students with a comprehensive nutrition education that involves them tasting healthy foods every third week. The opportunity to grow our own vegetables adds a unique dimension to our program as it would give ownership to our students over the food they eat. We would also use the garden in science classes, helping to teach students about how plants grow.

Carlos Gilbert Elementary School

The Whole Kids Foundation garden grant will help fund ongoing garden activities.

Edgar P. Harney Academy

Through Rethink, students develop as leaders by learning about and creating change in schools focused on food, nutrition and lunch, the environment, building designs, student conflict and discipline, reward structures, and physical activity. They have successfully introduced 21st century green bathroom designs, garden plots and healthy, tasty, local foods as policy in New Orleans public schools. Rethink is requesting Whole Kids Foundation's support to work with our Rethink school club at Edgar P. Harney Academy to develop a model garden plot on their campus in Central City New Orleans.

Axton Elementary School

Ultimately, the goal of our garden is to provide a hands on, real world experience for our students. With the garden we are able to bring multiple subjects to life such as science, math, art, & nutrition. Not only do we want students to learn academic content, we want them to learn self sustainability & conservation. This grant would allow us to expand our garden to include composting so that students can experience all parts of the gardening cycle. Our students currently harvest crops & seeds & provide regular maintenance to the garden.

The da Vinci Academy

The goal of this garden is to provide an outdoor learning environment for our school. Students, staff and the community will benefit from the beauty of the space, the harvest it yields, and the education it provides. Students will learn to care for and become active participants in their environment. They will be able to extend their learning beyond the classroom walls and into hands-on activities. We will strengthen our arts integration mission by incorporating the aesthetic aspects of the garden into many learning areas, like movement, science, art and writing.

Lakeland Elementary / Middle School

Lakeland Elementary/Middle School sees its garden as being both an educational space and a community space. Our current garden space was created with help from teachers, students, parents, community members, Master Gardeners, and a grant from the Office of Sustainability, and was used by grades 1st through 6th for science class.

Edith Landels Elementary School

The goal of our garden is to provide an outdoor learning place for all students, combining six new raised planter beds with a California native habitat garden and seating area for an entire class. The garden would be used for all Living Classroom lessons, for other lessons and activities organized directly by teachers, and extra-curricular activities through the new garden club to be launched in the fall of 2014 after the new garden is installed.

Washington Elementary

Our garden's goal is provide our third grade students with multiple meaningful opportunities to learn from this hands-on experience. Students will use this garden to: provide food for students in our community who are less fortunate and elderly, allow students to communicate and learn from our local community members, provide for a homeless ministry, and emphasize the importance of healthful eating, plant life-cycles, observing the land and soil, and teaching other students in the building about gardening.

Saint Paul School

The goal of this garden is serve as a practical and hands-on learning environment. Kids will maintain fruit and vegetable plants, caring for plants from seed to harvest. The process of growing will provide opportunities for teachers to incorporate subjects such as math, science, art, and health education in the classroom. Students will also complete gardening activities in the after school 4-H club. This grant will provide funds for equipment, soil and plants in order to start the garden off with a variety of crops. The community has donated some equipment to build a raised bed garden.

Hollingers Island Elementary School

According to the Center for Disease Control, gardening with kids is one of the best ways to encourage kids to make healthier food choices. The concrete experience of digging in the dirt and watching a vegetable grow, will remove any fear a child has regarding that vegetable, and when the child sees that vegetable in the grocery store he or she will ask mom or dad to buy it. In addition to making better food choices, gardening will also teach students confidence, motor skills, and math and science skills.

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