Lower Elementary

Allison Park Elementary School

Our goal is to build and maintain a vegetable garden at Allison Park Elementary that will serve multiple roles in our community:
I. The garden will introduce young children and their families to the joy and excitement of growing food.
II. The garden will be a hands-on laboratory for learning about science, the
environment, and nutrition for both children and adults.
III. The garden will serve as an educational model for other Washington County communities.
IV. Ultimately the garden will be a point of pride for our community

Futures Elementary School

Our resources now, only permit us to work with a small percentage of the total school population and so a grant would enable us to broaden the scope of the student involvement. Broadening the scope could not only mean including more students but also expanding the activities around the garden, i.e

Northside Elementary

The three major goals for this garden project are:
1. Develop and meet the needs of the multiple learning styles and intelligences of our students' while giving the opportunity to develop a life-long hobby and increase social skills traits.
2. To increase and strengthen the relationships between our community members, students, and school district.

Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary School

The goal of our garden is to connect children to the Earth and the Earth to the table. Children can be very disconnected between the food they eat and where their food comes from. In grocery stores, they see packaged, processed foods filling aisle after aisle. We want children to develop awareness and appreciation for real, whole foods. A school garden is where that learning can take place. We also want children to develop respect for our planet. Growing our own food can inspire children to realize that our health and quality of life depends on the health of our planet.

St. John the Apostle School

To develop an outdoor learning garden and classroom for all of the students (through 8th grade) at St. John the Apostle School. We would like to educate and raise awareness of our natural resources and the impact they have on the environment.
Goals: Our goal is to make learning more meaningful and more enjoyable as children learn an appreciation of the many components of the world in which they live.
Outdoor education goals include:
- using critical thinking skills
- learning through direct experience
- exploring
- decision making

St. Leo the Great

The goal of our program is to be a model of environmental stewardship by creating a sustainable garden and integrating it into our school and community life. This grant will make it possible for us to:
1) Build a 3-tiered grow light to extend our growing season and save seeds (and money!).
2) Develop a school-wide composting program where students in every grade will learn how to will collect cafeteria waste and turn it into useful nutrients for our plants.
3) Turn our garden into an outdoor classroom with seating and a chalkboard/community bulletin board.

Washington Discovery Academy

Our primary project goal is to create a large garden at the school - planned, built, planted, maintained and harvested by children - which will result in a salad bar in the cafeteria. Secondarily, we hope to impact the nutritional habits of children through the experiences described above. And finally, we expect to help children understand the importance of stewardship in order to insure a sustainable future.

Mount Rose PK-8 Academy of Languages

It is the mission of the Mount Rose School Garden to provide an outdoor garden space for teachers to incorporate into their science, writing and math curriculum as well as provide our diverse student population with an experience that they may not otherwise have access to. Creating a sustainable school garden will engage and educate students, teachers, parents and the community in the importance of fresh local food and ultimately teach them to take pride in themselves, their school and what they are eating.

Collingwood School

Collingwood's goal for implementing garden beds at our school is to provide students and teachers with the opportunity to take learning outside. We feel that having gardens at Collingwood School will give children engaging, hands on experience to plant and experiment outdoors. Nature inspires a sense of wonder and curiosity among children. Through our gardening project at Collingwood School children will develop an appreciation for their environment and a lifelong love of the world around them.

Meridian World School (formerly known as International Academy of Williamson County)

Meridian World School is a publicly-funded tuition-free charter school offering the International Baccalaureate curriculum. Our mission: *We provide an invigorating educational environment that develops responsible citizens who can artfully navigate our complex world and enjoy a good life with others. *Each student engages in diverse investigations, disciplined inquiry, and integrated service learning to cultivate intercultural awareness, creativity and mental acuity.

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