Lower Elementary

Tinc Road School

Our primary goals are to provide students with the hands-on learning experience of growing vegetables, reinforce/apply concepts learned in class and increase their daily vegetable intake. By stressing this, these healthier food choices will lower BMI, which for our 1st graders starts at 4% and climbs steadily to 15% of 5th graders being overweight. Children who grow and harvest their own food are more likely to try it and make healthier choices. The students will also learn about organic and sustainable farming and how to protect these resources.

Montessori School of Louisville

Montessori School of Louisville is planning a garden based upon the Edible Classroom Project. The garden will be developed in a green space behind the school which contains a few much-loved raised vegetable beds. Because of the success and interest in these vegetable beds, we want to expand our garden into a complete outdoor classroom. This outdoor classroom will be an extension of our indoor learning in every major subject area. Additionally, it will provide a means for engagement with the local community, by extending the use of the gardens to nearby neighborhoods.

Mountain Road School

The goal of our garden is to immerse our students in the natural process of growing food and working in partnership with the earth in a balanced and nurturing way. Mountain Road School has recently renovated an historic home which has presented us with opportunities and challenges. The opportunity before us is the creation of garden space- designed by teachers, parents and students in collaboration. The challenge comes from years of corn crops grown in the soil.

Morris Elementary School

The overall goal of the school garden is to be able to teach the younger students the importance of eating healthy food. With the obesity problem growing each year in the United States and especially in Oklahoma we must do everything we can to combat it. In Morris we have a very successful vo-ag program that currently has over 200 students (approxiamately 25%) but it is only available to the older students. Having a school garden the younger students can take pride in what they grow and we hope that they are more likely to try and enjoy foods that they grew.

Sligo Creek Elementary

The goal of the school garden is that it will become the centerpiece of a new outdoor classroom, which will be located in an enclosed courtyard shared between Sligo Creek Elementary School and Silver Spring International Middle School. The space currently houses lawns and some plants but has not been consistently used as an instructional resource. The garden will afford our students the opportunity to see and personally experience plant lifecycles (and associated lifecycles of animals that depend on them) with their own senses rather than simply reading about them in books.

Lincoln Elementary School

*To provide highly engaging hands-on science education.

*To develop good nutritional habits and understanding of the importance of healthy eating.

*To involve students in service learning by donating a portion of our produce to our local food pantry.

*To teach students the importance of being good stewards of land and natural resources.

*To connect students with their own and each others' cultural backgrounds through food.

Micheltorena Street Elementary School

Our organic garden was built in November 2010, and is equal parts interdisciplinary school environment and community project. The goal of the garden is to teach students and the community about environmental sustainability, urban cooperative living, food justice and healthy lifestyles by simultaneously serving as an experiential, cooperative outdoor classroom during schooltime, and a gathering place for the neighborhood on evenings and weekends.

St. Bedes Catholic School

The Littles Road Community Garden has already completed one successful growing season. Our dedicated team of volunteers helped to plan and implement the garden from the ground up and has been integral in the daily operation of the site. Next year we hope to develop the Malvern Community Greenhouse and Learning Centre which will offer community members and students from surrounding schools the space and opportunity to learn about the growing cycle from seed to harvest.

Galileo

The 765 currently enrolled school children at Galileo STEM School will have an opportunity to participate in the school garden project. Parents, teachers and other family members will also have the opportunity to volunteer and participate with the school vegetable garden.

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