Lower Elementary

Crown Valley Elementary

Our goal is for our students to graduate from our campus with the skills & understanding of what healthy foods are, how to find the joy of growing them, & the awareness of the environmental impact they have. The Whole Kids Foundation Garden Grant will enable Crown Valley Elementary School to provide much needed repairs to our existing garden & green house, lesson plans for the teachers to use in the garden, & materials and seeds to plant & continue growing a thriving garden from year to year. Our garden is the central focus of our school grounds.

River Gate Elementary School

The River Gate Garden was established to enhance student learning with a hands on laboratory. As an extension to the science program for our 790 students, the garden serves as a permanently placed "growing" part of our school that provides opportunities for students to understand where food comes from. They see the effects of the topics discussed in class first hand as the soil, water, and seeds work together to produce flowers and vegetables from one week to the next.

Taylor Elementary School

Cleveland State Community College (CSCC) students will work with Taylor Elementary staff, teachers, and students to develop a Literacy garden at Taylor Elementary School. CSCC English students will read and write with the Taylor Elementary students in the Literacy garden.

Classroom in Bloom

Classroom in Bloom's mission is to deepen the connection between people and the land through school and community gardening. 

Venable Elementary School

Since spring 2012, our garden has become a vital force in our school and in the neighborhood. We are at point

Clark Elementary School

The goal of Clark School's garden is to create dynamic and project based learning opportunities for the students. Through these dynamic outdoor and hands-on learning experiences the students will learn about healthy food choices, how vegetables and fruits grow, creating ecosystems for native plants and insects. The grant will allow the school to further develop the vegetable and wildlife garden with additional plantings and raised beds. The grant will also allow us to purchase classroom materials to be used in the garden to augment the students' scientific understanding.

Cincinnati Waldorf School

Gardening is an important part of the Waldorf curriculum. We have used container gardens, raised beds, and tilled in-ground gardens at our two school campuses to meet the school's gardening curriculum goals for our elementary, kindergarten, and pre-K students. Our school is expanding our kindergarten and pre-K program at our Meshewa campus to include daily kindergarten and nursery classes.

The Elaine Clark Center

The christ Child Society of Atlanta is a chapter of the National Christ Child Society, a charitable federation of 40 chapters. Elizabeth's Garden is the Atlanta Chapter's Signature Program and was created to be an outdoor classroom, a living laboratory for students of the Elaine Clark Center to explore nature with their 5 senses. Our goal is to bring this Garden into the Classroom with monthly Cooking Classes and Classroom Activities.

Mary Collins School at Cherry Valley

Cherry Valley School has a greenhouse that has the potential to grow plants and young minds alike, but currently is in disrepair and unusable as a teaching space. The greenhouse could serve as a reliable outdoor teaching space, improving the garden and environmental education curriculum for our 6-8 grade classes.

Central Park Elementary

The goal of the garden of to create an area that serves multiple educational purposes. Fourth grade students will "buddy-up" with Kindergarten classes as readers and garden consultants. The intermediate students will read books regarding plants, planting and gardening with primary students, will help them plant in the garden and ultimately create an A-Z book about the garden. This will create leadership and mentoring roles for our older students and will incorporate reading skills and lessons taught to kindergartners with a real world experience.

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