Middle School

ReNEW Schaumburg Elementary

The goal of our garden is to improve our students, families, and community's health. The garden provides an opportunity for students to learn about nutrition. Watching fruits and vegetables grow increases the likelihood they will eat more fruits and vegetables, become more knowledgeable about nutrition, and develop ownership over their own health. Through gardening, students are given the opportunity to learn and explore. They can try new things and engage in hands-on learning and physical activity.

Orchard Gardens K-8 Pilot School

CitySprouts gardens are a vital resource for children's health and learning. When teachers bring classes to the garden, children see difficult concepts come to life in a rich sensory environment. In this way the garden promotes academic engagement across the curriculum. The garden also connects children to the food they eat and empowers them to make healthy food choices. By planting and harvesting fruits, vegetables and grains, children develop a taste and appreciation for nutritious food.

Newman Academy

The goal of this garden is to teach and inspire students at our school about living healthy lives through growing their own organic fruits and vegetables! In our modern, fast paced society, many students never see green growing things in their daily environment. Enabling our students to see these gardens in the classroom and through the curriculum will provide a constant source of inspiration and refreshment for students, acting as a powerful visible metaphor for growth and transformation.

Learning Gate Community School

One of the goals of Learning Gate Community School's Seed to Soup Organic Garden is to enrich academic instruction by integrating gardening throughout the curriculum. By tending the garden on a weekly basis, students from kindergarten through 8th grade are actively involved in the entire garden cycle, including: planning, opening, cultivating the soil, maintaining compost, planting and harvesting vegetables and herbs.

Dr Martin Luther King Jr. School Complex

The mission of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School Garden is to create a lifelong learning opportunity for our students; growing food, caring for it, and sharing surplus. This grant will help us increase student learning and improve teaching by extending the classroom to include the outdoors. Students will be active partners and key stakeholders in the intellectual, emotional, physical and social growth that comes from the maintenance of the garden.

St. Albans City School

We are in our third year of having students plant, tend, and harvest vegetables, herbs, and flowers from our gardens. Our few fruit trees are too small to bear fruit yet. All our students get to taste what they helped grow. The goal is to give our (basically urban) students an understanding of how foods make it to their tables and how tasty the food they grow can be.

Coastal Middle School

Our eighth grade Humanities classes study the Colonial times from the early 1600's to the late 1700's. Our goal is to plant crops that sustained Colonial life. These cash crops were exported and used by the colonists in their everyday life. Each year our eighth grade students get to experience first hand what life was like during these times as they walk through Wormsloe Plantation. Back at school the opportunity for hands on learning; growing fruits and vegetables and bringing them to farmers markets, this will help us maintain our gardens.

Emma B Trask Middle School

Our first goal is to create an Ability/Sensory Garden. The purpose is to provide a dynamic interactive educational space for engaging in gardening with a therapeutic goal. These types of gardens are popular with and beneficial to both students and teachers, especially those who have sensory processing issues, including autism and other disabilities. It may be used as a calming place and as a gentle way to stimulate the senses.

Phoenix Academic Magnet Elementary

In Fall 2012, with help from Good Food Project (GFP) of The Food Bank of Central LA, we created four 4'x8' raised box organic garden beds & a compost area. While 4th Grade 4-H Club (includes all 87 of school's 4th graders) manages the garden, the entire school (689 students, Pre-K-6) utilizes the garden for science, health & nutrition education. Students learn from GFP staff & their teachers about seed germination, composting, cultivation, and creation & use of organic fertilizers & pesticides.

Brier Terrace Middle School

Our goals are:
to expand our current garden to give every student a space to plan, plant, and tend in connection with their science classes, incorporating Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core skills;
to give our suburban students some understanding of where their food comes from and the skills to grow their own food;

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