Upper Elementary

Mariano Castro Elementary School

Expose as many children as possible through garden science to ecology. habitats, ethnobotany, nutrition, math, and living sciences. In teaching children we utilize two main school garden areas. One is a native California plant garden and the other a large12 bed edible planter box garden. This grant will allow for continued maintenance and improvements to our garden facilities

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Watkins Elementary School

The garden is central to success of our FoodPrints program, which aims to integrate hands-on learning about healthy, nutritious eating into DC elementary schools. For the past 4 years we have partnered with FRESHFARM Markets to involve Watkins students with growing, harvesting, cooking and eating fresh, nutritious, local foods in an effort to change their attitudes toward and willingness to eat those foods. We now have a large fenced in vegetable garden, a teaching kitchen, 3 paid part-time teachers, and a curriculum that supports the applicable learning standards.

University of West Alabama Campus School

A Whole Kids Garden Grant to the UWA Campus School will provide the seeds, literally and figuratively, to grow healthy kids and communities in rural, west Alabama. Start-up funds for the proposed project will lay the foundation for a year-round garden and jumpstart a supplemental science curriculum for our students. Because the Campus School is an integral part of the University and community, the garden project will generate interest in healthy lifestyles in both our students and the community at large as a result of on-going outreach programming and volunteer opportunities.

Briarlake Elementary

Over the last 5 years, we have created and maintained 360 degrees of garden and outdoor learning spaces at Briarlake Elementary. These are now a defining characteristic of our public elementary school, but requires ongoing investment and maintenance to keep them available for classroom use year round. Given the transition to newly adopted Common Core Standards, teachers would welcome the opportunity to purchase teaching tools that allow them to seamlessly integrate gardening into teaching the new curriculum.

Kennedy Alternative High School

The garden/greenhouse is used as outdoor/indoor classrooms for place-based experiential learning, with an emphasis on developing a model for learning entrepreneurial and vocational skills in sustainable agricultural with a newly-added aquaculture program and additional propagation space.

Three Chopt Elementary School

Implementing a garden project at Three Chopt Elementary School will support three main goals. First, the garden will become a vital component of health, science, and math instruction across the k-5 curriculum. In support of the Health/P.E. program, gardening activities offer immediate lessons on the value of fresh fruits, vegetables, and exercise to a healthy lifestyle. The math and science skills of observing, measuring, hypothesizing, conserving resources, and analyzing data emphasized at all grade levels are readily incorporated into gardening projects and experiments.

James G. Blaine Elementary

Our mission is to create an outdoor learning space that compliments and expands students

Boscawen Elementary School

One goal for the Healthy You Garden Project is for students at Boscawen Elementary School to have hands-on experience with growing and eating foods that are good for their health. We made a good start toward this goal during the 2011-2012 school year. With these additional funds, we will be able ensure better success for our efforts through improvements to our soil, reliable irrigation, and additional means of protecting our seedlings as they germinate and grow.

Bell Elementary/Tulsa Public Schools

Our goal is more involvement with our parents and community members in making a garden to benefit our families and partners. We are on a path of becoming a Community School in our district. We want to engage our volunteers, partners, and retired community members in a project to not only beautify our school, but make it a major focal point. The garden would be an active learning center for our mainstream students as well as our students with disabilities. We would involve stakeholders and parents in creating an environment for learning and using science hands-on.

Washington Elementary School

The goal of our garden project is to continue with the next step on the journey of creating a school garden. Last year we were contacted by a group of Master Gardeners. They wanted to team up with our school and provide education and experience in gardening to a group of students and they were become Junior Master Gardeners. We had a special spot to develop into a school garden. We contacted our local high school shop class and they were able to build us raised planter beds at a very reasonable cost.

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