Upper Elementary

Meadow Glen Elementary School

We want to start a garden that encourages a healthly lifestyle to the school and surrounding community. Our health and wellness committee wants to promote and educate a healthy diet by providing an opportunity for the students, faculty, and parents to learn about gardening, sparking an interest in vegetables and fruits of our garden, and educating the healthy benefits of various fruits and vegetables in our garden.

McKinley Elementary School

The goal of our school garden is to introduce the students as well as some parents and teachers to healthy food choices and the process involved in growing, nurturing, and cultivating healthy foods. We also hope to educate the students about which types of plants may be invasive species which could damage the crops that they are growing and cultivating. This grant will allows us to continue our mission of educating McKinley Elementary School students about the natural world as well as nutrition and healthy food choices.

McClure Elementary

McClure Elementary's Watch Us Grow Garden will enrich its students' k-6 education by incorporating instruction in financial planning, nutrition, civic engagement, environmental awareness, and violence and bullying prevention. The Watch Us Grow committee will guide classes through seasonal units designed to help teachers reinforce their Common Core Standards as set forth by the Oklahoma Department of Education.

Mary Buren Elementary School

The goal for the Mary Buren Garden is to make it an integral part of the school community.

There are 815 students in the school. The goal is to have as many teachers use the garden as a classroom to enrich student

Mark Twain Elementary

Our garden was established many years ago but it has fallen into a state of neglect with minimal planting and limited involvement by the students. This year, with the help of our Master Gardener, we have begun to revitalize the garden. Our goal is to establish regular rotational planting of a healthy variety of edible plants in order to expose our students to the many educationally beneficial aspects of a garden. The grant will help us to buy some much needed essentials such as a wheelbarrow, a composting bin, and to upgrade our irrigation system.

Maldonado Elementary

Maldonado gardening and outdoor learning program. Organized to refine and engage in outdoor learning activities. Inspiring teachers to integrate suitabilities by use of the garden into their curriculum.

Mill Road Intermediate School

The Mill Road Garden Program seeks to create a sense of place and stewardship for our students through hands-on, experiential learning in our indoor and outdoor classrooms.

LP Quinn Elementary

The students in my elementary self-contained special education classroom will be replanting a school garden for a variety of reasons: to watch how a seed grows into a vegetable, fruit, or flower; learn about healthy eating habits; learn responsibility for taking care of a garden; work on math (measuring, counting, sorting) and science skills; work with members of the high school's Green Team and other community members; use the compost materials from cafeteria wastes; and, eventually, contribute to the local food pantry and school cafeteria (regulations being considered).

Lovell Elementary

I work in a multi-cultural Title 1 school, and I believe that the establishment of a garden at this school will provide educational opportunities as well as bring our students to accomplish a common goal. Maintaining and caring for the garden will reward the students with vegetables to share with their families and other students in need.

I am a mentor to five students and wanted to have a special project to work on together with them and that is why I came up with the idea to create The Mentor Garden at Lovell Elementary.

Longleaf Elementary School

Longleaf Elementary School has a husband and wife team that spearheads our garden program. Theresa McLaughlin is our 5th grade Math teacher and her husband Robert is a retired civil servant who is a Master Gardener. We intend to create a sustainable garden program which serves our students, their parents and surrounding community. We have developed a master plan that incorporates our entire campus.

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