Upper Elementary

Mission Estancia Elementary School

Our school community's goal for the garden is to enrich students' education by:
- providing children opportunities to grow and eat fresh produce
- allowing students to participate in hands-on science and environmental lessons
- making connections to grade-level classroom curriculum
- developing a program which is lasting and sustainable

Wilshire Park Elementary School

The students at Wilshire Park Elementary School love the garden; they till soil, search for larvae, admire spiders, and plant foods such as potatoes, watermelon, and spinach. However, due to a period of trouble-shooting issues with the water supply at the school, many plants have died or are failing to mature. With the Whole Kids Foundation grant, our goal is to upgrade their garden into a healthy, flourishing environment full of abundant plant life.

St. Anne Catholic School

The Giving Field is a one acre piece of property located in Beaumont, Texas that gives all of the harvest to feed the hungry in the community. One soup kitchen in Beaumont and one soup kitchen in Port Arthur, Texas receive weekly deliveries of organically grown fresh fruits and veggies and cage free eggs. This garden was founded in October 2012 and in two short years over 13,000 pounds of organically grown fruits and veggies have been donated to the two soup kitchens.

Dan Mills Elementary

Our main goal for the school garden this year is to increase participation and use of the garden by teachers, students, and community members. As our school is a Title I school with a majority of students eligible for free and reduced lunch, it is essential to introduce fresh fruits and vegetables to our students directly. When students are involved in every step of producing food from seed to table, they gain a firsthand knowledge that is lacking in many urban environments.

Arthur Kramer Elementary School

The main goal of Kramer’s Learning Garden is to provide a living classroom that expands student learning through hands-on experiences involving discovery, inquiry and reflection during science and math activities. The garden lends itself to Life and Earth Science experiments which will extend the curriculum beyond the classroom walls enriching learning. Additionally, through the Garden program, we strive to involve as many administrators, teachers, parents, students and community members to be a part of the learning within the garden.

Lt. Job Lane Elementary School

The garden at Lane School was started in 2009 with the goal of bringing a hands-on education experience to grades 3 – 5. The education experience crosses many different areas of our curriculum from math (weight and measurement), science (weather), health (eating fresh fruits and vegetables) and community (donations to local families in need). The expansion of our garden will provide Lane the ability to show students the practical application of the school curriculum and a delivery method that appeals to a broad-spectrum of learners.

Sunset Hills Elementary School

Sunset Hills Elementary School is a true community school located in Tarpon Springs, Florida. This grant will us preserve the family tradition of creating and sharing memories "Around the Table." The project objective is to create opportunities for students to understand the how concept of scientific thinking is a survival skill which effects global learners. The intended math and science experiences are researched based to enable students to connect and apply science concepts to everyday family and school life.

Bardmoor Elementary

The goal of this project is to expand our school garden and to focus on topics involving productive planting and harvesting of fruits and vegetables, healthy eating habits, and planting Florida’s native flowers and plants. While the main focus of the lessons will be for the school’s afterschool enrichment STEM program, which focuses on grades four and five, the entire school will have access to the garden to incorporate into lessons at all grade levels.

Dawes Intermediate

The Outdoor Learning Center should be an enhancement to the educational experience at Dawes Intermediate School, an experience that each student who participates should recall for a lifetime. The OLC will be a long term investment in educating the children of Dawes Intermediate School on Healthy Lifestyles and Specialty Crops. We hope that our outdoor learning center will bring the community back into our schools as well. Outdoor learning centers give so much to the children and community.

Grove Park Elementary School

The Wild about Learning through Gardening” project will be located on a 20m x 20m lot of ground from which two condemned portables were razed and cleared a year ago. The area is bathed in 10-12 hours of full sunlight, year round. Under the leadership of the K-6 Gifted classes, with an allowance for school wide collaborative voice and involvement in all project phases, we decided on raised bed herbs and vegetable plants, and experimentally safe gardening types and methods and shapes such as keyhole gardens, gunny sack gardens, and straw bale gardens.

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