Upper Elementary

The Independent School

Our goals for this garden are to donate 50% of the produce to local food banks and use 50% of it in our school cafeteria and classrooms.

The 50% used in our cafeteria will help us include hands on nutrition education and experience with nourishing food to teach students the purpose and value of healthy food, to question their food trends and to ultimately gain ownership of their food choices.

Lake Hills STEM Elementary

At Lake Hills STEM Elementary School we would like to install Vertical Wheel Gardening Units (VWGU) which will help students apply next-generation technology skills into the world of hydroponics gardening. One of our goals is to help students understand how the concepts of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) have been used throughout the history of gardening. Our gardens (Native American, pioneer, raised bed, and rain gardens) serve as living laboratories which provide our K-6 students with a real-world context for integrating lessons across all subject areas.

WISH CHARTER

Our goal is to provide a garden classroom to our students. To expose them to their source of food and to teach them valuable gardening and horticulture concepts and skills that integrate with several subjects, such as math, science, art, health and physical education, and social studies, as well as several educational goals, including personal and social responsibility.

Vance Village Elementary School

Our program will be called HANDS in the Kitchen Garden. HANDS is an acronym for Health and Nutrition Discovery Science. We are an urban school committed to providing real world experiential learning for our students. The schools Green Team is committed to changing the culture of the schools current eating habits through hands-on nutrition and culinary education, as well as, integrating other subject areas.This grant will allow us to build an outdoor kitchen and education space in the existing garden to be utilized by every grade level.

Estes Park Elementary School

A school garden within the new Estes Valley Community Garden will allow children to develop a meaningful connection to the food they eat. It will support virtually every area of the elementary school curriculum, infusing the study of plants and nature with a sense of relevance and wonder. It will provide opportunities for children to learn outdoors in spring and fall, and support healthy eating habits by making locally grown plant-based foods an appealing and real thing.

Templeton Elementary School

The Little Green Thumbs Garden goal is to have a fun, sustainable, student-centered learning environment that reinforces academic concepts that are taught in the classroom. We also want students to learn the importance of helping others and the environment by growing their own food in a garden. Our garden is divided into different areas, including planter boxes, and outdoor classroom, a courtyard, a composting station, a greenhouse, and a tool storage area.

Dianne Feinstein Elementary School

We have three main goals for our school garden. We aim to create a connection to healthy food, teach science lessons outside and cultivate stewardship ethic for our students.

Augusta Circle Elementary School

Augusta Circle’s “CATCH Patch” gives students the opportunity to experience hands-on learning using the garden as a cross-curriculum teaching tool, while at the same time emphasizing the importance of fruits and vegetables to healthy life choices. Augusta Circle was an early adopter of the Coordinated Approach to Child Health (CATCH), which transformed our cafeteria offerings and has helped students better understand the difference between “go,” “slow,” and “whoa” foods, while emphasizing exercise and physical activity.

Monroe Elementary

The garden at Monroe Elementary is a project that students, teachers, and community alike, have taken ownership of. It is our plan to continue to make improvements to our garden to ensure that it endures for future classrooms at Monroe to enjoy and learn from. One major component of the vision for the garden that has not yet been realized is to provide an irrigation system. Currently Monroe is the only Santa Barbara School District school participating in the Explore Ecology Garden Program that does not have a drip irrigation system.

PS 84 Lillian Weber

The WITS Tower Garden will be the primary feature of the WITS Green for Kids program, with the goal of increasing environmental awareness and develop sustainable practices in public schools. Because the Tower Gardens are mobile, students can connect to nature anywhere in their school, year-round. The Tower Gardens will be featured in the WITS Green Labs, hands-on educational classes on sustainability topics; used to support the WITS Culinary Labs; and also made available to teachers for use in their curricula.

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