Upper Elementary

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.

LaGrange Highlands Elementary School

Our goal is to provide an outdoor learning environment for our students. This project will be a real world, authentic, ongoing program. Students are currently evaluating garden sites for the best place for a garden. They are listing pros and cons for each, including water source, adequate sunlight and space, and room to grow. Students will plant seeds and take care of plants, research, keep plant diaries, collect data, teach others about our garden and conduct experiments on plants. We will start with 10 raised beds.

Gerard Elementary School

This project is a unique collaboration between Gerard Elementary School and Hill College (a 2-year college). Biology students from Hill will assist the elementary students in installing and maintaining raised bed gardens on the Gerard campus, while also teaching them how to use available recycled items such as pallets, cardboard, newspaper, and trash cans in order to create gardens, compost bins, and rain barrels. Hill students will also create guidance books for each plant, teaching organic methods for weed and pest control, planting, and fertilizing.

Colorado Springs Charter Academy

Our goal is to make possible a “Grow to Learn Garden” for our students - that is sustainable for years to come. The vision is to impact all 505 of our students, 55 staff members and 1000’s of parents and community members. We are a K-8 school, with a 30% free and reduced lunch rate. Our garden will built by March 2015 by our 6th-8th grade classes, supported and supervised by our PTO and Booster Parents and Science Teachers.

Monroe Elementary School

Our goal is to develop our garden for outdoor education that is integrated with in-class curriculum in core subject areas. Garden education has amazing potential to address multiple subject matters. The garden will serve as a living classroom for exploring food systems, ecological principles, and sustainable practices while fostering students’ creativity, and social and emotional development.

Sunflower Elementary School

The goal for our garden is enable the students of Sunflower Elementary, and Boys & Girls Club at Sunflower, to gain knowledge about gardening as well as healthy cooking and eating. At Sunflower, there are 220 students who qualify for free or reduced lunches and breakfasts. Even though they get two meals at school a significant amount will not get dinner or food over the weekends. The food produced from the garden will be able to be sent home with families who need the supplemental food.

Scott School K-8

Scott School is a K-8 and serves a diverse population in NE Portland, Oregon. In 2013, 84% of the students qualified for free or reduced lunch; the majority does not speak English in their home; and over 40% are active English language learners including significant Latino, Somali, and Vietnamese populations. A school garden is popular among the community regardless of ethnicity or language, making it a potential bridge for this diverse community.

Indianapolis Lighthouse Charter School

Our garden’s goal is to engage the school and greater community to embrace health and wellness by showing them how wonderful fresh fruits and vegetables can be when you get to grow them and eat them straight out of your own garden. First grade teacher, Sara Hacker, is already doing this in her own classroom but is excited to spread her knowledge and enthusiasm for integrating gardening into her curriculum. Together, with Title I Teacher, Kimila Brown, they will invite teachers, students, parents, and community members to tackle questions such as, “What is the best use of our garden area?

Glendale Primary School

The garden's goal is to provide every child, from grades Pre-K to 3, an opportunity to experience the Glendale Discovery Garden through hands-on learning. The garden includes 10 raised garden beds, an EPA certified wetlands, a covered learning center, a pond, and is surrounded by a double-fenced walking area. The garden was originally established as a pumpkin patch 20 years ago in 1994 by a passionate group of teachers so every pre-K student would have the opportunity to pick a pumpkin and has since been transformed and enhanced into the phenomenal garden it is today.

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