Upper Elementary

Focus Learning Academy of N. Columbus K-8

Our school's garden will serve two functions. First we will use it to teach our students aquaponics techniques that they can use to grow food with very little water waste. These are skills they can use in real life application when they travel home to Africa to help grow food for everyone. Secondly they will be able to produce fresh vegetables that they can eat and share with their families. We are always actively trying to educate the community on how to make healthier food choices. Our school garden would be a great example of how to live a healthier lifestyle

Bayview Public School

It is the goal of the school council and the staff at Bayview Public School to create an edible garden on our school grounds. We believe there is no better way for children to learn than through hands-on experiences. This grant will allow us to build raised garden beds filled with fruits, vegetables, herbs and edible flowers. The garden will teach the children where their food comes from and the importance of environmental stewardship and healthy eating.

Morrill Elementary

The greatest gift of a garden is the restoration of the five senses. The goal for our garden is to truly make a safe, enjoyable and healthy place for the community to grow food, learn about new foods, share in the stewardship of a garden. With this grant we will make it our mission to promote healthy eating throughout the school community.

Thomas Edison Elementary School

The garden will provide a space for reading, discussions, and science-related study. In particular, it will help promote and instill healthier lifestyles in students given the rise of childhood obesity/diabetes. The planting and care of edible plants will provide the classes the opportunity to learn life-long healthy eating habits. One of the most important discoveries students make during their journey through elementary school is the discovery of the joy of learning.

Kilauea Elementary School

Our goal is to promote gardening activities as an integral part of our STEM curriculum. Cultures represented in our school have strong oral traditions expressed in music, dance, song and art. Science, math, social studies, language and cultural history teachable moments are abundant in this program. This program includes parent and community volunteers as well as aspects of healthy and nutritious food growing, gathering and consumption.

Cradleboard Elementary School

Our STREAM (Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Arts, & Math) Garden has a goal to introduce students to healthy eating choices. Students work closely with the Food Corps Teacher to select seeds to plant, start them indoors, & transplant them in Spring. Students built the garden last year as part of an engineering project. Since then, students have continued to maintain the garden and track growth in Math classes. Students sit on benches in the garden and write about their observations in their Science journals.

Franklin D. Roosevelt K-8 School

We are a full inclusion school where typical students and students with disabilities learn side by side . This project is needed because the primary focus of curriculum in the past has been literacy and math. This project would provide children with real-life applications of science and nature. With many of our students having special needs, the real world application is critical to their understanding. Our long term goal is for students to progress through the grades with a solid foundation of scientific inquiry and processes.

Kanu o ka Aina

Our garden program is called: “Huli ka Lima i Lalo” which in Hawaiian, means: “to turn the hands downward and be productive.” Our garden program is currently run and supervised completely by parent volunteers and is funded by donations for tools, materials, plants and equipment. If awarded this grant, these funds would help to sustain our garden by allowing us to purchase much needed equipment such as: new tires for wheel-barrows, hand tools, water hoses, watering cans, and mulch.

Eagle Valley Elementary

The school ecological garden is a 6 raised bed edible garden located on the school property. There is a fence around the garden and the outside garden will have a butterfly garden, sculpture garden, pumpkin patch and walking pathway. We have a master gardener/horticulture specialists at the school one day per week and on the weekends that cares for the garden and teaches horticulture, botany and nutrition to over 125 students on a weekly basis. We have a classroom garden along with our outdoor garden.

Keith Bovenschen School

My school is a center program for students ages 3-26 with moderate to severe disabilities. Three years ago we started the Bovenshen Community Garden. Our students benefit from learning about proper nutrition through real life experience and gain great work skills learning about a career in which they can possibly pursue in the future.

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