Academic Classrooms

FoodCorps Scotland County

FoodCorps is partnering with NC cooperative extension and Scotland County Schools to offer garden and nutrition education in the county schools.

Black Pine Circle School

Black Pine Circle School (BPC), an independent K-8 school in Berkeley, California, creates lifelong learners through an inquiry-based Socratic education that places equal emphasis on academics and the arts.

BPC's garden program started in 1997 with the hiring of a dedicated garden and landscape worker who expanded her role (and created the garden program) by collaborating with teachers to bring garden and environmental education to the school's students. She also supported the installation of recycling and composting infrastructure around the school. 

Skokie School Courtyard Garden & Happy Tillers Garden Club

In 2015 - 2016, Happy Tillers Garden Club staff and students collaborated to design, build, construct, and implement an extended school year organic gardening program. An indoor nursery was created to raise the seedlings, which were transplanted in April and May. Every child planted a seed in the spring, so that when they returned in the fall they could witness a physical manifestation of our school community. Produce was donated to the New Trier Township Food Pantry to support the nutrition of local residents.

St. Jude's Academy

St. Jude’s, a private school in Mississauga,  strives to prepare each child for high school, university and for life. Our core character values are responsibility and achievement balanced by caring and respect for one's self and for others. St. Jude’s is committed to small classes and small overall size, which allows for discovery and development of each student's unique talents and passions, while providing more opportunities for individual participation. St. Jude's is an IB World school.

Rocketship Los Sueños School Garden

Our school garden serves 500 students from grades K-5. It contains 12 beds and an open learning space where I teach a daily curriculum of life sciences, earth sciences, nutrition, gardening, and more.

The Montessori School at Hampstead

Montessori School at Hampstead (MSH) is a private, non-profit school in Montgomery, Alabama offering children in central Alabama an exceptional education based on proven Montessori principles.

MSH is governed by a dedicated Board of Directors and began operations in August 2011. MSH seeks to develop tomorrow’s leaders by encouraging critical thinking through an experiential curriculum with focuses on environmental stewardship and global studies.

Shaw Elementary School

Shaw Elementary seeks to utilize the courtyard of our school to share scientific learning of plant cycles, environments, wildlife patters, life cycles and multiple other research and discovery based topics with our students!

Joan Austin School Garden

We have a school garden with 8 raised bed boxes.  Through a Fiskar grant we got the garden planted and growing for this summer 2016.  Teachers will collaborate on how to use the garden beds for the coming year Sept-June 2016-17.  An urban forest is in the planning stages, and is going to be added on the same site as the garden.

Captain Planet Foundation

The mission of the Captain Planet Foundation is to give the next generation of environmental stewards an active understanding and love for the natural world in which they live.

For close to twenty-five years, we have been activating generations of environmentally literate citizens empowered to protect and sustain the natural systems upon which all life depends. Through our four main program areas, CPF invests in high-quality, solution-based programs that inspire and teach youth to become collaborators and agents of change.

River School Garden and Culinary Enrichment

Students in grades 6-8 work in the school garden through their science classes and a Garden/Culinary Enrichment class. They learn academic skills and concepts through the acts of growing food and cooking it. Projects include learning about atomic structure and the Periodic Table through studying how to enrich the garden soil, learning to make bread while studying cell biology and much more. Program funding comes through grants, local business partnerships, student council funding and parent volunteering.

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