Garden Classrooms

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.

Meadows Elementary

We have three major goals for our school garden.
1.Increase Home-School Connection
•The garden will allow the parents, teachers and students to work side by side as a team in order to achieve a common goal.
•Parents will be able to showcase skills that may not fit into a traditional school setting i.e. construction, landscaping, and agricultural knowledge.
2.Making education hands-on and relevant
•Our student’s natural curiosity will be peaked the first time they experience something new.

William Fox Elementary

The garden's goal is to create an enrichment farm program within the Fox Elementary School curriculum in which all students have monthly learning opportunity at Fox Farm. The program supplements and correlates with the SOLs for each grade level. It's a unique hands-on experience for all Fox students that integrates science, math, art, and cooking.

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.

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