Garden Classrooms

Leonard R. Flynn Elementary School

Leonard R. Flynn Elementary is a Spanish immersion and general education public school in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood that serves a diverse community of students in grades Upper Elementary. Over the last five years, the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) at Flynn has worked to transform 2,000 square feet of the school’s blacktop into a school garden and outdoor classroom space where students from all grade levels learn about life cycles, healthy eating habits, and how to grow their own food.

El Camino Creek Elementary

The mission of ECC’s garden is to give all 700 students a meaningful educational experience in a dynamic outdoor learning environment. Our hands-on garden activities support problem-based approaches to learning by focusing on the processes of investigating problems and proposing and implementing creative solutions. In this unique educational environment, students work in teams, enabling not only the expansion of problem-solving abilities, but also the development of communication and critical thinking skills.

Pilgrim Wood Public School

To create gardens that provide an innovative means of engaging students and staff in collaborative, experiential, socially engaged, and nature-based approaches to teaching and learning; To build community amongst students, parents, staff, and surrounding community (neighbours, community groups such as Brownies/Girl Guides, and charitable organizations such as the local Food Bank)

Northeast High

This garden is a project that will involve students in a class called E.P.I.C.S., which stands for Engineering Projects in Community Service. This is a program that combines Service Learning with Engineering and Civic Engagement. A team of students will work with a community garden (Fruitful Field)'s education coordinator, and a University of Florida Extension Service Farms to School Coordinator, and an after school club to design, plant, and care for the garden. We will use the garden as a teaching tool as well as a source of food.

Jackson Heights Elementary

Jackson Heights goal is to utilize our garden area in order to provide educational opportunities to students in a wide array of disciplines including natural sciences, math, history, visual arts and nutrition. Our goal is for students to experience the process of growing food, introduce them to new fruits and vegetables and increase their awareness of the importance of good nutrition.

Oak Ridge Elementary

The goal of the Discovery Garden at Oak Ridge Elementary is to instill within each student a life-long passion for learning through nature based experiences. The garden's eight interactive areas encourage students to gain an understanding of science, math, reading, writing, art, and music. The Discovery Garden at ORE has become a part of the campus culture with each preceding grade level anticipating the next year's garden activities as they get older.

Parkway Montessori and Community Middle

Parkway Montessori is located on the East Side of St. Paul in a neighborhood school that opened in the 30s. It is both a Montessori AND community school, serving the residents in the first St. Paul Public Montessori Middle school. It opened in 2013 and is dedicated to educating the whole child.

montezuma elementary school

Create 3 different reading gardens at the Kinder 1st and Reading Garden areas of the school. Have all students plant and taste fruits and vegetables and herbs. burn calories by gardening. Work with existing program Books and Cooks and National PTA healthy Habits. Ask Comcast and Presbyterian and Whole Foods to support. Work with Cafeteria staff and PTA and local organizations - raised beds going up at Stanford County UNM building.

Arcadia Neighborhood Learning Center

For two years we've had the opportunity to have local chefs harvest a small portion of food from our multiple gardens and share their famous recipes. Not only do the visiting chefs volunteer their time, they also supplement their recipes with food they donate. Additional supplies needed such as cooking utensils, basic pantry items, additional food, drinks and paper products were all donated by a private citizen.

Daniel Webster School

Our garden holds activities 3 times per year that allow students to learn about plant biology, sustainable living, and environmental responsibility. As an urban school, many students do not have yards at all, have never even walked on grass, much less dug in the dirt to plant, or experience the joy of seeing gardens grow as a result of their own toiling (and tilling). Our goal is to put a plant in each child's hand, so they can experience this and understand, in a practical way, that the Earth is our responsibility, and we rely on it to provide essential resources.

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