Garden Classrooms

Oaklawn

The Oaklawn Community Garden, a project of the Derby Recreation Commission, Derby Public Schools and local volunteers and businesses will allow community members and students to grow their own vegetables for use in meals they prepare, utilize the garden to teach students about where their food comes from and how food is grown and provide produce from the garden that will be donated to the community food bank to help feed those in need. If we receive this grant, we will use it to install raised beds and provide adaptive tools that to make the garden ADA Compliant.

Cleveland Elementary

How Does Your Garden Grow will allow students to learn about sprouting plants from seeds as well as the scientific concept of photosynthesis. Primary grade students will work with intermediate grade students to produce starts for outdoor garden boxes.
Students will be given a pretest to find out what students already know and what they need to learn. Teachers will teach about photosynthesis and germination. The students will begin their gardens with containers, collecting and recording data as the seeds sprout in a variety of controlled growing environments.

Doyle Elementary School

The goal of our garden is to provide our students and their families with the opportunity to enjoy watching plants grow and involve them in the process of nurturing life. It's so exciting to witness the stages of life of plants! This grant would allow us to maintain our 12-bed garden. We want to buy more soil, build another bed and buy more bark mulch to keep down the weeds. This grant will also help us expand the variety of plants to represent the many cultures at our school. We plan to incorporate plants from different countries that would grow well in our climate.

Miguelito School

The goal for the Explore Ecology School Garden at Miguelito School is to become fully self-sustained and to be able to support all the students at the school. The grant would help to build another eight planter beds. All beds need irrigation, garden hoops and bird netting, with an alternate covering for frost protection for winter. With the campus located on the edge of town and near the hills,wildlife unwelcomingly “shares" in the harvest. In addition, there is a little more frost that threatens to damage our winter crops.

San Joaquin Elementary SChool

San Joaquin wants our students to be life-long learners and have an increasing awareness of buying local produce, as well as eco-fiendly gardening. We want our students to be curious and independent. We want our students to be prepared to solve problems in the real world. Teachers and students will be using the Common Core State Standards, as well as the Next Generation Science Standards to implement the teaching of science standards that will be met by the design and care of this planned garden project.

McCardle Elementary School

A school garden at McCardle Elementary will allow students to learn that eating healthy can also be fun. Although a school salad bar would be the ultimate goal, students could initially participate in weekly tasting parties where teachers may share healthy recipes using fresh ingredients from the garden. Supplemental handouts may be sent home with the kids to share the recipes with the family.

Peña Blanca Elementary

Our main goal is to begin a garden at our school. Research has shown that having a garden on campus increases students' academic achievement. Having a garden on campus increases staff, parents, community and student involvement. Once we begin our garden our goal is to grow and harvest edible plants and vegetables. This will help students appreciate the process of growing their own crops.

Cordova High School

Our goal is to purchase a greenhouse for our students. The students will grow seedlings in the greenhouse and transplant them to the garden beds at school as well as take them home to grow in their own family gardens. The students will gain a firsthand experience with the "Farm to Fork" message because they will have an opportunity to grow seedlings, transplant and then harvest their own crops. We will be incorporating the value of eating nutritious meals into our everyday lives.

Springfield Middle School

This grant will afford Springfield Middle School (SMS) the opportunity to provide nutritional foods, business skills, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) lab resources, an enriched environment for counseling, and a mentorship program with Springfield High School to our scholars.

George Washington Elementary

At George Washington Elementary, we are inspiring a community of healthy leaders and learners. The community gardens will allow our students in grades kindergarten through fifth to take on leadership responsibilities for the care and maintenance of the gardens. We will incorporate these tasks into our already existing Positive Behavior Intervention System. The upkeep may also instill in our students a sense of excitement for nature and healthier eating as they will have a stake in the food grown.

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