Garden Classrooms

Roswell North Elementary

The goals for our garden are to expand learning opportunities, increase academic achievement, and help students reach their full potential. We will provide creative outdoor learning environments such as outdoor classrooms and garden areas to support our school's project-based STEAM-focused education.

Phyllis Ruth Miller Elementary School

Phyllis Ruth Miller Elementary School started its “Outdoor Garden Class” three years ago with just two teachers with a vision and two container beds. The garden has since become a symbol of unity for students, teachers, parents and community members. The “Outdoor Garden Class” presently has seven container beds and its once barren surroundings have been replaced with beautiful trees and outdoor seating. Students can tend the garden or sit to observe and learn about the vegetables they’ve studied and planted. We are proud to say that much has been accomplished a short period of time.

Academie Da Vinci

We hope our garden will start a chain reaction in terms of wellness at ADV & in our community. Once parents, staff & students start thinking about health & nutrition, we can build upon that, making changes in our cafeteria as well as in our own kitchens. By adding new elements such as a rain barrel & compost bin, we plan to make our garden more sustainable every year. This opens the door for students to explore environmental stewardship, something vital to the survival of future generations on the Earth.

Blanche H. Daughtrey Elementary School

Our garden is structured to provide space for individual raised-bed gardens for:
-our classroom teachers and their students,
-students' and families who live in Pride Park that are not able to have gardens where they live, and,
-to engage our students in their community, raised beds specifically tended by science students to grow vegetables for elderly residents of low-income.

Buttonball Lane Elementary

The Buttonball Courtyard began its transformation into an outdoor classroom in 2012. A courtyard committee was formed that included the school principal, classroom teacher representatives, parents, school custodian and members of a local gardening group.
We sought space within the school grounds that weren’t already over-scheduled that could be used for hands-on student gardening, outdoor activities and general recreation. The school day has become increasingly structured and there is a real need for interaction with the outdoors as a means of learning and relaxing.

Dingle Elementary

Started 15 years ago, the Dingle garden is an oasis of insects, seedlings, weeds, flowers, vegetables, and children. Yet the reality of food scarcity and poverty has made the garden more than a place of beauty: in the last two years it has evolved into a place of nutrition and agricultural studies for children. Now the garden is a place where children meet weekly to plant seedlings, observe plant growth, and finally, harvest the food they've grown to deliver and serve in the cafeteria. Over time we hope that students will bring all this knowledge of healthy eating back home.

Wilton High School

Some of what is written below is from our course proposal in 2015 for our Farm To Table class...

 

We find ourselves disconnected from our farms and farmers, and from the story of what we eat.   As society started to move to cities and away from farms many local food sources have disappeared.  Food as we know it today is processed in enormous bulk and shipped halfway around the world before finding its way to our pantries.   It seems as if food comes from a shelf  in the supermarket.  One of the biggest trends in the culinary world today is the farm-to-table movement.

Valley Academy of Arts & Sciences

The Lifecycle Team at VAAS works to encourage healthy food and activity choices in the school community and in the community at large. We host community dinners to teach healthy cooking habits and quick recipes as an alternative to fast food, we host events for a "Healthy Kids Day" for kids and teens as Casa Esperanza, a community center in a low-income area of Panorama City, and we are currently putting together plans and community partners to support a mobilized farmers market that will take fresh produce to those who do not have easy access in their neighborhoods.

Olympic High School

We would like to expand lessons in the garden to our entire school. Currently, the life science class and earth science class are currently using the garden. We want to bring our English classes and Art classes into the garden this year. We also have a small school on our campus for teen mothers and we want to integrate their nutrition lessons with the food we grow in the garden.

Grandview Public School

We believe there is a positive impact of authentic outdoor garden on student engagement and social skill development.
A garden at Grandview Public School would help us with many aspects of our curriculum including Healthy Living, Science, Social Studies, Math, Language and Art. Aswell, it would encourage social and emotional development.
This garden would not only provide many learning opportunities to cover the Ontario curriculum but would allow for:
• Differentiating instruction within our learning environments
• Make authentic learning situations

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