Garden Classrooms

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

Laupahoehoe Community Public Charter Scho

Laupahoehoe has been home for 130 years to a historic school system that has served the agricultural communities of North Hilo and Hamakua districts of windward Hawaii Island. Laupahoehoe Community Public Charter School (LCPCS) has developed a robust Farm to School program with the goal to connect students to healthy locally sourced foods through the cafeteria food programs, classrooms, and agriculture projects. This year we will expand our farm to school program garden and implement our “environmental food awareness project”.

Sequoia Academics and Arts Charter School

Considering that we currently have a garden but it has not been successful, we realized that we did not have a mission initially. Our mission is to, 1) develop children’s understanding of vegetable production, 2) raise children’s interest in a more varied diet, 3) help children to learn to produce vegetables, 4) produce foods appreciated by our families and students, 5) provide opportunities for our students to consume the vegetables they produce, 6) encourage children to acquire attitudes of cooperation, responsibility, self-esteem, motivation and the value of work.

The New School of Lancaster

New School of Lancaster students are dirt-and-life-loving, curious young people who are eager to plant and savor vegetables and fruits from our school grounds. We are building food-growing and soil-growing spaces that can be used by all the students in our PreK-8 school.

Frank Paul Elementary School

The goal of the garden is to involve children in the study of the butterfly life cycle, the creation of a butterfly garden, and a conceptual understanding the life cycle of butterflies.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell Elementary School

The school garden provides a green space; increases access to healthy, fresh, local food in a low-income neighborhood; provides a healthy activity for children to engage around during recess and lunch break; and has been the focal point for food, garden, and environmental-focused education for the past several years, mainly through a partnership with SPEC in which an experienced garden educator delivers lessons to the classrooms. This grant would allow the continuity of the school garden program.

Wellington Middle School

Educating youth about gardening practices, good nutrition and using gardening to expand on classroom education are important outcomes we hope to see as a part of our garden. Our National Green Ribbon School award has encouraged us even more to integrate our outdoor classroom into current teaching practices to enhance the curriculum. Our garden will also be used to address issues around lack of access to fresh produce for residents living in the community around our school. Wellington, Colorado is a rural, ranching town about 1 ½ hours north of Denver.

Wapahani high school

Five years ago the science department at Wapahani High School in Selma, Indiana, raised money and materials to build a greenhouse. Shortly thereafter, we began offering botany classes. The botany classes partnered with a local engineer who developed an environmentally controlled sustainable integrated agricultural system. As a result, the greenhouse provides one-third of the fresh produce used in the high school salad bar!

Perkins Academy

Perkins garden has been successful over the past four years, having inherited tools from a previous garden and as the recipient of generosity and support of the school community. However our main growing area, an In Ground garden space of about 2,000 square feet, has never been amended. We have been gardening in this area through very wet springs and very hot dry August weather for 3 of the past four years. The soil supported turf grass and is not very loose or conducive to growing strong, productive plants.

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