Garden Classrooms

A+ Children's Academy Community School

A+ Children's Academy Community School is located on the South Side of Columbus, Ohio in a urban community. The majority of our students do not have access to fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Approximately 90% of our students are free and reduced lunch status. The A+ Children’s Academy vision is for all students to achieve their full potential academically and socially as a result of a strong emotional and instructional support system. Our mission is to cultivate a passion for learning that addresses students’ social, emotional, academic, and cognitive needs.

Summit Academy Akron Elementary

The main goal of the student garden is to provide the students with healthy food choices that are not available to them due to 100% of the school student population qualifying for the free lunch program. This grant would guarantee that the students will have healthy food to eat during the summer when they are at home as well as into the fall. All students in the K-6 building will have the opportunity to learn about healthy eating habits as well as learning about how to care for and grow a garden.

Nicaea Academy of Cape Coral

Our goal is to teach the children at our school and their families that food doesn't have to come from a grocery store. What struck me the strongest was when I was speaking to a student that I had a tomato from my home garden for part of my lunch, that halted me and asked if I was sure it was safe to eat. I said of course, why wouldn't it be? Their response was that I hadn't purchased it at Walmart. Their is a systematic mindset that we are dependent on processed foods. We are dependent on chain supermarkets. This couldn't be farther from the truth.

Pleasant View Elementary

SUAC aims to build the relationship between our community and the food we eat. The DIRT (Dig In R-Twelve) gardens provide K-12 school children with educational opportunities that promote healthy lifestyles and environments through hands-on learning about production and consumption of locally grown food. The DIRT project addresses multiple needs within the community through education and outreach by creating and sustaining school-yard gardens in the R-12 district.

Beverly Woods Elementary

At Beverly Woods Elementary, we are passionate about teaching the whole child. The goal of our garden is to improve the overall health and wellness of children through:
• Education about nutritious food sources (not just from the grocery store!),
• Hands-on learning outside while growing healthy food,
• Literally tasting the fruits (and vegetables) of their work.

Leake Central Elementary

This Garden Project is a long-term educational program for our students and our community, to be initiated in Winter/Spring 2015. The 100+ Elementary School students of the Carthage / Leake County Boys & Girls Club will help build, plant, maintain, harvest and replant this garden through the seasons, guided by 20-25 of their High School aged peers in our Future Farmers of America and 4H programs, and 10-20 community volunteers in our local Master Gardeners program.

NYC iSchool

Students at the NYC iSchool participate in project-based courses called modules where they are expected to tackle real world issues in their community. Our module is called Food Revolution and its goal is to teach students how our country’s food system is contributing to the growing obesity epidemic in the United States. For example, we spend the first few weeks of the course discussing how the 2014 Farm Bill has added to the obesity epidemic by subsidizing the main ingredients in processed food and by cutting $8 billion dollars from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Bertram Elementary

The gardening program at Bertram Elementary is led by students attending the After-school Centers for Education (ACE) program, which is funded by a grant from the Texas Education Association (TEA). The ACE grant is a five year grant which was implemented last year. The program, in its first year, won awards for the quality of leadership and the local programs being provided. At the end of the five year period, the grant may be renewed.

ellis school

This year we hope to cultivate a irrigated new plot that is approximately 1000 square feet. Our existing program has for the past few year,s been almost entirely self sustaining in that we have spring plant sales which provide the income for soil and seed money. This new garden plot, with irrigation and weed barrier, will grow during the summer while students are absent. The crops will focus on winter storage food to be used in the cafeteria and help the Thanksgiving community food drive....crops will include potatoes, winter squash, sweet potatoes, etc.....

Parkside Community School

“Children indeed love flowers, but they need to do something more than remain among them and contemplate their colored blossoms. They find their greatest pleasure in acting, in knowing, in exploring, even apart from the attraction of external beauty.” Dr. Maria Montessori

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