Garden Classrooms

Birchview School

The Birchview Elementary's greenhouse/garden has a two goals. The first goal would be to help introduce and educate students to where their food comes from and how it is grown. Many children today go to the grocery store and buy their foods with their parents or caregivers, but they never really learn where it is actually coming from.

Thomas Jefferson High School

The goal for this year for the Garden of Youth is to complete the infrastructure of our first garden on school grounds. Prior to last summer, the Garden of Youth program operated on the Hebrew Educational Alliance property adjacent to the school grounds. With the help of the Facilities Management/Sustainability Department, the Garden of Youth broke ground in the summer of 2013 for their first ever garden on school grounds. Last summer's program participants installed four 4 by 16 foot raised concrete beds.

Manual High School

The goal of the garden at Manual High School is to connect our students, especially those in our special needs classrooms, with the food and land that sustains them through environmental stewardship, cultivation of plants, cooking and nutrition demonstrations, and integration of healthy choices into our everyday lives. One of the main ways the Manual garden is able to achieve our goal year after year is through our partnership with the DPS Sustainability Office

Downes (John R.) Elementary

The goals of the Downes garden program (DIG - Downes Involvement Garden) are to connect science learning with other parts of the curriculum including math, reading, writing, health, and physical education. The garden brings real-world, authentic learning to math, science, literacy, and health classes! In addition to academic learning, gardening allows students to develop confidence, patience, cooperative learning skills, and a love for nature.

Kathryn Philbin Stoklosa Middle School

MCG works with the Stoklosa school community to vision, implement, and train volunteers in urban organic food production as a tool for hands on, experiential learning. The Goal of the Build-A-Garden to be located at the Stoklosa School is to: Provide garden education opportunities for students and volunteers in order to promote gardening, fresh food, health and wellness.

Village Elementary School

We have many goals in mind for the Village Elementary School garden. It will be used to help introduce and reinforce lessons across a range of academic subjects. It will foster a dialogue about eating nutritious food and adopting other healthy habits. It will facilitate teamwork among students, parents, staff and community partners. And it will be a teaching tool for the community at large, to encourage our neighbors to reap the benefits of planting their own backyard gardens.

Providence Englewood Charter School

The goal of the garden is twofold. First, we would like to teach the students of Providence Englwood Charter School (PECS) about where their food comes from and secondly, give the children the opportunity to work with their hands and produce something that has a tangible benefit.

Friends' Central School

The goals of this project include having the children learn the value of cooperation and the need for involvement in community activities. We want them to recognize the value of stewardship of the land and the environment around them. We want them to become aware of the benefits of growing and eating organic food. A further goal is to integrate this gardening experience with the Lower School curriculum. Through this experience we would like them to know that our food comes from the earth, and plants and not a manufacturing plant.

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