Garden Classrooms

Korematsu Elementary School

This grant helps us expand our gardening program to reach the younger Primary classrooms. It will also add a larger area closer to the playground which will make lunchtime & recess garden activities possible. Local school garden programs have also been talking with District Student Nutrition Services about growing vegetables for school lunches where the district would purchase student harvests. The lunchtime/recess space is integral to that plan.

The Academy of International Studies at Rosemont

By receiving the School Garden Grant the Academy of International Studies will have the opportunity to allow the greenhouse on the school property to once again be a valuable and functioning space. The mission statement for our school is to educate each student to be a successful, productive contributor to society by providing powerful teaching and learning opportunities.

Science Leadership Academy

With this grant, students will be involved in projects over a 2 year period. First, the grant will provide seeds and materials like soaker hoses, tools, soil, and gloves to maintain the garden. In addition, several raised bed boxes are decaying and will need to be replaced. Water hoses decay and need to be replaced. Other things we will need include fertilizer and books on how to garden.

Orchard Lake Middle School

Since our most recent data shows that more than a quarter of our school population receive free and reduced lunch, we realize the great need to educate our students in a way we have never been able to educate them before. With an addition of an outdoor garden to our school property, we will be adding a unique classroom experience for our students to learn about growing fruits and vegetables. Most importantly, we plan to provide sustainable life skills that far exceed what we teach them in three years at OLMS.

Frank R. Conwell MS#4

The goal of our rooftop garden project is to continue to create an experiential outdoor learning laboratory with opportunity for investigation and study, to encourage a higher level of student engagement in the learning process, to encourage students to become involved in cooperative community projects, and to foster a deep connection between students and the natural world. These goals continue to enrich the lives of our inner city students by cultivating education in public health, nutrition and the environment. Students gain an understanding of food sources and nutritional value.

sharon elementary

Our goal is to offer the entire school community a venue in which they can engage in activities that beautify their school, support learning, and provide food to our critical needs families and the Friendship Trays program. Create a volunteer network for kids and parents to get involved together to help extend positive food attitudes and choices into the home. The garden will offer students a fun setting in which to practice skills of planning, goal-setting, and patience, life skills that are inextricably linked to gardening.

St. Peter Catholic Secondary school

Our main goal is to continue to expand the size of the garden and work in cooperation with the school's dual credit high skills culinary program. The culinary program is expected to make meals that are used to feed students who access the breakfast program and to make meals for different community agencies including Women shelters, St. Vincent De Paul (homeless and the poor), and others. The grant will help us purchase new materials and items required to continue to support the culinary program and help feed students who require support, community people who need a hot meal.

D.U.E. Season Charter School

With D.U.E. Season Charter School's garden, we seek to engage students in multiple areas that will create a healthy nutrition environment and foster improved student health. We believe that in doing so, this early learning experience in the garden will create positive relationships between healthy food and children. This school garden project will enhance a program that will provide nutrition education and sustainable agricultural practices. Through this outdoor classroom, students will be able to take away a number of important lessons from subjects that they would normally learn indoors.

Buena Vista Horace Mann

The BVHM garden was created in 2011 to accomplish 5 goals:
* Bring learning to life in an outdoor classroom
* Support science in a public schools
* Provide students with direct access to nature in an urban environment
* Foster 21st-century learning that emphasizes environmental sustainability and innovation
* Deliver standards-based, outdoor science education to public school students

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