Garden Classrooms

Littleton Academy

Our goal is to complement the students' class room education with hands-on experience in earth and biological sciences. Expanding our existing garden by adding a hobby greenhouse would enhance the learning experience of students at all grade levels. Raising edible plants will encourage the student community to make healthy choices, learn how food reaches the dinner plate, and encourage fundraising, and philanthropy.

Madison High School

Students in the culinary arts program will plant, tend and cultivate the school garden to learn about nutrition and farm-to-table growing. The students will learn how to prepare and serve the food by operating an outdoor cafe where they will offer freshly grown and prepared foods, supporting the farm-to-table concept and the fight against obesity. Students will learn about seasonal planting, the growing cycle, soil care and maintenance, pest control and chemicals, composting, and how to properly cook and serve the produce they grow.

Roosevelt elementary

Our goal is to create an outdoor classroomthat will function as an extension of our indoor classrooms. We believe that the Growing Classroom will provide a natural and engaging setting for students to apply the concepts they learn in the classroom. We also believe that this garden will be a source of pride for the school and allow our students and families to contribute to the success of the garden. Lastly, we are trying to promote healthy living in our low income households were variety and good nutrition are often missing.

Hampden Academy

Our proposal for our project is to continue growing our community garden for our school, students, and their families. This has proved to be successful and a great learning experience the past few years, and has been therapeutic for individual and family therapy, and group therapy. With this garden we use it as a tool to help educate on health, nutrition, and care, team building, and developing a therapeutic coping tool.

Point Defiance Elementary School

The goal of our garden is to make it possible for our students, staff and community to actively learn from growing sustainable organic foods in order to give back to others in our own community by making donations to local food banks.

Lincoln

Our goal for the year from our core team is to create a district wide sustainability program. For years we have been doing individual projects, gardens, energy audits, etc... This year we have been provided funding to have a core team, and teams at each of our 17 buildings, to grow our vision of sustainability. The garden we create at Lincoln this year will be part of our eventual vision to have gardens at each school. Our main high school has an established garden and greenhouses. We plan to work together to eventually have students work farmer's markets selling their food.

Benjamin Fairless Elementary

The goal of our garden is to help facilitate levels of learning for the students that are involved and help them to understand that something as simple as a garden can impact the people around them in different ways. Level one- awareness of self and the impact you can have on things around you. Level 2- understanding how the garden can have a positive affect on the people around us and our school. Level 3- using our knowledge and the garden's product to contribute to our neighborhood.

Kerr Elementary

The goal of the Kerr Garden is to cultivate, through a community effort, a thriving garden where students can learn about plants, food and nature through hands on experiences, and can see, touch, smell and taste the results of their efforts. The Kerr Garden also strives to provide teachers with an outdoor classroom where they can teach science, math, art, history and cultural lessons in a garden environment.

All Saints Catholic Academy

The goals of the ASCA Garden have been to foster a sense of ownership and responsibility in the students through hands on care for their garden, and to beautify our urban space. We strive to make this activity an asset in the classroom as well. For example, the 6th grade science lesson was able to see all the stages of growth of the pepper plant as well as enjoy pesto sauce in the classroom made from the basil they grew. We hope to provide vegetables to the local food pantry next year, and would like to explore participation in a farmers market.

Littlebrook Elementary School

Our goal is to fund a garden instructor to not only educate the simple aspects of gardening to all our 341 students, but to also work closely with the school teachers to tie this garden knowledge into the school curriculum, providing a holistic education. Student learning is multifunctional ̢

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