Garden Classrooms

Brazos Elementary

The main goal for this grant is to reinforce the vocabulary and concepts taught in Science, Health, and Social Studies with hands on activities and real life application. Students will learn first hand about how decomposers can break down plant materials into nutrient rich compost. They will also experience and document the life cycles of flowering plants, beneficial insects, and possibly birds. Students will

Jefferson Elementary School

2013-14 is proving to be a year of metamorphoses for Jefferson. The building is undergoing significant construction to expand the school and the garden has been blocked off as a result. Historically, due to federal funding requirements, Jefferson students have never had the same gardening and cooking education that their peers enjoy at surrounding schools. In 2012-13, Jefferson's principal and parents rallied around these two obstacles. First, we obtained funding from Lowe

Lac qui Parle Valley

Our first priority is to educate and inspire our students with the use of our passive solar greenhouse. This student-led project has directly involved over 100 students in the planning and building phases. Once we begin to produce greens our students will be able to enjoy healthy, fresh, organic salads grown in their own backyard. The greenhouse will be used as an ecducation tool to extend the classroom as the students learn real-world applications of the growing process.

St. Leo the Great Catholic School

The garden program seeks to enhance the nutrition and sustainability education components at St. Leo's school. CNGF trained college interns will teach the FOSS method using hands on science techniques and garden props.

Merritt Secondary School

This grant will make it possible for us to construct and fill raised beds, store our tools and materials (currently taking up space in the greenhouse) and provide space for us to work. Our goals are to set up our greenhouse and raised bed gardens for sowing in the spring of 2014; next winter, we plan to have the greenhouse producing cold resistant crops all winter for us. We will use our produce to supply our school cafeteria and one of our local sponsors has told us they will buy all of our excess produce. (Brambles is a bakery and restaurant)

Irondale Middle School

Our goal is to introduce kids to good nutrition and growing a garden for food and beauty. Secondary to that but equal in importance is to help kids learn hands-on science, food science/cooking from your garden, writing about a step-by-step process, and we will also use math skills with our garden. My personal goal for the garden is to give kids an experience of being connected to the earth. Many of our students have never planted a seed and I would like for them to have the opportunity of germaninating a seed.

CHARLESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL

At Charlestown High School, we have an established gardening program that supports healthy living, environmental science, outdoors physical activity, and the culinary arts. Gardening brings together numerous areas of content knowledge and unites different classrooms throughout our school. It

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