Garden Classrooms

Ecker Hill Middle School

Our goal: Ecker Hill Middle School is planning on developing and maintaining a school garden as an integral part of the school grounds. This opportunity will give students practical experience on what it takes to grow fresh produce during Park City's growing season.
Gardening and plant-based learning allows students hands-on discovery. Gardening can be both stimulating and calming. The school garden environment offers a unique platform to help kids achieve learning goals that are recommended by the National Science Standards and our state and local educational bodies.

Riverfield Country Day School

The goals of this Rainwater system will be in conjuction with obtaining certification and grants as a "Green School" through Project Learning Tree and the Oklahoma Green School Program:
The Green Works project will be assessing needs for water conservation and how the school can produce it's own water source from buildings to be used in areas of the school such as gardens, farm animals, and irragation for practice facilities. This project wil be:
* Linking community action with classroom activities

Byrne Creek Secondary School

The main overarching goal of Byrne Creeks Healthy H.E.A.R.T Garden is to create a multicultural urban garden project that educates community and youth about the nutritional, cultural and environmental aspects of growing and eating food. Our long-term goals include growing in a variety of ways to be financially self-sustaining with a social enterprise that includes a Harvest Box Program, farmers market sales and more.

Allison Park Elementary School

Our goal is to build and maintain a vegetable garden at Allison Park Elementary that will serve multiple roles in our community:
I. The garden will introduce young children and their families to the joy and excitement of growing food.
II. The garden will be a hands-on laboratory for learning about science, the
environment, and nutrition for both children and adults.
III. The garden will serve as an educational model for other Washington County communities.
IV. Ultimately the garden will be a point of pride for our community

Futures Elementary School

Our resources now, only permit us to work with a small percentage of the total school population and so a grant would enable us to broaden the scope of the student involvement. Broadening the scope could not only mean including more students but also expanding the activities around the garden, i.e

Northside Elementary

The three major goals for this garden project are:
1. Develop and meet the needs of the multiple learning styles and intelligences of our students' while giving the opportunity to develop a life-long hobby and increase social skills traits.
2. To increase and strengthen the relationships between our community members, students, and school district.

Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary School

The goal of our garden is to connect children to the Earth and the Earth to the table. Children can be very disconnected between the food they eat and where their food comes from. In grocery stores, they see packaged, processed foods filling aisle after aisle. We want children to develop awareness and appreciation for real, whole foods. A school garden is where that learning can take place. We also want children to develop respect for our planet. Growing our own food can inspire children to realize that our health and quality of life depends on the health of our planet.

St. John the Apostle School

To develop an outdoor learning garden and classroom for all of the students (through 8th grade) at St. John the Apostle School. We would like to educate and raise awareness of our natural resources and the impact they have on the environment.
Goals: Our goal is to make learning more meaningful and more enjoyable as children learn an appreciation of the many components of the world in which they live.
Outdoor education goals include:
- using critical thinking skills
- learning through direct experience
- exploring
- decision making

St. Leo the Great

The goal of our program is to be a model of environmental stewardship by creating a sustainable garden and integrating it into our school and community life. This grant will make it possible for us to:
1) Build a 3-tiered grow light to extend our growing season and save seeds (and money!).
2) Develop a school-wide composting program where students in every grade will learn how to will collect cafeteria waste and turn it into useful nutrients for our plants.
3) Turn our garden into an outdoor classroom with seating and a chalkboard/community bulletin board.

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