Garden Classrooms

Washington Elementary

Our ultimate goal is to help create an interest in gardening and to help students gain the knowledge to plant and maintain a garden on their own. Another goal is to help to create a healthy future for students and use this as a starting point for healthy lifestyle initiatives that will spread into the community. During the summer months, with student volunteers, we donate the produce to the local food pantry and homeless shelter. This is one way that we can ensure that the benefits of the garden are felt by many members of the community.

Delaware School for the Deaf

Our goal is to teach our children using hand on approach. The school garden are integrated into different subjects (read below) and character education. They learn best through visual and hand on activities. They involved smell, sight, taste and touch.
They learn why it is important to take care of the garden so vegetables can grow bountiful and healthy. It requires attention, and commitment. It teaches children to apply same philiosophy to real life.

GEM Charter School

The children wrote some things they wanted to see in their garden.

Grecia said; "we have a dad who came in today and showed us how to make seed bombs, he comes in every Friday and we were thinking that we could plan flowers, plans, fruit and fruit trees all around the school"

Marcos said; " Gardening is important to the environment, it helps a lot. Furtilizers like Seed Bombs, Chicken Poop Tea (we have chickens at school as well), compost and coffeegrounds help fertilize the garden.

Eliot K-8

Goals of the Eliot garden program are to promote health and wellness and decrease obesity, decrease the academic achievement gap, and build connections between the Eliot school families and neighborhood community. We aim to decrease obesity among Eliot students and staff by increasing fruit and vegetable consumption, increasing awareness of the relationship of fresh, local produce and health, and increasing awareness of sustainable agriculture and local production of food. We aim to decrease the academic achievement gap by incorporating equitable experiential learning into core subjects.

Oskaloosa Middle School

Our goal is to implement a sustainability program within the middle school's consumer sciences program to teach our young people about growing their own foods, how to process the foods, and to incorporate nutrition into their daily lives. We have all heard about the growing rate of childhood obesity and we want to aid in the efforts to put an end to this epidemic. The teacher and volunteers working with this program will be able to become more educated in this area through grant funding and we will be able to share our knowledge in hopes to change the lives of our young students.

Mountain Vista Community School

Our goal for the garden is to use it to increase students' knowledge about where their food comes from, as well as increase their access to fresh, unprocessed food. Student involvement in the garden will also support the district's math and science curriculum and allow students to contribute to the school in a way that will make them feel more invested and connected. We intend to use the harvest to support a school-based farmer's market where families will be able to purchase fresh food at very low prices.

New York School for the Deaf

This program will provide the opportunity for our students to: *Make the connection between a seed to the vegetables grown for consumption and to understand first-hand the concept of Farm-to-Market. *Participate in a hands-on science & nutrition instructional program. *Try vegetables that they have actually grown themselves. *Cook/bake with organic, fresh vegetables that they have grown *Work in the garden as part of their vocational training. *Participate in the greater cause of feeding those members of the community that are in need.

Rocky Hill School

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Kershaw Magnet Elementary School

Our curriculum at Kershaw Magnet an International Baccalaureate World School focuses on having a balance between learning about the subject areas, and learning beyond them. By creating and growing a garden the students of our school will be able to go beyond the traditional learning into hands-on, inquiry based learning. The funds provided by this grant will allow us to purchase the lumber to make the garden boxes, the soil, seeds and supplies.

Learning Prep School

The Learning Prep School Horticulture Program and Greenhouse has been providing the local community with student-grown flowering plants and vegetables since 1980. Throughout this time thousands of students have worked to learn life and work skills and connect to the environment through the process of propagating and caring for plants.

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