Garden Classrooms

Lincoln Elementary

The goal for our garden is to create a project that involves the community, teachers, and students in the common purpose of learning the benefits of locally grown produce and the advantages of having greater control over the foods that we consume. Students will engage in designing the garden, raising seedlings each planting season, organizing the planting arrangement, watering and weeding the garden, and practicing organic methods of maintaining the health of the plants.

Tamarack Waldorf School

Tamarack Waldorf School's School Garden goals include:
1. Helping our students create, support and sustain a community garden so they learn to connect with nature in engaging, nurturing and inspirational ways.
2. Strengthening indoor classroom curriculum and lessons through the integration and development of our garden.
3. Increasing our student's fruit and vegetable knowledge, preference and consumption.

Sherard Elementary School

Sherard Elementary School envisions a schoolyard garden that students and faculty show off with pride, not only because of its beauty but because it enables a whole new set of learning experiences for students. The school has the potential to enhance student learning outside of the classroom as much as it does inside. A curriculum-based school garden would serve as a living laboratory and outdoor classroom for subjects across the curriculum right in our own schoolyard.

Umatilla High School

Our primary goals are to teach our cadets about hunger and how to grow food. This project was choosen by the cadets and will be led by cadets. Cadets will learn about hunger from local food bank officials and the instructor. Each class will visit a local food bank to get an idea of how it operates and the importance of donations and volunteers. Cadets will be given a chance to sign up to volunteer. Each class has 8 squads (4 to 8 cadets); each squad will build, plan, and maintain a 4' by 4' square foot garden.

C.T. Sewell

The school garden will serve as an outdoor classroom and living laboratory that will provide unique learning opportunities for students across the curriculum, including: science, math, language arts, environmental studies, health, and nutrition. Interdisciplinary approaches foster the talents and skills of all students while enriching the students' capacities of observation and thinking.

Piney Branch Elementary School

Almost half of the students at our school are low-income and need food assistance. Often food assistance means unhealthy processed food choices. Over the long-term this can lead to a lifetime of overweight and obese children. The changing Core Curriculum in the State of Maryland tries to improve efforts to teach nutrition and wellness in schools but still incentives are lacking. PBES believes we can offer to our students an opportunity to learn how where food comes from, how to grow food, how to harvest food and how to prepare and learn about healthy meal choices.

Paul Public Charter School

Our goal is that our garden serve as a teaching tool for students as well as the larger community. We want 100% of students to visit the garden and contribute to its maintenance through a classroom visit, 100 students to complete an in-depth garden curriculum through the Global Health and Wellness elective, and at least 50 community members to participate in 3 seasonal garden events.

St.Anne's School of Annapolis

We have three basic goals for our edible garden. 1) to offer an experiential learning opportunity for students that will help integrate their classroom studies and research, 2) to help students experience the joy of growing and eating nutritional fruits and vegetables in order to establish lifetime habits of healthy eating, and 3)to help students experience the fulfilling wonder of sharing their produce with people who often do not have enough to eat.

Fedcap School

Our garden has several goals, and integrates well with several parts of our academic and vocational curricula . Our students are all behaviorally challenged, most are poor readers: they learn best by ̢

Overton High School

"Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared." Tupac

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