Garden Classrooms

Wilson Middle School

We hope to create an outdoor classroom where students can engage in the planning, growing, maintaining and harvesting of a school garden. This will be a wonderful learning experience for students, creating a healthy and prosperous garden with a variety of plants that will be used to generate service learning projects for students. Moving forward, as we recruit parent volunteers our intention is a holistic one that will engage the entire family. Our goal is to also encourage healthy eating habits as well as help sustain the garden through a growers market.

Oakdale Elementary School

The overall goal of our garden is to give students an opportunity to interact with nature while learning our district outcomes. The garden has facilitated various lessons in new and exciting ways. Oakdale's school community has also become more engaged in school events through the use of the garden and other outdoor classroom events.

This grant will assist the garden in the following ways:

- increasing accessibility of planting to all students through ADA-facilitative, raised pots

- spring planting

- summer upkeep

- fall planting and harvesting

Daniel Webster Elementary School

The garden at Webster Elementary will provide students and families with a place to educate and spark interest in healthy living. In addition to nutrition and healthy living choices students will use the garden to expand on school day learning in math and science. The garden also allows for lessons in responsibility, leadership, environmental education, and team building. Camp Fire and the Webster campus have been chosen by the American Heart Association (AHA) to start a Teaching Garden program. The AHA will be providing the start up supplies for the garden and plants for two years.

Milwaukee Environmental Sciences of Milwaukee Teacher Education Center

Milwaukee Environmental Sciences (MES) is focused on food, fitness, and environmental sustainability. The goals of our Food, Farm and Fitness (F_) program include: improving child health, enhancing academics with hands-on learning, and becoming a hub for family and community wellness. The MES salad bar garden will allow us to grow select items for the salad bar and incorporate them into lessons. This will influence the diet of our students, as it has been shown that salad bars in school lunchrooms increase students' fruit and vegetable consumption by 1.2 servings per day.

Dunnellon Middle School

The goal of our school garden is threefold; to establish a garden space that can be used for teaching in multiple disciplines, teach our students how to budget and construct an aquaponics system that they can set up in a limited space, and finally, the benefits of home gardening for a healthier lifestyle.

Charles R. Hadley Elementary

Our main goal for our school garden is to provide children and their parents with a hands on experience that they will apply daily and for the rest of their lives. The majority have never touched soil before and have never been responsible for growing something of their own from seed to harvest. Occupied with the challenges of family life they don't often consider their food sources and choices and how they affect their family's health.

Rock View Elementary School

Our goal is to transform the school courtyard into a space for playing, learning, gardening, and teaching environmental education and nutrition. The redesigned courtyard will include a pre-kindergarten play space, an outdoor classroom with seating, a shallow pond as well as various habitat gardens to attract butterflies and birds, and raised garden beds for growing vegetables and herbs. Compost bins and rain barrels make the design environmentally sustainable. The raised planting beds can be used by the different grades to fulfill curriculum requirements, such as math

Roseland Elementary Montessori

Using nature as a teacher - The students will learn to appreciate the wonder and power of nature which is the core of an environmental education. The school garden will give students and understanding of their own place in the cycle of nature.

Using the garden to learn responsibility and teamwork - The fundamental rule of farming is that it takes responsibility and teamwork. Students working together on the garden can build self esteem and watching their garden grow is a sign of their success.

Franklin Elementary

Recognizing that 75% of our students are on free or reduced lunch program, our goal is to grow food in our school garden that low income families in our community can use. Students will learn how to grow food and be encouraged to start gardens at home.

Another goal is to teach seed-saving techniques that will produce pure seed for sustainability of our school garden as well as for student gardens at home.

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