Garden Classrooms

Three Chopt Elementary School

Implementing a garden project at Three Chopt Elementary School will support three main goals. First, the garden will become a vital component of health, science, and math instruction across the k-5 curriculum. In support of the Health/P.E. program, gardening activities offer immediate lessons on the value of fresh fruits, vegetables, and exercise to a healthy lifestyle. The math and science skills of observing, measuring, hypothesizing, conserving resources, and analyzing data emphasized at all grade levels are readily incorporated into gardening projects and experiments.

James G. Blaine Elementary

Our mission is to create an outdoor learning space that compliments and expands students

Boscawen Elementary School

One goal for the Healthy You Garden Project is for students at Boscawen Elementary School to have hands-on experience with growing and eating foods that are good for their health. We made a good start toward this goal during the 2011-2012 school year. With these additional funds, we will be able ensure better success for our efforts through improvements to our soil, reliable irrigation, and additional means of protecting our seedlings as they germinate and grow.

Bell Elementary/Tulsa Public Schools

Our goal is more involvement with our parents and community members in making a garden to benefit our families and partners. We are on a path of becoming a Community School in our district. We want to engage our volunteers, partners, and retired community members in a project to not only beautify our school, but make it a major focal point. The garden would be an active learning center for our mainstream students as well as our students with disabilities. We would involve stakeholders and parents in creating an environment for learning and using science hands-on.

Washington Elementary School

The goal of our garden project is to continue with the next step on the journey of creating a school garden. Last year we were contacted by a group of Master Gardeners. They wanted to team up with our school and provide education and experience in gardening to a group of students and they were become Junior Master Gardeners. We had a special spot to develop into a school garden. We contacted our local high school shop class and they were able to build us raised planter beds at a very reasonable cost.

Baldwin School

The goals of The Baldwin School Garden Project are to create, support, and sustain our school garden so that students can connect with nature in engaging, nurturing and inspirational ways and to make plant based learning and whole food a part of the education of all our students. As well as to foster cooperative spirit among schools, families and the surrounding community through involvement with the school garden. And finally, to create a vibrant, sharing network of educators and partners committed to putting the school gardens at the heart of our shared community.

Atlanta Preparatory Academy

The APA Edible Schoolyard Committee strives is to promote better eating and "horticultural literacy" for students, staff and faculty of the school. More specifically our objectives are to:

- Educate students about nutrition through the context of food,

- Reinforce school learning objectives & curriculum goals

- Develop a successful, sustainable whole foods nutrition and gardening education programming for APA cafeteria students, parents, and neighbors,

Animas Valley Elementary

The Animas Valley "Learning Garden" is an interdisciplinary, cross-curricular, educational enrichment project. Each year, we spend a great deal of time and effort securing funds to continue this amazing project which teaches our community about sustainable food practices and healthy eating. This grant would provide a lump sum of money, so we can focus our energy on the actual quality and expansion of the garden project which now includes a year-round greenhouse.

Alberni District Secondary School

Our goal for the ADSS School Garden program is to provide students with project-based and environmental education opportunities that integrate the school garden with academic and elective learning outcomes. Our garden will be a place of learning and growing where education is hands-on, observable, and multi-disciplinary.

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