Garden Classrooms

Gabe P. Allen Charter School

The students at Gabe P. Allen benefit most from the hands-on learning opportunities and exposure to healthy food and fitness choices offered by the school garden. Through sensory observations and inquiry-driven methods, math, science, and other subjects come alive in the outdoors. As a result, students develop content knowledge and learning strategies for the long-term, helping them achieve far more than just passing scores on standardized tests.

Charles Rice Learning Center

The students at Charles Rice benefit most from the hands-on learning opportunities and exposure to healthy food and fitness choices offered by the school garden. Through sensory observations and inquiry-driven methods, math, science, and other subjects come alive in the outdoors. As a result, students develop content knowledge and learning strategies for the long-term, helping them achieve far more than just passing scores on standardized tests.

Crutcho Public Schools

A grant from Whole Kids Foundation would allow the Food Bank to expand its growing program by partnering with Crutcho Public Schools to establish a community garden. Nearly all of Crutcho

Sewickley Academy

Sewickley Academy is Pittsburgh

St. Anthony School

The goal is to sustain the established gardens and continue to integrate the experiences into the curriculum. Since 2009, gardens have been a project based learning opportunity for the school. There is a large garden in middle school, boxed gardens, worm composting, and an aquaponic garden. There is a student garden club that participates in the Grow Hawaii Garden Initiative where students are challenged to use their school gardens as a catalyst for

EcoSPACES @ Philip's Academy Charter School

OUR MISSION

EcoSPACES is a multidimensional co-curricular program designed to give students the tools to lead healthy and environmentally productive lives in the 21st century.  Utilizing unique learning environments, we seek to inspire students to embrace the highest principles of environmental and nutritional stewardship.  It is our hope that students will make informed decisions for living a life that benefits their bodies and our planet, while understanding the interconnectedness of all living things.

 

Summers-Knoll School

Through the gardening project, we aim to support children's learning about, and investment in, sustainable growing practices, health and nutrition, and social and environmental justice. We also strive to increase consumption of local, sustainably grown, healthy foods. A school garden will allow vast opportunities to learn experientially, collaboratively, and would support our project-based, theme-based curriculum.

Thomas Edison Charter Academy

We will use our garden to teach science, math, social studies & nutrition to grades k-8; feed our student and parent population; and make meaningful contributions to our community through food donations.

We currently lack funds to purchase soil, seeds and other supplies for our current garden. So the garden does not have a great impact on our school curriculum or student population. If we receive this grant, it would enable us to plant and harvest seasonally, enabling students throughout the grade-levels an opportunity to grow, learn from and consume their own food.

Columbian Elementary

We will maintain a large schoolyard garden at Columbian Elementary School in the heart of north Denver and educate students and families about gardening and healthy eating. The garden is maintained by paid high school students from neighboring North High School, who help run an after school and summer program to inspire and teach elementary school students about fresh food, science, and healthy living. Columbian students run a farm stand to provide fresh, affordable food to the community and learn business skills.

Ann Visger K-5 Preparatory Academy

Through the generous support of the Whole Kids Foundation, Wayne Metro will construct a new garden at Ann Visger Academy with the goal of creating a new outdoor learning environment that integrates hands-on gardening activities with school curriculum and community life.

The garden will help Wayne Metro empower students and community residents to:

1) Increase student engagement with fresh fruits and vegetables through hands-on gardening activities;

2) Increase student academic achievement through gardening activities that reinforce school curriculum;

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