Garden Classrooms

Tustin Memorial Academy's K-5 Farm and Garden

 TMA's farm and garden programs serve 700 elementary school aged children.  Math and science skills taught in class are enhanced in the garden through problem based, exploratory, hands-on learning.  TMA's math and science CST scores have improved every year since children began participating in garden programs in 2008.  

Each school year our chlidren get to participates in a minimum of three garden based programs; they visit the garden 1-2 hours per month and beg for more.  

Forest Grove Elementary Garden Program

 Sprouting Chefs Visionary and Founder Barb McMahon strives to connect children and the community to nature by providing cooking and gardening programs including the ever popular, After School Garden Club. It is one thing to build a school garden, it is another feat to create a sustainable thriving program that truly connects and engages the students and community members.

A Sprouting Chefs School Garden Program ideally includes:

Beit HaYeladim Preschool

Beit HaYeladim is a preschool serving children 18 months to 6 years of age.  Our garden grows food that the children love to eat straight out of the ground as well as harvest and cook together.  We also have a flourishing butterfly garden that attracts many monarch butterflies daily.

Jen School Garden

Opened on Maryville's Des Plaines, IL campus in August 2007, the Jen School is a special education day school for male students, grades 7-12, with intellectual, emotional, behavioral, and learning disabilities. Jen School serves students from Maryville's residential programs and day students from local communities.

Wilson Focus School Gardens

Through a grant from Whole Foods we have been able to construct five raised gardens ,add two greenhouses, install an out door science lab, and construct composting sites. Our school is an 11 month school with an extended school day providing our students with aprox.60 different choices for enrichment classes. Our garden club is a huge success .

Summer Language Camp: "The World Table"

 Atlanta International School's popular Language Camps in French, German, Spanish, Mandarin, and ESL help campers develop their second language skills at all skill levels. Campers participate in immersion classes and activities such as theater and music delivered in their language of choice. Additionally sports, technology, and yoga activities are offered every week for a well-rounded camp experience.

Our three-week curriculum addresses all aspects of language: listening, speaking, writing, vocabulary, and most importantly, a lifelong interest in other cultures.

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program: Mclaren Vale Primary School

To introduce pleasurable food education into as many Australian schools as possible.

The program emphasises the flavours as well as the health benefits of fresh seasonal food.

Produce that is grown in our gardens is harvested for kitchen classes.

 

Liberty School Garden

The Liberty School Garden is a growing garden classroom program established in 2012 by the Liberty PTA. We are starting small but have big goals! In the Spring, the 5th grade plants "Seed-to-Salad" and the Kindergarteners plant pole bean and snap pea teepees. After the Spring harvest, we get the remaining grades involved by planting the "Three Sisters" and other Fall veggies such as a pumpkin patch. Our program at the moment is small but we hope that with fundraising and more volunteers, with each school year our edible schoolyard will grow and grow!

Cleveland Botanical Garden

Cleveland Botanical Garden was founded in 1930. Our flagship program, Green Corps, began in 1996. Green Corps’ mission is to build life, work and leadership skills by employing and educating high school youth (ages 14 to 18) through the practice of sustainable agriculture, place-based learning and community engagement. Each year, Green Corps employs and educates an average of 70 to 75 teenagers that live within the city to work at one of six urban learning farms. 

Paramount School of Excellence STEAM Program

Paramount School of Excellence incorporates its edible schoolyard into the K-8 curriculum. Every class has a garden plot to maintain. As a school, this process helps children discovery a vast array of curricular connections through gardening.

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