Garden Classrooms

The University of Chicago Charter School North Kenwood/Oakland Campus

The revitalization of the NKO garden started with the idea of showing students where their vegetables come from and promoting healthy eating habits. Many of these students do not have equal access to fresh vegetables and urban gardening and we want to foster a love of both through getting them involved in a school garden. This grant will provide money to build additional beds and a small greenhouse and allow us to involve the entire school and the after-school program.

The Sunshine School

The grant will be used to install two raised organic garden beds to provide hands-on learning experiences for children ages 1-5 years old. The gardens will be incorporated in the preschool curriculum to teach children about nutrition environmental awareness and working together as a team. The garden curriculum will also be used to ensure students achieve appropriate developmental benchmarks in science social studies math literacy social skills health and safety and motor skills.

The Shlenker School

Our goal is to establish an early appreciation in students for the connection between healthy eating and a healthy body. The garden will offer an opportunity to integrate numerous secular studies and health curriculum into a co-operative and engaging setting. The grant will make it possible to purchase needed garden tools install water barrels for capturing rain water establish additional raised vegetable gardens and contribute our harvest to our local food pantry.

The School District of Jenkintown

Our school garden: a place where students will learn about biology through observation and discovery. There will be space to grow fruit and vegetables as well as flowers to attract bees. Composters and a rain barrel will demonstrate conservation. The High School Environment teacher will focus on native plants and soil health. Special Education will also participate. We expect that the kids will connect with science and nature in a new and exciting way.

The Renaissance Charter School

Agriculture class is offered to 11th & 12th graders. With the additional developed space we will be able to offer a gardening experience to all of our students. Our goal is to teach sustainable farming. A long term goal would be to have our students participate in the local green market run by Grow NYC. We are also partnering with The Green Agenda a component of the Jackson Hts. Beautification Group to allow for more community involvement through summer volunteers and gardening mentors.

The Parish Childrens School DBA The Parish School

The Parish School exists to rehabilitate children who have language and learning differences. Teachers use a multi-sensory approach designed to help children who have trouble processing information and expressing themselves through language. The Parish School would love to build a sustainable community garden which would serve as an integrated outdoor learning center as well as offer students an opportunity to learn about organic gardening nutrition and health in a sensory integrated fashion.

The Paradise Valley Private School Foundation dba Tesseract School

Our primary goal is to foster student curiosity about gardening. Gardens on the Go is based on having students develop experiments and experiences about gardens that relate directly to what they are learning in the classroom. Each classroom will purchase two garden wagons which will be used as mobile gardens facilitating scientific exploration and assessment as well as produce production. This grant would fund the program and would facilitate learning about gardening in our desert climate.

The Ogden International School of Chicago

We would like to build a vertical hanging garden on the rooftop of our school. The students will grow flowers plants and vegetables to help beautify the school and serve as an outdoor classroom. We will donate all fruits and vegetables we grow to the local food bank.The Woolly School Garden is a hanging vertical garden that is 6'x 18' and consists of fifty breathable felt pockets made from recycled post-consumer plastic bottles.

The Neighborhood School

The garden goal is to boost and augment what we already have--most of what we have is entirely maintained on a voluntary basis with donated plants and vegetables. This grant would help us do more to create a high-quality gardening space for our students and our community.

The Neighborhood Center Inc.

Our primary goal for gardening is the development of healthy children in our community of Camden by teaching them to make better lifestyle choices. Childhood obesity has been declared to be epidemic in the city of Camden; 40% of children and teens in the city are obese or overweight as opposed to the national average of 21%. We plan to achieve our goal through educating families about growing and preparing healthy foods through participation in our gardening program and cooking classes.

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