Garden Classrooms

South Winneshiek Community School District

This grant will help the district expand and beautify the elementary/middle high school gardens. For the elementary school/middle school garden protective fencing and arches will be purchased. For the high school garden another raised bed will be built and high school shop students will build 3-4 benches out of lumber to go around the beds. In addition manure will be bought from a local farmer. Finally produce will be used by food service staff and teachers for student education & eating.

South Valley Academy

Goals for the garden project are to integrate more gardening activities into the school curriculum continue to serve more produce from the garden in the school lunch program and continue to support the summer gardening program.

South Shore Charter Public School

Our school does not have a kitchen so any bought lunches are catered from outside school. This includes our free and reduced lunches. Because food is not cooked on-site there are rarely fresh vegetables with the lunches. Many children also do not have fresh produce in their snacks or lunches from home. We would like to provide students with fresh vegetables with their snacks or lunches. This grant would let us fix up the existing gardens and buy seeds and plants to grow and feed to the kids.

South Pointe High School

100% of the students in the class will increase knowledge and awareness about where the source of their food comes from and the concept of sustainability as measured by pre/post surveys every nine weeks. ..The grant will allow the school to become apart of the community engaging in true service learning. The service learning project presents a unique and enriching learning and personal growth experience for students while strengthening the community by addressing an unmet community need.

South Loop School

The school garden goal is to enhance and enrich the educational lives of our students through this project-based learning. It will offer the opportunity for students to become stewards of the earth experience healthy organic food integrate all learning disciplines and understand natural systems. The grant will help nurture community spirit build relationships as well as connect students school staff families and community around this project.

South Hiram Elementary School

This grant would allow the elementary school to create a large garden area of approximately 527 square feet providing vegetables and flowers with room for each grade to have its own space. Our area of rural Maine has a very short growing season. Designing a garden with raised beds that can be more easily sheltered from early frosts and cold frames would allow students to participate in seed starting and harvests while in school. The garden would also be an integral part of the curriculum.

South Elementary School

South Elementary's goal for this garden project is to bring children of various ages together to work towards a common purpose. Children will benefit from working cooperatively developing a new respect for growing things and learning that a garden can be a source of beauty as well as food. Working in the garden will promote social skills problem solving and an appreciation for healthy living among our school community.

Sope Creek Elementary

The new Children's Learning Garden will have several raised beds a greenhouse outdoor classroom compost area and storage space. Pollinating flowers vegetables herbs and fruits will be planted. The greenhouse will extend the amt of time the teachers will have to teach in the garden and increase the success of each harvest. The garden will enhance the children's education by providing a place for science experiments and for learning math nutrition art and social studies all in one place.

Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County

There are several goals of our garden. The garden has several educational goals. They are to teach sustainability to provide a hands-on experience in teaching on the subjects of nature vegetation and the environment and to create a living classroom that can be adopted for a multitude of subjects including math science and art. As a Jewish school the presence of the garden have given students an ability to witness creation and teach a respect for life and nature.

So. Royalton Elementary/High School

Community collaboration in student gardening & processing is our overall goal plus curricula enhancement & grounds beautification. We will enable students to make healthy choices; from the activities they choose to the foods they eat. Kindergarteners will have edible sensory gardens and second graders with 3-sisters gardens (corn beans squash have symbiotic relationships/Native American origin). This project is a logical sequence linking initiatives with partners to achieve common goals.

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