Garden Classrooms

Morningside Elementary School

Morningside Elementary's raised beds and a greenhouse make it possible to grow and harvest produce all year. Students usually make salads in order to sample their harvest. If we had a small mobile kitchen students could learn new and healthy ways to cook and eat (or drink) different crops. This learning tool would also give the children an opportunity for weighing measuring following multi-step instructions and working as a team while learning a lifelong skill.

Moore County Schools

This year marks an important transition as Moore County Schools takes full responsibility of its 12 school gardens which were built in collaboration with Communities in Schools FirstSchool Gardens program. The goal of this grant is as a last minute support for a few projects begun during this transitional time: projects include finishing Cobb Oven roof at West End Elementary School and over-hauling composting program at Aberdeen Elementary School.

Monticello Middle School

A goal is to establish community plots in the garden for families without their own land to grow food. We hope for community volunteers to become interested in the garden so that they can teach the students and therefore equip future generations with the knowledge to provide for themselves. Also community members who had a negative experience at school growing up could cultivate new more positive experiences as adults through the garden and help current students feel more excited and engaged.

Montgomery Middle School

Our goal is to expand our garden so that it will be utilized and admired by our entire school community not just students. The current garden is a source of fresh healthy ingredients for meals and snacks and is a platform for nutrition and health education. With expansion it will be a tool teachers can incorporate into science and math lessons a source of healthful food choices that students can share with their families and a peaceful place on campus for all school stakeholders to enjoy.

Monroe Elementary School

For the past two years we have been teaching our students families and fellow teachers about sustainability its importance and the need to grow our own food. We have come to realize how small the Earth is and our need to do what we can to have a positive impact on it. The main way we are teaching sustainability is to show the students and their families how to grow their own food to compost and preserve their own seeds. We want to teach our families to take control of their own lives.

Monroe Clark Middle School

The intention of the garden is to promote healthy eating habits and organic growing practices provide a safe and healthy afterschool space and act as a nexus for intergenerational exchange of agricultural knowledge. Many of our parents come from rich agrarian backgrounds yet currently live in neighborhoods devoid of green space. In this way we hope the garden will be a place of learning for all. We also hope to send home participants with free fresh healthy produce!

Moneta Elementary School

The goal for our garden is to provide each child in second grade with the opportunity to experience growing vegetables and flowers in their own garden space. This will allow them hands on experience with the science standards of observing the effects of weather on plants and observing the life cycles of plants. In addition the students will develop a lifelong love of gardening while producing food for themselves the school cafeteria their families and the community.

Mira Loma High School

Mira Loma serves diverse student population thru International Baccalaureate International Studies and Passport programs. Garden is key to Passport whose at-risk students unique to Mira Loma need added help from teachers as role models advocates academic guides. By building and maintaining garden Passport students will be stakeholders in campus community. Garden will integrate w/biology & environmental science curriculum examining human impact on earth sound nutrition sustainability.

Minot Consolidated School

The goal of the project is to expand and better utilize the existing physical resources at the site. In addition increase implementation and use of the exisitng gardens in a broader curricula base then is currently being explored by staff.

Milton Elementary School

Our garden will provide students and community members with a unique opportunity to learn about and explore healthy life-long eating habits. We will provide students with an outdoor interactive classroom where numerous subjects may be explored including: science math nutrition environmenatal sustainability and history. The garden will supply fresh produce for our food service program and local community services agencies while improving our student's self esteem and sense of community.

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