Garden Classrooms

Mariposa Elementary School of Global Education

This grant will allow for the continued operation and expansion of the Mariposa School Garden. The funds will be used to purchase seeds gardening tools materials for descriptive and educational signage and materials for expansion with additional planters. In order to meaningfully integrate the garden with the school lunch program the size and production of the garden must be significantly expanded. This grant will make that possible.

Mariner Middle School

The goal of our garden is to help educate students on their understanding of the nutritional aesthetic environmental and therapeutic values of horticulture. This grant will continue to allow students to be actively involved in community gardening by giving them the tools they will need on a daily basis to both work and learn about horticulture.

Marie H. Reed Elementary

Marie Reed Elementary - Garden goals.1) Give students a first gardening experience..2) Help them learn first-hand about production of food and nutrition..3) Use the garden as a place for the hands-on learning of math science and other disciplines..4) Create awareness of the disappearing habitat of other species and practical steps to restore a place for them. .5) Bring students and parents schools and communities closer together through a Garden Club.

Mar Vista Elementary School Los Angeles Unified School District

We have two goals with this proposal: 1) expand the Growing Great (growinggreat.org) curriculum to 4th graders; and 2) enhance the supporting gardens. Growing Great is a non-profit garden and nutrition education organization dedicated to inspiring individuals to adopt healthy lifestyles. The curriculum aims to enhance students' lives by improving their science and ecology literacy. Our school gardens are our students' laboratories in which they explore and test what they learn.

Maplewood Richmond Heights High School

On the edge of St. Louis, Missouri, the Maplewood Righmond Heights kitchen garden grows food for the public school district's Seed to Table cafeteria program. High school interns work the garden 8 months of the year, overseen by a staff member. The potager-style kitchen garden features a tool shed with a living roof, a brick outdoor oven, and compost facilities. The growing space is comprised of 4 x14 foot vegetable beds, border beds, and a fruit area. We are looking forward to a great growing season!

Manchester Academic Charter School

With this grant we hope to transform our small garden into a living laboratory supported and appreciated by the whole school. We want to bring more students of all ages to the garden integrate garden projects with classroom learning to help teach science and social studies and use our harvests to learn about healthy eating and cooking. ..We want our students to understand connection between growing harvesting and eating food and appreciate the value of choosing healthy natural food.

Manassas Park Middle School

The goal for the Manassas Park Middle School garden is to become an outdoor living classroom. The garden will be accessible to all students and can be integrated across the curriculum. A grant would allow the school garden to be succesfully implemented in it's first year. Beginning the program properly from the start will ensure success in years that follow.

Malcolm C. Hursey Elementary School

Our Garden Classroom project's first priority is the acceleration of academic achievement in science and math, facilitated through careful collaboration with teachers and our use of dynamic garden-based lessons and experiments to stimulate critical thinking. Our other goals include: Nutritional Improvement Understanding of the Natural World and Gains in Foundational Knowledge and Language Skills.

Madison High School

Our goal for this grant is to continue to improve our site's capacity to teach our students the skills necessary to grow organic produce in a sustainable way by improving our greenhouse space. Currently we are finishing the construction of our greenhouse which was generously funded by an NEA grant but we lack the necessary benches and electricity to use the greenhouse to its full potential. This grant will provide the necessary materials to finish the greenhouse and begin use this spring.

Mackintosh Academy

The Mackintosh Academy community's garden goal is to offer children a dynamic learning platform that encourages mastery of educational standards while inspiring students to make cross-disciplinary connections across all aspects of the International Baccalaureate curriculum. The school garden will provide an experiential learning tool to engage students intellectually socially and emotionally while supporting a variety of learning styles and abilities.

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