Garden Classrooms

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.

Macedonia Elementary School

The Junior Beta Club of Macedonia Elementary would like to begin a project that will increase their impact on the education and health of fellow students. Through this project we will provide the cafeteria with fresh produce to encourage healthful nutrition. We will also be working with community members parents and students to deepen understanding about nutrition ecosystems and the life cycle of plants. This grant will allow Junior Beta Club members to have a positive impact on the community

M. E. Foster Elementary School

Our goals are to enhance the school curriculum and empower the community in ways that will improve their overall health. We'll integrate garden concepts into the usual curriculum to stimulate learning. Also the community has a number of threats to morbidity and mortality that may be attributed to lifestyle. The garden may reverse these threats by providing a source for fresh foods and creating a health-conscious social network. The garden will also provide a safe option for physical activity.

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