Garden Classrooms

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.

Lyons Creek Middle School

Our hope to construct student plots will allow all science classrooms to teach the value of growing fresh vegetables. Students will be able to make observations and collect data learn the health benefits to eating vegetables and analyze their results to improve on their next harvest. Math classes will be able to use the garden to perform real world math problems. Eco-Club students will be able to grow organic vegetables and construct a compost system educating our LCMS citizens to go Green!

Lummi Nation School

School gardens increase nutrition awareness environmental awareness academic achievement life skills and community building. The grant will allow us to continue to provide trained garden educator staff whose job is to develop and sustain compelling outdoor classrooms interwoven into the learning culture of each partner school and to ensure that school gardens grows in conversation with each other and that curricular resources and policy advocacy work benefit all partner schools.

Luis Munoz-Marin Elementary School

HPC plans to assemble and install an indoor growing lab at Munoz to showcase indoor gardening and seed starting techniques in order to enhance the teachers ability to meet science-based academic standards. Another primary interest of HPC is to provide exposure to the health benefits derived from the garden in both the indoor and outdoor context.

Lt. Eleazer Davis Elementary School

To continue providing fresh food to local pantries and others in need involve more students staff and parents in the garden provide at least 1 item for the school cafeteria and grow abundant healthy and strong vegetables we will use the funds for soil amendments seedlings curriculum labor tools and materials. Access to growing and preparing vegetables brings joy and health measurable and immeasurable to all involved. We have seen this in the 3 years our garden has been growing.

Lowry Montessori Early Learning Center

Mile High Montessori has 6 sites with the opportunity to garden. Some sites have gardens that are not integrated into the program some sites have no garden. Our hope is to provide a gardening experience at each location that allows students to learn about vegetables and gardening to enhance their awareness of healthy food where it comes from and that the students can have a role in providing the food. The grant will offer family involvement as well as education around a gardening theme.

Lower Gwynedd Elementary School

The garden at Lower Gwynedd Elementary one garden within the Wissahickon Garden Program. The program seeks to create a holistic tangible paradigm shift in our learning community towards sustainable "green" living healthy eating and mindful consumption of our food. This vision permeates our entire community from our administration teachers students staff and our community. Through our unified action in this program we seek to educate model and live the concept of "greener learning".

Lower Brule Day School

Diabetes dependence upon commodities and the NAHA truck for food is rampant on the Reservation and is crippling us. It is not uncommon for a "meal" to consist of a power drink or pop and a bag of chips. Our goal is to turn this around and return to eating whole real food. We want to instill a working knowledge of and love/passion for growing one's own food and being integrally involved in that process. The grant would make it possible to continue and have comprehensive cooking classes.

Lowell Elementary School

The goal of the Lowell School garden is to provide an outdoor classroom where our students can learn a variety of topics ranging from nutrition to science, language arts to community service. Our garden provides a safe hands-on learning environment for our students who have had little opportunity to take ownership of anything. We strive to educate children on where food comes from and to give students the tools they need to grow their own garden in the future.

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