Garden Classrooms

Jonesboro Elementary School

Jonesboro school is a rural limited resource community lead by an energetic team of teachers highly dedicated to the overall well-being of their students. As evidenced by the staff's commitment to professional development in the area's of nutrition and gardening this grant would provide monetary resources to a group that already has the energy and expertise to not only build a vibrant vegetable garden but to utilize it as an outdoor classroom for cross-disciplinary education.

Jonathan Burr Elementary School

One of the garden's main purposes is integrating gardening into the school's curriculum. The science teacher will use the hands-on experiential learning opportunities in her science class and the after-school gardening club for grades1-8. The primary grades will explore the garden and work it into their lessons through various subjects. For Burr's urban students we want our school's garden to deepen the student's connection with nature and inspire environmental stewardship.

Johnston Square Elementary School

The goal of the garden is to develop social skills and the ability to work well with others through the group effort required in maintaining a garden. The Ark's primary focus is to develop these skills in their students who are academically behind others their age. The garden will allow the children to learn about food origins science and ecology. The preschool and older students will share the freshly grown foods. This garden will yield more food than previous gardens.

Johnson Park School

Our goal is to continue to have all the classrooms engage in the life of the garden. Under our current budget we are able to supply all the seeds planting supplies plants and extra food for tastings for the fall and spring season. To improve the garden and our outreach we need to expand our beds update some equipment and enhance the garden environment.

Johnson County Montessori School

The goals of the Montessori school's gardening program are to introduce children to the fresh fruits and vegetables grown in our garden and incorporate this produce into the snacks and meals served at the preschool. We hope to increase the children's nutritional awareness and options for healthy eating. A school gardening program will help us meet a goal of serving fresh local produce at every meal and teach children about where their food comes from.

John William Boich

The purpose and goal is for all teachers to teach food literacy throughout the school. The funding will allow us to purchase materials for raised beds plants seeds and other materials that will help maintain the garden. We also believe in food literacy so funding can help buy resources (education and kids books cookbooks etc.) to give students staff and parents access to healthy viable and sustainable options. Volunteer parents would maintain and take from the garden in the summer.

John O'Connell High School

John Connell High School's newly revitalized school garden will allow students to participate in the Schoolyard to Market Program. They will perform hands-on work in the school garden take field trips to the farmers market and local farms learn from market experts and sell their produce at the San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. They will learn to grow food and will gain a greater appreciation for eating fresh vegetables.

John J. Daly Elementary School

15. Research supports the theory that children succeed in eating healthier food throughout their lives when they have the experience of growing it themselves and this is our primary goal for school gardens. In addition we encourage 100% participation in the garden by urging teachers to use the garden to support other curriculum subjects such as health and fitness. We hope that each child will continue growing vegetables throughout their life motivated by this positive early life experience.

John Hopkins Elementary

This grant will fund the garden expansion including finishing our outdoor classroom purchasing seeds and plants for our native species cactus herb flower and vegetable plots. The grant will also purchase a fence to protect the garden from deer food samples to enhance garden projects and nutrition education goals when the garden is not producing (winter months) and materials to bolster our curriculum.

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