Garden Classrooms

Gams Tech Magnet School

The goal is to create The Healthy Snack Garden. It will provide healthy fruits and vegetables that GAMS students can choose as a healthy alternative. As our school evolves into a K-8 building we will incorporate the Home and Careers classes into the project. Stone Soup would remain as a cornerstone of the garden project. As the garden becomes more infused into the curriculum our plan is to reach out to the community for future materials supplies and volunteers for summer maintenence.

Galindo Elementary School

This year a team of 8 from Galindo with additional community support has assembled and are committed to working with the community of Galindo to create a community garden. Goals for our gardens will be to create pride ownership and responsibility in and for our community and earth empower children and community members in their health to supplement our classroom curriculum and to purposefully use the green space at our school to show children the experience of gardening and nature.

Galileo School of Math & Science

We envision the area surrounding the greenhouse as a vibrant and engaging educational space for our students as well as the community. To that end we hope to expand beyond the greenhouse to include one acre of outdoor production beds areas for student research and dedicated education plots. The addition will significantly enhance production yields for the school cafeteria and class projects while increasing the amount of available space for student projects and community engagement.

Gaithersburg Elementary School

The tabletop gardens and all of our supplies are currently being loaned to us by Green Kids. This grant provide our school with our own tabletop gardens and supplies as well as a dedicated water source in the courtyard from a rain barrel to continue gardening with our students in future years..We would also like to use this project as a way to get parents involved in the school and show the families how to grow their own vegetables on their balconies.

Gadsden Elementary School

The garden is a part of our learning centers for young children who help plant tend and harvest. Produce is used to supplement three meals served to children daily sent home with families and in our monthly "Beautiful Food Project" which teaches parents working with their children how to create healthy inexpensive and accessible meals using fresh fruits and vegetables.

Friends School of Atlanta

The garden grant will allow our school to further it's existing programs and promote cross curricular learning. Our planned development would allow our elementary and middle school students to work together and build community within the school and beyond. We also plan to further develop our programs for soil enrichment water harvesting and composting.

Free Orchards Elementary School

We are excited to begin phase one of our garden. To start with we will need to purchase some basic tools and build two raised garden boxes. In building and celebrating our partnership within our community we hope to provide real-life opportunities for hands-on learning and then integrate our experiences into classroom content areas specifically in literacy writing mathematics science and health education. We also see this garden as a way to bring all of our school stakeholders together.

Free Home Elementary School

Our goal of a school garden is students will learn where foods really come from and all the elements involved in raising a productive crop. Hydroponics can teach students to grow plants in small spaces using no soil. Students can experience real world applications of the math and science skills they learn about in class. THe community of teachers parents teachers and local farmers will have the opportunity to work together to develop responsibility teamwork and environmental stewardship.

Fred T. Korematsu Discovery Academy

The Stonehurst Edible Schoolyard will serve as a living laboratory for school-age children and their parents on the Stonehurst campus. It will feature a food forest planting beds medicinal and culinary herb spirals fruit tree guilds living fences a teaching area and a state-of-the art composting/vermiculture system. This living laboratory will teach children about the science of soil the food cycle and their place in the web of life. The grant will fund plants and irrigation supplies.

Fred Newhart Middle School

The goal of this project is to provide students with an outdoor classroom that will allow all students an opportunity of hands-on and "real life" experiences. The garden will support learning and improve student outcomes in the following areas: math (measuring and graphing) science (soil and plant characteristics and life cycles) language arts (descriptive writing) health (healthy eating) art (landscapes) and home economics (harvesting and cooking with fresh vegetables).

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