Garden Classrooms

Desert Sands Middle School

We hope that by exposing students to growing flowers and vegetables they can grow their own fresh nutritious food and improve their health. They are inner city students many of which have never planted a seed or watched it grow. These activities will also benefit the environment. We also hope that we can help families in need and provide them with some fresh fruits and vegetables. This garden will also increase the curb appeal of our school and make it a more welcoming place to come.

Desert Marigold School

Our goal is to develop a small garden business that students of the current 6th grade class will managed over the next three years before passing it on to another class. The garden business offers practical learning that integrates science math movement and health and will help fund off-campus learning experiences for this class. Organic fruits and vegetables will be sold to the community and will be shared in feast celebrations as part of the history curriculum.

Denver Green School

The goal DGS garden is to provide a living laboratory for students. It is a place where the DGS hands on brains on pedagogy comes alive. The hands on experiences in the garden then become brains on experiences in the classroom. Students gain an appreciation for nutritious food and what it takes to create it. This grant will support the school garden coordinators efforts to increase student learning in the garden as well as help buy seeds materials and compost for next springs planting.

Del Obispo Elementary School

Our goal is to enhance curricula with informal science-based education about sustainable food nutrition and environmental stewardship. We seek to create a hands-on experience by involving students in planting tending and harvesting and instilling in them a deep understanding of the food they eat and a sincere appreciation of the environment. Our hope is that the garden equips kids with the knowledge to make informed decisions that promote personal and environmental health.

Deer Creek Middle School

Our goal is to create a community garden at our school. The plot of ground we will be using was once the location for a bike rack and is currently covered by asphalt. Our district has agreed to remove the asphalt and create a space for us to have our garden. This grant would allow us to 1) create a garden in a space that has been sitting vacant for years 2) beautify our school grounds and 3) teach students about gardening and nutrition.

De Anza Academy of Technology & the Arts

This grant will kick start a plan that will fuel the dream of a team of people from the school and our greater community. The garden will give all students including our severely learning and physically handicapped students a chance to interact with nature and see how a garden can feed a human's need for exercise time outside self esteem building hobbies etc. It will help our rapidly changing magnet school provide a place where people can come together for a greater purpose to serve.

Daystar Education Association

Our goal with the Salsa Garden project is to provide an opportunity for students & community volunteers living in an urban environment to have an opportunity to personally experience the benefits of gardening--an experience the majority of them do not have at home. We also want to teach the importance of healthy food for a healthy body as well as incorporate math science & economics into an active hands-on learning opportunity. We hope to encourage urban gardeners in our school & community.

Dawson Elementary School

The goal of this garden is to expose as many of our students as possible to planting tending harvesting and eating fresh fruits and vegetables. We strive to increase awareness about healthy food options in order to reduce the rates of childhood obesity and diabetes which plague our community. This grant will allow us to expand the garden project to our entire student population so that we can further our mission.

Dann C. Byck Elementary School

Giving each child the opportunity to learn planting growing cycles and food literacy is the goal of Byck's gardens. Our school features both a Waldorf-Inspired.and a Talent Development program; both ways of learning develop artistic and creative knowledge through gardening. Situated in a low-income neighborhood many Byck students close to 90% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. The gardens provide an academic outlet as well as a basic understanding of how to grow healthy food.

Daniel Beard Special Education School

To enhance the garden's sustainability future goals include providing students with materials and equipment to inspire motivation and learning. Specifically garden tools seeds plants containers soil and compost products and a worm bin are needed to propagate vegetables in our greenhouse and plant raised beds. Educational support materials including books and manipulatives are needed as an essential support for instruction during planting harvesting and food preparation activities.

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