Garden Classrooms

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.

Dancing Moose Montessori School

The grant will fund a garden program for a Montessori school that will taught in a community garden. The school has 12 classrooms;toddlers through the second grade. The garden program will unite the community garden with the Montessori school creating a strong partnership. The program will introduce children to gardening with a hands-on approach in an outdoor classroom. The children will bring home the knowledge they learn in the garden about growing food and healthy eating.

Curtis Bay Elementary/Middle School

With this grant we will put in a perennial fruit bush orchard. These plants will be managed and maintained by the school and community and the fruit will be distributed to local residents who must currently feed their families without the help of a local grocery store. Students will gain valuable hands-on learning experience and will have the chance to mentor with local high school students. Residents will gain access to healthier food and learn more about nutrition.

Cunningham Elementary School

Our goal is to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening and to protect the quality of the environment through the education conservation and involvement in civic responsibilities in our students. 95% of our students live in apartment complexes with no room for gardening. Having a school garden is a simple way to educate kids who believe that tomatoes grow from the ground and cannot differentiate between an orange and an apple tree. This has led to higher scores in science assessments.

Crowley Kindergarten School

Our goal is to establish school gardens where students learn important life skills in multi-discipline areas (science math healthy living and language arts). In addition to gardening skills this project will teach teamwork and good character traits like trustworthiness respect fairness caring responsibility and citizenship. The youth will utilize products from the garden consuming vegetables and in some cases participating in a service-learning project to donate to needy families.

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