Garden Classrooms

Birmingham Covington School

Our school has decided to create a Global Garden focusing on plants from around the world..Our goals are to: 1. Create an outdoor classroom to explore interdisciplinary themes and to learn about and investigate the world around us. 2. To promote service learning projects that can impact the entire community and to promote environmental awareness..Based on some projects classrooms have planned the community will become aware of several local environmental issues and receive food donations.

Big Spring Lake Kindergarten School

Our main garden goal is for our children to learn how plants develop while understanding that it takes a lot of work to get the food we eat. We would like for our students to be able to see the foods that are served in the lunchroom and be able to relate to where it came from how it grew and know that fresh fruits and vegetables are not only healthy but also delicious. Our hope for the community is that our young students will encourage their families to eat more nutritious foods at home.

Beverly Vista Elementary School

The sense of ownership of the garden combined with activity based lessons on nutrition will motivate children from an early age to live healthy lifestyles and motivate their parents to provide healthy options for snacks . Parents will be encouraged to modify their eating habits to serve as positive role models. The project will show the value of healthful nutritional habits.

Bethany Baptist Church

Our garden goal is to grow and expand our current community garden. This grant will allow us to have a successful garden to pay for water seeds and transplants and to pay for training for young people to participate in the garden.

Bessemer Elementary School

If awarded this grant there are several areas where the money will be used. We will be able to maintain the raised beds we already have add more beds for the teachers who have newly joined our team and purchase seeds/plants fertilizer curriculum books a shed tools for children and adults and a mobile cooking cart that will allow teachers to extend lessons from the garden into cooking lessons. We will also work towards increasing our parent and community involvement.

Bessemer City Central Elementary School

This grant money will help to strengthen the current gardening program a great deal. It will enhance the experience for the students involved and greatly expand educational opportunities related to the garden both for the students enrolled in the gardening program and for the school at large. The projects that will be undertaken with the grant money will also reach volunteers and parents strengthening the school community and the sustainability of the school garden program.

Beryl Heights Elementary School

Beryl Heights has a garden consisting of seven small garden beds. Unfortunately years ago the garden was placed behind a temporary classroom which shades the entire garden throughout the whole school year. This makes it extremely difficult for any vegetables to grow! Although there has been great interest in keeping our garden this interest is waning due to the frustrations of doing everything correctly but to no avail due to the lack of sunshine on the existing garden beds!

Benvenue Elementary School

Create raised beds part of an outdoor classroom featuring a sensory garden and a cool weather vegetable garden. Sensory garden: lamb's ear lemon balm mint rosemary oregano dill fennel lavender and sage. Vegetable garden: lettuces spinach potatoes onions. The science curriculum can be connected to soil/plants at almost every grade level from kindergarten through fifth. Sensory experience with plants will enhance observational skills.

Pages