Garden Classrooms

Benjamin Stoddert Elementary School

The grant will provide salary support for a school garden coordinator at Stoddert Elementary. This position is critical to ensure that the newly installed garden is meeting its potential as an educational tool for the students and as a valuable gateway for healthy food habits. The PTA is providing some funding for the position but we hope to provide further support with this grant. DC Greens is also requesting a "Special Projects" grant for District-wide professional development.

Benjamin Jepson Magnet School

A WKF grant would leverage the investment of time resources and ingenuity that were expended by the Jepson community in the design and installation of our raised bed garden. We already have the infrastructure in place and have shown great initiative in installing a garden. This grant will be used to support a long-term plan developed primarily by the students for sustaining the garden by strategically using the money to purchase seeds soil and plants to maintain the garden over 3-years.

Benjamin Franklin Magnet School

The Labor of Love Sustainability Curriculum Expansion (LLSCE) will introduce new hands-on education components to the SPROUTS Garden at BFEM such as:.1. Meet demand for SPROUTS by increasing student access hours x 2 per student every week.2. Directly address sustainability issues by introducing summer maintenance and stewardship of SPROUTS from seed to plate.3. Provide for a Farmer's Market deepening the involvement of our surrounding community in SPROUTS and the school.

Benjamin Franklin Elementary School

The primary goal of the partnership between the Master Gardeners and the 4th grade teachers is to establish a hands-on gardening experience for 4th grade students which would help the children: Develop and expand an appreciation for life and living processes Experience the wonder beauty and joy of caring for plants and discovering nature

Benjamin E. Mays High School

Ultimately we would like to see students involved in learning through the completion of their high school years. We would like to provide them with hands-on opportunities to develop gardening landscaping and groundskeeping knowledge paired with job readiness skills and work ethics in order that they may become employed in the field of horticulture. The grant will make possible the creation of garden beds where students parents and volunteers will learn & practice growing healthy foods!!

Benito Juarez Community Academy

The Benito Juarez Community Academy fully realizes that using the environment as an integrated context to learning creates the framework for interdisciplinary collaborative student centered experiential and engaged learning. The goal of the community garden is for it to function as an experiential learning environment for our teachers and students during the school year and as a food production garden for the community.

Belmont Hills Elementary School

Our goal is to create a small vegetable garden and fruit tree orchard (blue berries blackberries raspberries figs and mulberries) for our students to maintain and provide our student population with healthy snacks and side items in the lunchroom. This project will be a great hands on learning experience and it correlates with our science standards.

Belmont Charter School

Our goal is to take the small projects that only allows a limited exposure to our student to the larger school body. We want to fully incorperate gardening into our curriculum. We would like to increase our students access to healthy food and show them the process of moving foods from farm to table. We would use the gardens to provide opportunities for our students to show responsibility and care for growing living things as well as how they themselves can impact a community through gardening

Bellewood School

A primary goal of the garden is to provide meaningful healthy engagement with community residents, something youth rarely experience in residential programs. Gardening is a means to helping volunteers and youth form mentoring relationships. In 2012 we plan to expand the program to include monthly community cooking classes led by volunteers to broaden community engagement. A new garden pavilion will be used as an educational and community gathering space beginning in the spring of 2012.

Bellevue Middle School

BELL Garden exists to cultivate host and promote shared values and health outcomes through experiential learning in order to create lasting connections and positive community impact. The Whole Kids grant supports enhanced classroom curricula for history science home economic art and music; expanded community awareness thru volunteering leading to sustainability. A new 50k s.f. Bellevue Public Library scheduled for 2013 on school property adjacent to the BELL Garden furthers community pride.

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