Garden Classrooms

Annie Webb Blanton Elementary School

This grant would enable the Blanton Garden to serve as an excellent tool for both educating students and science, nutrition, and other subjects as well exposing children to vegetables and gardening. Many of our students live in multi-family dwellings and have minimal access to garden space.

Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders

ARS has a goal to use a greenhouse as an experiential hands-on tool for students to learn environmental stewardship good nutrition with an emphasis on fresh foods and other science-based lessons. As a campus we have a long-term goal of having a selection of garden-fresh organic vegetables in the school cafeteria. This goal ties in with our mission statement of leading a healthy and well-balanced lifestyle.

Andrew Jackson Elementary School

The Woolly School Garden is a vertical edible garden that can be hung anywhere. We would hang it on an east-facing chain link fence. Using the curriculum lessons provided by the Woolly School Garden Program our goal is to have garden serve as a hands-on outdoor classroom where students can grow fruits and vegetables. Our students will learn about gardening science math and nutrition all at the same time. The lessons provided by Growing Great link to National and California Content Standards.

Andrew H. Wilson Charter School

Our goal with the garden is to engage student's in interdisciplinary learning by teaching life cycles in conjunction with the state of Louisiana's Grade Level Expectations. Other goals include growing seasonal fruits and vegetables so that children can learn where their food comes from and what products are locally grown. The garden will also serve as a nurturing environment to members of our school and community dealing with speech physical and mental ailments.

Andover Middle School

Teach students sustainability and growth of Agriculture in Florida.Implement salad bar have a farmer's market.To encourage increased consumption of fruits and vegetables in school conduct Taste tests. To promote Healthier school meals. Teach students how to make healthier meals with produce from the school garden.

Kansas Avenue Learning Garden

Bend a city of over 80 000 has only one school garden and a couple community gardens--currently filled to capacity--accessible to children. Our garden will help fill this gap by serving 400 students each year. Connecting kids with the food they grow and eat will improve their health and provide a practical framework for teaching and learning about sustainability. The garden will also reach adults with periodic educational programs and by increasing capacity for community garden plots.

Alvarado Elementary School

Our goals are to:.Educate students about healthy food choices sustainable food production and effective resource re-use and recycling;.Educate students about health threats from environmental pollution and how they can create healthy communities at school and at home;.Educate students about environmental topics such as pesticides insecticides water use and conservation and water quality protection;.Enhance our science curriculum;.Improve student test scores and student engagement.

Alternative School - Indian Oasis Baboquivari Unified School District

The Alternative School in Indian Oasis Baboquivari Unified School district is where students are sent instead of expelling them so Project Oidag members TOCA and our Food Corps members weren't sure what to expect at first. It turns out that these are the sweetest students you could find and they have really responded enthusiastically to our weekly activities. So the garden is more than a garden for these kids. It's an oasis an affirmation and a place to succeed.

Alta Vista High School

While we're elated to have our own campus space is limited and we haven't been able to create a garden. By partnering with the neighboring preschool we can build a shared garden in a plot between the two campuses. Students in our program will experience the joy and fascination of growing and harvesting their own food most for the first time. Moreover students from the shop class at Mountain View High School will help build the raised beds bridging our communities in an exciting way.

Alice Birney Elementary School

International Baccalaureate (IB) programs offer an ideal frame for school garden programs. Through learning organic gardening this midcity San Diego cluster of IB schools (Birney Einstein & Jefferson) will share resources in a 9 mo. pilot project with monthly gardening and tastings of selected harvests of the months. Students will help create harvest cards featuring the produce with a local chef's recipe. Produce will be harvested at the schools supplemented by local produce for tastings

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