Cradleboard Elementary School

Our STREAM (Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Arts, & Math) Garden has a goal to introduce students to healthy eating choices. Students work closely with the Food Corps Teacher to select seeds to plant, start them indoors, & transplant them in Spring. Students built the garden last year as part of an engineering project. Since then, students have continued to maintain the garden and track growth in Math classes. Students sit on benches in the garden and write about their observations in their Science journals. In Autumn (& late summer), the students begin to harvest their produce. This year, our students have harvested zucchini to make zucchini bread in class, zucchini to enter into the county fair, & other edible produce (radishes, strawberries, peppers, mint, tomatoes, beans, watermelon, corn, carrots, etc.). All our seeds are heirloom seeds & traditional crops to our reservation. We have opened our garden to community members to learn how to grow produce at home.