Ocean Springs Upper Elementary

Our goal is to expand our current gardens to accomodate the larger school population and especially provide easier access to garden spaces and add tall planters for our special needs students. The gardens provide a collaborative effort between the community and school body to enable the success of the gardens. The gardening process lends itself to planning, organization, and leadership skills bringing a relevancy to our curriculum. The creation of our gardens has been a perfect segue to immerse ourselves into the nine Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences. Nature and Existential abilities were the primary intelligences we realized would be affected, but it has expanded to encompass ALL nine intelligences on a daily basis.