My students need need a cart to haul soil and mulch and supports for the young trees. They also need materials to make make educational signs like plastic panels and glue.
$991 goal
This project expired on December 16, 2016.
This project expired on December 16, 2016.
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
Our students are from very diverse backgrounds. We are a majority minority school and 61% of our students are qualified for free or reduced lunch. These characteristics gives our school disadvantages as well as advantages.
Though many of our students struggle financially, they are all enormously caring and creative.
Every year they develop projects to help their peers and their community. Their varied backgrounds give them wide perspectives and ingenious ideas that they have been using to make our school and our community a better place.
My Project
Several of the students from our school’s Green Club chose a project to develop last year that they hope to implement this year. It is called a Food Forest. One of our students visited a college Food Forest. It combined native flora with food crops. It was designed to establish food security, biodiversity and community development. Students learn about labeled plants in the Food Forest and are encouraged to pick and eat food from the forest. My students need need a cart to haul soil and mulch and supports for the young trees. They also need materials to make make educational signs like plastic panels and glue. Our students would like to develop our own Food Forest at School. Over the past year, our Green Club students have researched food gardens and plants that can be grown in this area with little maintenance and easy accessibility to our population. They have chosen to have the focus of our initial garden be fruit trees and bushes.
Our students learn about health in 9th grade PE and Ecology in 9th grade Biology and, because all students take these courses their first year at our school, our Green Club students would like to develop a short power point describing the benefits of eating fresh fruit, how to identify types of fruit, their life cycles and how to pick and eat fruits that may be unfamiliar to them.
This power point can be presented in Biology classes with a visit to the Forest. Students will be encourage to pick fruit whenever they like and take some home. In this way, eventually, all students will learn about healthy eating and will have the ability to use this information to help make their own lives, and those of their families, healthier.
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