Help me give my students the best tools available to understand building a composting area in our garden, and these visual tools will better help them learn, be able to see first hand how the process works.
$724 goal
This project expired on April 5, 2019.
This project expired on April 5, 2019.
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 school is fortunate to have students from all walks of life. 73.6% of our students are on the free or reduced lunch program. Our school site is located in a lower-socio-economical neighborhood and we are working hard to build up community ties with families, businesses, and community social groups.
Our students learn through, hands-on, project based lessons, across the curriculum.
We are fortunate to have an administration who supports, new forward thinking teaching strategies and learning modalities.
26% of our students have some sort of identified learning disability or emotional issues in their lives, which effects their learning ability in our classrooms. Learning outside, actually planting seeds. pulling weeds, and harvesting food that they can take home is successful teaching and productive learning, no matter how you look at it.
My Project
Our school garden is our outdoor classroom. Each classroom has an assigned time to work in their raised garden box, where they grow, flowers, veggies and herbs. Along with growing things we are learning about composting and recycling. Our goal is to recycle at least 10% of our cafeteria food waste, and eventually grow to at least 50%.
Our goal is to place a viewing box in each classroom, so the students will be able to view and decomposition process up close and personal on a daily basis, to better understand how they are helping make better soil for their gardens.
Each classroom teacher will do follow up lessons, and extensions to lessons that will be or have been taught in the garden and in the composting area. By having the viewing boxes in the classroom, each student has a better chance of seeing the process more regularly and gain a better understanding.
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