How Does our Garden of Learning Grow? With Your Help!
My students need rakes, hoes and shovels in order to cultivate the soil in our school garden, a wheelbarrow to bring crops in with and a shelf for our storage shed.
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.
My Students
Give a child a loaf of bread, feed him for a day...Show that child how to grow the ingredients for that bread and feed him for a lifetime! Our school garden enables us to teach healthy eating habits as well.
A typical day in our class would involve lots of science exploration activities and a trip to our school garden.
We have many standards to cover and we learn them in a variety of ways. Students learn best by doing, so we do a lot in our class!
Most of the students at our school are from high poverty families and unfortunately do not have access to fresh produce or other healthy food choices in their homes. Our "Garden of Learning" gives us the means to provide the students with knowledge of plants, how to grow the plants, how to prepare the vegetables and fruit of those plants to eat them as part of their healthy food choices for the day. We grew Brussels Sprouts in the garden and the students didn't know what they were at first, but once they tasted them, they couldn't get enough of them!! Some even told me that they taught their moms how to fix them! That is exactly what we want to have happen with our garden. Having the tools to work the soil will make this possibility a reality!
My Project
My students will use the rakes, hoes, shovels and wheelbarrow to prepare the soil in our school garden and to harvest crops that will expose them to the healthy choices that are available for them to choose daily rather than unhealthy, chemical filled, processed foods that most of them eat at home. We will use the shelf to help organize the supplies in our storage shed.
Having these tools to work the soil in our garden will allow our students to get out and work in our garden as well as learn about growing fruits and vegetables and making healthy eating choices, which will promote a life long healthy eating habit for them.
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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