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The goal of this project is to introduce the students in the modified curriculum classrooms to the benefits of gardening by using Earthboxes. This unique growing system allows students to achieve success because it is a low maintenance growing system designed to be easier than traditional in the ground gardens.

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Watch Us Grow

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School:
Palmetto Elementary 
Subject:
Special Needs Students 
Teacher:
Nancy Rojas 
 
Sheila Snyder, Jen Rader, Donna Payne, TBA 
Students Impacted:
40 
Grade:
K-5 
Date:
July 17, 2017

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

 

Ray Sutton McGehee Foundation - $210.00

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Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 40

Tending to the Earthboxes this year has given the students a special way to show school pride and spirit. Each class was given a choice of what flowers, herbs, or vegetables they wanted to plant and tend to. The students took pride caring for their plants and watching them grow.

The Earthboxes were a perfect tool to provide a hands-on learning experience outside of the classroom. Some of the teachers used the Earthboxes as an outside laboratory to demonstrate the life cycle of plants to go along with their science units. Others tied it into their math and writing unit by allowing the students to measure and chart the growth of bean plants and then write about it.

Beyond academics, the Earthboxes are a means of promoting a healthy lifestyle and making good food choices by allowing the students to sample what they grew. In addition, the students learned and demonstrated important social skills such as cooperation, patience and teamwork.

We are very grateful to Kathy and Bob Buchanan for funding this grant and allowing us to enhance our curriculum and classroom learning culture.

 

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Darma Planting

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Izair Planting

 

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Pretty Flowers.

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Original Grant Overview

Goal

The goal of this project is to introduce the students in the modified curriculum classrooms to the benefits of gardening by using Earthboxes. This unique growing system allows students to achieve success because it is a low maintenance growing system designed to be easier than traditional in the ground gardens.  

 

What will be done with my students

Each class will be given an Earthbox to tend to. The class will decide what they would like to grow as well as be responsible for maintaining their box. Each individual teacher will determine how to integrate the Earhtboxes into their curriculum based on our Unique curriculum learning goals as well as the abilities and needs of their students. All produce grown will be shared among the classes to promote healthy eating habits.  

 

Benefits to my students

A class garden will offer students hands on and multi-sensory learning opportunities in many different subject areas, including science, math, language arts, and good nutrition. Gardening teaches students plant anatomy, where their food comes from, and how to eat healthy. Class gardens in the special needs classroom can help to improve fine and gross motor skills, encourage communication as well as cooperation among the students. Best of all it makes learning fun.

 

 

Budget Narrative

The money will be used to purchase 6 Earthboxes which will be used each year with all 5 modified curriculum classrooms.  

 

Items

# Item Cost
1 6 Earthboxes (35.00 each) $210.00
  Total: $210.00

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