Campbell School District Garden-based Instruction
Living Classroom
About the Project
The Open Space Authority helped fund Living Classroom’s Garden-Based Instruction in the Campbell School District. Living Classroom's environmental education program focuses on three key areas: environmental literacy, connection to healthy food and science learning that is relevant and real to the lives of students. Living Classroom provides a full-service program to schools, including lesson instruction and materials, garden installation and maintenance and recruitment and training of volunteer parents and docents. The Authority-funded portion of this program provided top quality, engaging garden-based learning experiences in the areas of science, nutrition, math and social studies for at least 1,200 K-3 students at five Campbell schools.
"Living Classroom has been a living dream for my kindergarten students. They had hands on experience planning, planting, weeding, and harvesting vegetables. All the lessons were very age-appropriate and engaging, and met the state curriculum standards. This program is incredibly valuable and I feel so fortunate to have had this program at our school!”
