Kendyll Romine Water and Life LessonsPosted: December 13By National Geographic Online Dear Educators, Let’s Talk Water Have you and your students experimented with sprouting seeds in the classroom? Set up two growing stations with soil and seed. See what happens when one stations is watered and one is not. From your experiments, you’ll find that water triggers life. … Read more
An Urban Gardener Who Grew Up to Be a PlaneteerPosted: November 19By The New York Times – Patrica R. Olsen Ain Chiké, 34, is an operations manager at the Captain Planet Foundation in Atlanta. Q. What is the Captain Planet Foundation, and what is your role there? A. We help students learn about the world they … Read more
By bryancountynews.comGrant Type: ecoSTEM The first stage of an agricultural research garden on the Richmond Hill Middle School campus is nearing completion and was marked by a ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday night before the Bryan County Schools Board of Education work session. The first stage of the garden will consist of 44 framed, raised beds and container … Read more
Grantee: Appalachian Forest Heritage Area, Inc. – Elkins, West VirginiaProject Title: Watershed awareness through youth snorkeling events on the Monongahela Nati Description: Schools in rural areas lack strong connections with outdoor programs and do not have the necessary equipment or capacities to engage in such activities. In the Central Appalachians, small towns and communities are intertwined … Read more
New York and New Jersey Schools Team up with the Captain Planet Foundation to Inaugurate Project Learning GardensPosted: October 6By Outlook-12 UNION, N.J. — Union Assistant Superintendent of Schools Annie Moses joined representatives from the ShopRite of Union, Dole Packaged Foods and the Captain Planet Foundation at Battle Hill Elementary School today to inaugurate a Project Learning … Read more
What a successful summer! 3 interns and 5 FoodCorps service members In total, they visited 50 different schools 227 separate times Food harvested went to various people and groups Atlanta Community Foodbank Clifton Sanctuary Mission Oxford Commons Cooperative Kids at local summer camps Local community members
2015 -2016 FoodCorps Recap: 5 service members 14 schools 28,818 student activities 339 pounds of produce harvested from school gardens served to students 22 taste tests 528 volunteers What the kids are saying: “I just want to live in the soil!” “This garden made me addicted to kale” “We should spend more time in the … Read more
Dole Packaged Foods joins Key Food and Captain Planet Foundation to celebrate Project Learning Garden at PS 354 The Jermaine L. Green STEM Institute of Queens Elementary SchoolPosted: September 27By PR Newswire QUEENS, N.Y., Sept. 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Today executives from Key Food, Dole Packaged Foods and the Captain Planet Foundation joined Principal Raeven Askew and … Read more
Let it grow: Three schools get gardensPosted: September 16By Bonnie Bolden How’s it growing? Students at three local elementary schools will get the opportunity to get hands-on gardening experience and learn how to use what is grown as part of the Captain Planet Foundation’s Project Learning Garden. On Friday, volunteers from the Brookshire’s on North … Read more
Diggin’ in the DirtPosted: September 2016By Simply Buckhead There’s something about harvesting the crops they plant that tempts kids at Sarah Smith Elementary School (SRS) in Buckhead to taste vegetables, such as radishes, kale, arugula, beets, turnips and mustard greens, they would likely refuse at home. Read Full Article / Page 21