Zero Waste Programs

Composting principles have always been part of the Grow Some Good curriculum however in the 2019-2020 school year, we kicked off the zero waste program. Food waste from the cafeteria was composted and put back into the garden to create a more fertile growing environment. 

Zero Waste Articles

KAP_3:NF_K-2_4.3

The relationships between healthy soil, healthy food, and healthy peopleTHEME: Nourishment: Feeding Our Mind and Body with What It Needs to Stay Healthy and Flourish STRAND: Food and Nourishment GRADE LEVEL: K-2 Key Concepts Healthy soils grow healthy plants. Healthy...

KAP_4:ND_3-5_2.2

The Food Web: Trophic levels and proportional relationships of producers to consumers, carrying capacity, and population equilibrium Relationship between producers and consumers and effect on habitatTHEME: Nature's Design: Systems, Cycles, Patterns, Relationships, and...

KAP_2:LS_3-5_2.3

Understand and explain photosynthesisTHEME: The Living Soil--The Living Plant: We are all Interconnected and Related STRAND: Science of Living Plants GRADE LEVEL: 3-5 Key Concepts Describe and summarize photosynthesis. Lesson Cover up part of a leaf (or plant part) to...