GreenWorks! Grant Awardees - Chandler and Gilbert, Arizona

Basha High School (Chandler, AZ):
This project will involve ninth grade environmental science students in development of a xeriscape garden, to be called the Basha Bears Community Garden. The students will bring children from the day care facility on campus to the garden and serve as their mentors. The garden is scheduled to open with an Earth Day celebration in late April.

Higley Unified School District (Gilbert, AZ): 
Higley Unified School District will create a GreenTeam—a small group of fourth through sixth graders. After training at the Gilbert Riparian Institute, the GreenTeam members will make presentations and help organize their classmates to undertake environmental improvement projects, with assistance from students at Arizona State University’s Polytechnic campus.

Playa del Ray Elementary School (Gilbert, AZ):
Students will create a butterfly garden on land adjacent to the school. Students in K through 6 will plan and develop the garden to incorporate lessons from science, social studies, and language arts.

St. John Bosco (Phoenix, AZ):
This project will expand its three-year-old Curriculum Garden. The grant will allow the Conserve and Preserve Club to build a trail, erect interpretative signs, and improve 10 garden beds planted to correspond to each grade’s science curriculum.

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