Cox Enterprises Project Learning Garden Grant Program

The Cox Enterprises Project Learning Garden Grant Program offers schools the opportunity to create outdoor learning laboratories through established gardens. This initiative promotes inquiry-based STEAM education and provides essential resources such as raised garden beds, a mobile cooking cart, and professional development for teachers. By integrating real-world experiences with curriculum goals, students engage actively in their learning. Cox employees may also volunteer to install and maintain gardens, fostering community involvement and healthy eating habits among students.

Background
Captain Planet Foundation’s (CPF) Project Learning Garden Program is replete with opportunities to support inquiry-based, immersive learning experiences in STEAM education for students of all levels and ages. In conjunction with applied principles of project-based learning, gardens provide teachers and students with outdoor laboratories full of natural phenomena to be observed, explored, questioned, and investigated. Gardens provide meaningful anchors where standard learning objectives merge with real-world experiences, making many of the concepts we teach relevant and relatable to students’ lives.
And let’s not forget the yummy stuff! School gardens are a perfect way to develop young palates for a variety of fresh, healthy fruits and vegetables. CPF’s mobile cooking cart, complete with a Vitamix blender and induction burner, provide educators with everything they need to have a harvest and tasting event in the garden or classroom year round.
This partnership brings to life Cox Enterprises’ commitment to empowering people to build a better future for the next generation. Cox employees may volunteer to help install and harvest the gardens at all schools selected under this program, and your school may be selected for a special media day and tasting event!
Cox Enterprises PLG schools will receive:

• Five raised garden beds Fully-equipped Mobile Cooking Cart to prepare garden-fresh recipes
• Access to CPF’s online garden-based lessons, spanning all content areas and grade levels
• Materials and supplies to support project-based lessons and garden-based activities
• Online professional development and training for teachers
• Strategies for summer garden maintenance
• Eligible for a Cox Associate volunteer day for garden installation
• Package Valued at $7,500
• Creating Outdoor Learning Laboratories

Gardens in the schoolyard are effective outdoor learning spaces for students to engage in inquiry-driven, project-based learning across all disciplines. Project Learning Garden™ is a holistic program that provides schools with the essential elements to establish and support their garden-based learning programs.
Project learning garden provides schools with outdoor learning laboratories.
Gardens in the schoolyard are effective outdoor learning spaces for students to engage in inquiry-driven, project-based learning across all disciplines. Project Learning Garden™ is a holistic program that provides schools with the essential elements to establish and support their garden-based learning programs. There are currently nearly 750 Project Learning Garden schools across 46 states, London UK, and British Columbia, CA participating in this program.
Please refer to Official Rules here.