All Learn and Serve America projects are required to match federal funds with resources from the community. The National Gardening Association will award Youth Garden Grants to 400 schools, community centers, neighborhood groups, camps, clubs, treatment facilities, and intergenerational groups throughout the United States. Eligible applicants must be a school or organization which plans to garden in 2001 with at least 15 children between the ages of 3 and 18. Selection criteria include need, sustainability, community support, innovation, and educational, environmental, or social programming. All applicants will receive seeds and other materials to support their programs.
Applications are available online in pdf format.
Tom Snyder Productions - Start discussing current events with the Decisions, Decisions format but do it online through the use of discussion boards, online polls, and web links. Riverdeep - Riverdeep.net has become the access site for all of Riverdeep Interactive Learning, Logal science and math Software and soon to be the access site for EDVantage language arts. Riverdeep invites all educators and parents to access and try for 90 days for free. A user name and password will be set up for your exclusive use. Then look no further than NASA's The Space Place web site, providing interesting facts, fun activities and exciting contests for students in grades K-6.