School Ground Greening
Toyota Evergreen Learning Grounds
Transforming the Outdoor Landscape of Canada's Schools
Toyota Evergreen Learning Grounds helps schools and their communities create outdoor classrooms, providing students with a healthy place to play, learn and develop a genuine respect for nature.
Register now for All Hands in the Dirt: A Forum on the Design and Programming of Children's Outdoor Spaces. November 12–13 at Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto.
How we can help:
- Contact one of our consultants for help in your area.
- Check out our workshop series in Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax, Durham, and Kitchener/Waterloo.
- Send us your questions and we'll answer them promptly by email.
- Receive funding for your project, available to Canadian public schools and not-for-profit daycares.
- Apply early: $500–$3,500 for schools; $500–$2,000 for daycares.
- Applications are accepted starting in September of each year. The 2010–2011 application is now available. Find out more about next year’s intake.
- Explore our resources and newsletters to help green your school ground.
- Browse the Native Plant Database for information about plants that work best in your ecozone.
- Learn about school food gardens and check out the Bean Keepers Project.
- Creating lasting, large scale greening improvements on Canadian school grounds.
- Ensuring greening projects are well designed, well used, and sustainable.
- Develop guidelines and processes customized to your school board.
Teacher Training and Lesson Plans
- Find lesson plans and techniques for teaching outdoors in Teacher's Corner.
- Participate in the three-day Outdoor Classroom Institute, an intensive teacher training opportunity.
- Mark your calendar for our workshop series.
- Attend the annual Forum, which brings designers together with administrators, facilities managers, teachers, researchers and specialists
- Keep updated on our workshop series schedule.
The Toyota Evergreen Learning Grounds program is made possible through the generous support of our National Title Partner:
