Life Lab Science Program

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• Life Lab cultivates children's love of learning, healthy food, and nature through garden-based education.Life Lab is a national leader in garden-based science, nutrition and environmental education. Founded in 1979, Life Lab now serves more than 4,000 preschool and elementary students in Santa Cruz County directly and positively impacts the lives of more than 250,000 students across the U.S. each year.In 2001 we developed our Garden Classroom, an educational garden located at the UC Santa Cruz Farm, where we train teachers in garden-based education and serve 3,000 children annually through seasonal field trips and day camps. In April 2015 we were excited to welcome our first students from high-need elementary schools in the Pajaro Valley for science exploration programs at our new Blooming Classroom garden on a Watsonville farm. Students from local elementary schools are participating in field trips and enriched after-school programs at the Blooming Classroom, and we are training and equipping their teachers to use gardens at their schools for ongoing activities and lessons connected to Common Core math and language arts and Next Generation Science standards.We also provide professional development training and award-winning curricula to more than 2,000 educators across the U.S. each year, helping them develop and use gardens as living laboratories for learning about nutrition, food systems, science, the environment and much more. Our seminal book, The Growing Classroom, is considered by many an indispensable teaching resource for garden-based science and nutrition education and is used worldwide.Life Lab is also a leader in collaboration among organizations engaged in this work. We co-facilitate the National School Garden Network, CA School Garden Network, and smaller regional networks. We cofounded California FoodCorps and are national trainers for FoodCorps service members in 17 states. We also cohost the edWeb.net Growing School Gardens learning community.
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  Headquarters:1156 High Street , Santa Cruz, California, United States

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  Phone Number: +1 831-459-2001

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  Website: https://www.lifelab.org

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  Employees:30

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  Revenue:$1 - 10M

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  Legal Name:Life Lab Science Program

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