Anne Antilla has changed the curriculum of her art classes to incorporate the native plants garden. Each semester students design tiles for the garden, make heads with their names, research and produce native plant or animal posters, design gates or fences, etc..

The science teachers do observations of energy flow through, photosynthesis, adaptations, and pond water.

Photography students have taken pictures of every plant for a plant identification book available for student reference. Ivan Jimenez captured this bee fertilizing a California Encelia in May of 1997.

Several English teachers take their students out to the garden seasonally to observe changes which they present through a variety of projects.

1. Mrs. Cascales' classes have written many essays and poems, which no one has chosen to share.

2. Ms. Duran's twelfth grade English students have produced a video and several books in which they relate events in their lives to events in the garden.

1. A photograph from a student's book 2.A page from another student's book

3. Part of page 1 of a newspaper written by two students. 4. Part of page 2 of same newspaper

3. Mrs. Arellano's English as a Second Language class walked through the garden. Students then drew their impressions and wrote a sentence on an index card. Click here to see a 1999 sample.

Click here to see what her students did in August of 2000.