In this lesson students will explore garden objects using their five senses, write descriptive words or phrases about each object, and collaborate to make group list poems.
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Place of Learning: Garden Classroom, Academic Classroom
Type: Lessons
Programs: The Cornucopia Project
Grades: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
Math questions that are integrated with garden and science curriculum with an emphasis on inherited traits, learned behavior and area.
Place of Learning: Garden Classroom, Academic Classroom
Type: Program Management
Programs: East Fort Worth Montessori Academy
Grades: Grade 4, Grade 5
In this Google Hangout co-hosted by the Jamie Oliver Food Revolution Community, we spoke with three school garden programs from West Virginia, California, and Oregon about their challenges and successes in starting and sustaining school garden programs. We were also joined by...
Place of Learning: Garden Classroom, Kitchen Classroom, School Cafeteria
Type: Program Management
Programs: The Edible Schoolyard Project
Grades: Other
Professors at Teachers College, Columbia University, created our unique Food Day school curriculum. The 88-page Food Day curriculum for upper elementary and middle school grads offers five lessons designed to teach children the importance of eating real, fresh food; cutting...
Place of Learning: Garden Classroom, Kitchen Classroom, Academic Classroom
Type: Lessons
Programs: Food Day
Grades: Pre-K, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2 , Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
In this lesson, students are given a variety of food items and asked to create a healthy meal. After compiling a plate of food in small groups, the students come back together as a large group and present their meal and explain the choices they made. Students...
Place of Learning: Kitchen Classroom
Type: Lessons
Programs: North Country School and Camp Treetops
Grades:
In this lesson, students discuss the seasons, explore seasonal food from the garden, and participate in a mystery vegetable tasting.
Place of Learning: Garden Classroom, Kitchen Classroom, School Cafeteria, Academic Classroom
Type: Lessons
Grades: Pre-K, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Rather than throwing out or composting your carrot tops, why not try growing some new greens out of this garden/kitchen scrap? This winter or indoor activity shows two methods on how you can continue to explore plant growth using plant parts that you might otherwise...
Place of Learning: Garden Classroom, Kitchen Classroom, Academic Classroom
Type: Lessons
Programs: Gateway Greening
Grades:
Check out this fun way to practice measuring and correctly spacing out your seeds, especially the really tiny ones like lettuce and carrots. Using simple and accessible materials like flour, water, and toilet paper, you can make your own seed tape, which you can store...
Place of Learning: Garden Classroom, Kitchen Classroom
Type: Lessons
Programs: Gateway Greening
Grades:
In this video, learn how to direct-seed in rows and by broadcasting.
Place of Learning: Garden Classroom
Type: Lessons
Programs: Gateway Greening
Grades:
While summer may be coming to an end, the fall only marks the beginning of a new growing season. As you continue to harvest warm-season crops from the summer, you can start planting cool-season crops again, as you did in the early spring. Many of these crops actually taste...
Place of Learning: Garden Classroom, Academic Classroom
Type: Lessons
Programs: Gateway Greening
Grades: