Lower Elementary

Common Threads World Garden

The World Garden:

The Common Threads World Garden is an outdoor program designed to teach children about planting, maintaining, and harvesting from a garden. Once the produce is harvested, we use healthy recipes to demonstrate and bring to life the Common Threads core nutritional philosophies and lessons. Students are given a hands-on experience in the garden while learning about plants, gardening, harvesting, cooking healthy foods and proper exercise. Classes are offered in 6-week sessions in the spring and fall.

ISU Extension and Outreach - Linn County

ISU Extension- Linn County provides services to improve the quality of life in its community. They offer research and education on public issues, food and nutrition, health, financial management, youth development, and family relationships.

White Rock Montessori Discovery Garden

 The White Rock Montessori (WRM) Discovery Garden Program offers an outdoor classroom that opens doors to learning, enabling children to discover the true value of organic farming and the benefits of living close to nature. At WRM, opportunities abound for students to receive a whole and balanced education. Environmental studies are integrated into a variety of areas in the student’s daily work.

ISU Extension and Outreach - Black Hawk County

 

 

ISU Extension and Outreach is committed to "Making a Difference for Iowans." Through research-based education, they grow businesses and strengthen communities, support a safe, sustainable, and affordable food supply, help Iowa become the healthiest state in the nation, and prepare young people for the future.

 

Davenport Community School District

Serving alongside a nutrition educator with Davenport's Community School District, the FoodCorps service member is teaching Pick a Better Snack and Act lessons in eleven different elementary schools, to all first grade classes. In total, the Pick a Better Snack program in Davenport reaches approximately 2,400 kids every month, in kindergarten, first grade, and third grade.

Salem County Health Department

 The Salem County Health Department employs a full time health educators who covers any and all health related topics that your group or organization may need. These presentations can be a onetime event or a series of educational presentations designed to build upon each other and provide comprehensive knowledge of a particular condition or illness. The Salem County Health Department is committed to providing our community with the resources to take charge of their lives and improve their health.

Missoula County Public School District

Missoula County Public Schools is an official service site partner with FoodCorps, a national service organization.

 Missoula County Public Schools serves area students through nine elementary schools, three middle schools and four high schools (three in Missoula and one in Seeley Lake). The District also operates an Alternative High School program, Early Learning Preschool program at Jefferson Center and an adult education program at The Lifelong Learning Center.

Cayuse Prairie School

Cayuse Prairie School is a small, rural elementary school located in Kalispell, MT. The school is a service site partner with the national service organization, FoodCorps. 

A FoodCorps service member will be joining the Northshore Compact in Flathead Valley, Montana, to work with three area schools. Among the three, the service member will serve in nutrition classes, school gardens, and farm to school procurement.

Bigfork School District #38

Bigfork School District is a service site partner with the national service organization, FoodCorps. Bigfork School District started building the school garden in 2012. A FoodCorps service member joined the Northshore Compact in Flathead Valley, Montana, in 2013 to work with three area middle schools. Among the three, the service member serves in nutrition classes, school gardens and farm to school procurement.  

Mission Mountain Food Enterprise Center at Lake County Community Development Center

The Mission Mountain Food Enterprise Center is a service site for the national FoodCorps organization. A FoodCorps service member is partnered at MMFEC. and collaborates with teachers to integrate food and nutrition education into their classrooms, with school and community members to start school gardens and garden-based education programs, and with food service directors and producers to get more local, healthy foods into schools.

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