Common Core Cooking and Gardening for the Next Generation

Common Core Cooking empowers educators to integrate food education by aligning instruction to academic standards. 

Eat-Read-Talk-Write is a classroom-tested pedagogical model that starts with a shared food experience that sets context for literacy and science lessons. The shared experience begins with a simple cooking or tasting activity that engages students in focused sensory exploration of food. Followed by reading high-quality text, participating in rich discussion, and writing for authentic purposes, this approach can be extended to include Planting-Growing-Harvesting activities that support science learning in the school garden.