In this eighth-grade humanities lesson, students watch a short video about the 2010 fight by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers for a penny more per pound of tomatoes picked, and read an article that describes where consumer food dollars go in the food system.
This resource describes Padlet, an online sharing tool, and provides step-by-step instructions on how to create a Padlet page for an in-person or virtual learning environment. It also offers suggestions for how to use this tool to support student learning and engagement.
QR codes can be a useful tool for facilitating creative and exploratory activities, both in person and remotely. This document outlines the steps for creating QR codes to support your virtual classroom and offers suggestions for which activities QR codes can support.
Food can be a pathway to our past, our heritage, and our history. One way for us to understand how food can link us to our past is to speak to people who have been around a little longer than we have. The stories, practices, and rituals of our elders can teach us many important lessons.
In this lesson, students explore the common causes and environmental and community impacts of food waste. They brainstorm potential solutions to reducing food waste, in their own lives and more broadly.
All of the Edible Education at Home lessons are formatted as PDF files. Some of these files contain fillable fields which allow your students to type responses to prompts directly into the lesson file.
This lesson builds upon past content students learned about how plants need light. The activities invite students to test a plants’ leaf ability to absorb light in the absence of light.
This lesson invites students to experience soil and get to know the living critters that live in
it, and the nonliving things that make up soil. These activities can be taught indoors with
large butcher paper on the floors.
Driving Question: How does a worm grow and change during its life?
Our worms are like us. They grow and change throughout their life. A worm’s life cycle is one of the simplest and most engaging in the garden. For this reason we always start the Life Cycle Unit with worms.