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Got Veggies?
Got Veggies?
BY: Community GroundWorks and Wisconsin Department of Health Services
GRADE: 2nd-3rd
DESCRIPTION: Got Veggies? is a garden-based nutrition education curriculum. The primary goal of garden-based nutrition education is to get children to eat more fruits and vegetables.
The Great Garden Detective Adventure
The Great Garden Detective Adventure
BY: USDA Food and Nutrition Service
GRADE: 3rd-4th
DESCRIPTION: The Great Garden Detective Adventure utilizes a mystery and detective theme to engage students in discovering how fruits and vegetables grow, how to prepare them, and the tasty results.
Grow It, Try It, Like It!
Grow It, Try It, Like It!
BY: USDA Food and Nutrition Service
GRADE: PreK (ages 3-5)
DESCRIPTION: Grow It, Try It, Like It! Fun with Fruits and Vegetables at Family Child Care is designed to help Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) operators provide garden-based nutrition education for children ages 3 through 5 years old in family child care settings. Through the activities in Grow It, Try It, Like It!, children touch, smell, feel, and taste new fruits and vegetables. Children also learn how fruits and vegetables grow. Planting activities help children connect the delicious food choices at the table with the farm, orchard, or garden.
Cycles in the Garden
Cycles in the Garden
BY: Sustainable School Projects
GRADES: K-4th
DESCRIPTION: Cycles in the Garden is a hands-on unit of study which builds scientific habits of mind and celebrates the cycles found in a garden community. The lessons integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies while students practice stewardship skills in a classroom Grow Lab and school yard garden habitat. Through experiments, ongoing observation, tasting, and planting, students develop an understanding of, appreciation for, and curiosity about the processes and cycles involved in the plants and animals making their home in the soil right outside their door.
Food Miles
Food Miles
BY: Sustainable School Projects
GRADES: 5th-8th
DESCRIPTION: In this active lesson, students will consider the sources of our food, and the distance the food travels to reach our plates. Working in groups, students will trace the steps that a meal, either sourced locally or non-locally, took to reach the plate. Students will compile data and calculate the miles each meal traveled. The lesson concludes with an energizing activity where students expend their own energy to demonstrate how far each meal has traveled from farm to plate.
Gutter Greenhouses, Photosynthesis, and Pollination Lesson Plans
Gutter Greenhouses, Photosynthesis, and Pollination Lesson Plans
BY: United States Botanic Garden & Brian Emerson
GRADES: 1st-5th
DESCRIPTION: On this google doc, there are many different lesson plans and links including National Agriculture in the Classroom and WI Agriculture in the Classroom. There is also a link to Hidden Savanna Farm, a farm located outside of Madison.
Extra Lesson Resources
Extra Lesson Resources
Farm To School Resource Database
Farm To School Resource Database
BY: National Farm to School Network
GRADES: All
DESCRIPTION: Large database for all things Farm to School including curriculum, statistics and reports, food justice, food safety, and much more!
KidsGardening.org
KidsGardening.org
BY: KidsGardening.org
GRADES: All
DESCRIPTION: Contains lists of lesson plans, activities and grants.
The Edible Schoolyard Project
The Edible Schoolyard Project
BY: The Edible Schoolyard Project
DESCRIPTION: A search engine for all types of lessons and grades.
Gardening Resource Library
Gardening Resource Library
BY: Big Green
GRADES: All
DESCRIPTION: Search engine filled with activities, courses, how-to videos, recipes and more.
Growing Food and Seeds to Success Toolkit
Growing Food and Seeds to Success Toolkit
BY: KidsGardening.org
GRADES: 4-8
DESCRIPTION: Curriculum that helps you integrate your school food garden program into the classroom curriculum. Also, compiles knowledge from school gardeners across the country to provide resources that help initiate and sustain a successful school food garden.
Team Nutrition Garden Resources
Team Nutrition Garden Resources
BY: USDA Food and Nutrition Service
GRADE: All
DESCRIPTION: Website includes a variety of curriculums, posters, worksheets, and activities.
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