Integrate environment, food and garden learning into your classroom. Considering how you can establish rituals and routines that allow students to develop their environmental literacy, build community and understanding through discussing and sharing food, and take learning outdoors and into the school garden. Try out a lesson every month. Take an existing unit you teach and create a EFG thematic approach. Do an action project with your students. The possibilities are endless and can be a powerful way to guide student inquiry, strengthen classroom culture and support our school communities.
Check out the curricula below to begin your journey.
Green Schoolyards America has put together a comprehensive list of curriculum for outdoor education.
Check it out here!
Here are some of The Center Team's favorite EFG Curricula.
Have lessons, activities or curriculum you want to share? Email sarah.pipping@ousd.org
Botany on Your Plate - Check out a copy of the book from The Center!
Big Green Real Food Lab - A 9-12th grade garden-based social entrepreneurship curriculum
The Growing Classroom: Garden-Based Science - Check out a copy of the book from The Center!
FoodCorps Curriculum - Currently unavailable online. Check out a copy of the book from The Center!
Bay Area Garden Education Guidebook for Teaching Science Using Your School Garden - by Grey Kolevzon
Find great activities on kidsgardening.org