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Curriculum Toolkit
Over the years, we have honed in on priority curricular units for every grade level, preschool through 12th grade, that build on each other and provide a meaningful food education for the students we work with.
This Toolkit is the compilation of these units, along with their related teaching standards and sequence. We are constantly adding to this site, so please check in again soon for updates.

We designed this curriculum framework to help our students grasp the following key concepts by the time they graduate from High School:

Feel confident in making healthy food choices

Appreciate the farming profession

Know that everyone can grow food

Understand the connection between healthy soil, healthy plants and healthy people

Recognize a regenerative, local food system is inclusive and promotes a healthy ecosystem.

Worm Stories

OBJECTIVE Students will translate knowledge about worm’s anatomy, habitat and needs to survive into drawing and story telling. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What do worms look like? What do they eat? How do they get around? What do they like to do? MATERIALS NEEDED Book Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin, Plastic plates to put worms, […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Arts, English Language, Science

Island Grown Schools topics Soil

Butter Making

OBJECTIVE Students will make butter ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS Where does food come from? What foods do I eat? MATERIALS NEEDED PROCEDURE Activity:An hour before beginning this activity, remove the cream from the refrigerator. Cream at room temperature will turn into butter more quickly than cold cream. Tell the students that many food products are made from […]

Grade levels 3-5, Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects English Language, Science

Island Grown Schools topics Farms

Food Supply Charades

OBJECTIVE Students will understand the amount of time and energy that goes into growing produce. Students will understand that more resources are wasted when we waste food beyond the food itself. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What do we waste when we throw out food? MATERIALS NEEDED What are our favorite fruits and vegetablesWhich foods help our bodies […]

Grade levels 3-5

Core curriculum subjects English Language, Science

Island Grown Schools topics Food systems

Curriculum Toolkit

Worm Stories

Butter Making

Food Supply Charades