Health & Wellness – Page 2 – Island Grown Schools

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.

Eating a Rainbow Unit

MA CURRICULUM FRAMEWORKS 2-PS1-1 OBJECTIVE Students will know that eating a variety of colors, and therefore fruits and vegetables, gives their bodies a variety of nutrients. Students will understand that a variety of foods provide for the unique needs of each of the systems in our bodies. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS Why do we eat food? Why […]

Grade levels 3-5, Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Health & Wellness

Island Grown Schools topics Healthy Eating

Curriculum Toolkit

Eating a Rainbow Unit