Science – Page 22 – Island Grown Schools

FREE FOOD WASTE DROP-OFF
- Drop off household food waste for free at the Island Grown Farm, Chappy ferry dock, and select Island transfer stations. Edgartown, Chilmark, and West Tisbury are currently accepting food waste drop off for free. The service is $2 for a five-gallon bucket at the remaining transfer stations.
- Free countertop buckets are available at all Island waste facilities and the Island Grown office.
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MOBILE MARKET
- Our Mobile Market will be on the road June through October delivering farm-fresh produce and eggs.
- Place your online order 24 hours in advance at mobilemarketorders.square.site.
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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.

Apple Unit

OBJECTIVE Students will understand the lifecycle of an apple Students will be able to name some apple varieties Students will cook food with apples ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS How do apples grow? What can we make with apples? MATERIALS NEEDED Activity One: Activity Two: Activity Three: Activity Four: PROCEDURE Activity one Introduction: Explain to the group that […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Arts, Science

Island Grown Schools topics Farms, Healthy Eating

Winter Farm Animals

OBJECTIVE Students will be able to describe the seasonal changes on a farm, from summer to fall to winter Students will be able to identify the changes in animals from fall to winter ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What happens on a farm in the winter? What do farm animals eat in the winter? MATERIALS NEEDED PROCEDURE Introduction: […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Farms

The Potato – A brief history of an incredible tuber

OBJECTIVE Understand the history of potato cultivation. Understand the potato as a product of thousands of years of cultivation by indigenous peoples. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What is the significance of the potato to human history? How are indigenous agricultural practices different from those used in industrial agriculture? How can we continue to rely on potatoes as […]

Grade levels 6-8

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Food systems

Planting a Sensory Garden

OBJECTIVE Students connect their five senses to something in the garden ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS Which senses do we use in the garden? MATERIALS NEEDED Touch: sage, mullen Smell: herbs Taste: pea shoots, sorrel, cherry tomatoes, kale Sound: wind chime, bird feeder to attract birds Sight: zinnias, calendula, merigolds PROCEDURE Buy plants or have starts ready, choose […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Gardens

Plant Reproduction

OBJECTIVE To observe sexual and asexual plant reproduction by saving seeds (sexual) and cloning succulents (asexual) ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS How do plants reproduce sexually?How do plants reproduce asexually?How have seeds changed over time? MATERIALS NEEDED Asexual reproduction: Sexual reproduction: PROCEDURE Have the materials set out in separate stations for sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction Introduction: How […]

Grade levels 6-8, 9-12

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Seeds

Overfishing

OBJECTIVE Students will explore what overfishing is Students will explore solutions to overfishing Students will understand overfishing has negative environmental impacts ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS How do the food choices we make impact the people and environment? MATERIALS NEEDED PROCEDURE Before the Lesson: Mix the beans and grains into bowls (one bowl for each group) Introduction: Begin […]

Grade levels 3-5, 6-8

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Food systems