Curricula – Page 23 – Island Grown Schools

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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.

Salad Planting and Poetry

OBJECTIVE Students will be able to use their senses in the garden ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS How do we grow food ourselves? What can we experience with all our senses in the garden? MATERIALS NEEDED PROCEDURE Introduction: Today we are going to plant our salad garden. But we are going to do something special to keep us […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Gardens, Healthy Eating

Garden Observation

OBJECTIVE Students will be able to make observation about the garden Students will be able to draw a picture of something in the garden ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What is happening in our garden right now? MATERIALS NEEDED Blank Authors/Illustrators sheetCrayons, split into small containers for kids to have with them while working Pencil/Pen for teacher to […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Gardens

Salad Garden Eating and Celebration

OBJECTIVE Students will try fresh vegetable produce ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What do we grow in the garden? How can we prepare a garden snack? MATERIALS NEEDED 2 big bowls for lettuce and massaged kale salad; 4 small bowls for feta cheese, dried fruit, sunflower seeds and dressing; plastic bag; lemon juice, olive oil, rice vinegar, honey, […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Gardens, Healthy Eating

Garden Genetics

OBJECTIVE Students will list traits of different tomatoes Students will make a Punnett Square to cross breed two tomatoes ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS How have plants changed over time Where do seeds come from? How do our food choices affect the world around us? MATERIALS NEEDED Several different tomato varieties (eg. Green Zebra, Amish Paste, Peach, Black […]

Grade levels 6-8, 9-12

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Gardens

Garden Collage

OBJECTIVE Students will be able to identify their favorite fruits and vegetables Students will decide collaboratively what to grow in the garden ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What are your favorite fruits and vegetables? What should we grow in our garden? MATERIALS NEEDED PROCEDURE Introduction Explain to the class that we are going to start to think about […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Gardens