Farms – Page 4 – 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.

Apple Unit

OBJECTIVE Students will understand where apples come from, know some different apple varieties, and know how to make food with apples. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS How do apples grow? What can we make with apples? MATERIALS NEEDED Activity One: One set of apple sequence cards stapled in order for each child, one set of apple sequence cards […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Arts, Science

Island Grown Schools topics Farms, Healthy Eating

Animals in Winter Lesson

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 winter? What do animals on a farm do in winter? What do animals on […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Farms

Curriculum Toolkit

Apple Unit

Animals in Winter Lesson

Stone Soup

Squash Taste Test