Food systems – 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.

Food Supply Charades

MA CURRICULUM FRAMEWORKS 4-ESS3-1 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 […]

Grade levels 3-5

Core curriculum subjects English Language, Science

Island Grown Schools topics Food systems

Build a Fish and Fish Detectives

MA CURRICULUM FRAMEWORKS 1-LS3-1 OBJECTIVE Students will learn the anatomy of “finfish” and use descriptions of the anatomy to identify certain local species of seafood ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What are the parts of a fish?What are some local types of fish? MATERIALS NEEDED Sets of “fish parts” – cutouts of different parts of fish anatomy, with […]

Grade levels 3-5, Prek-2