Healthy Eating – 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.

A Fruit Is A Suitcase

OBJECTIVE Students will understand fruits protect their seeds Students will taste pomegranate Students will understand fruits have seeds ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What foods do I eat? What is a seed? MATERIALS PROCEDURE Before the lesson, put the pomegranates, knife, cutting board and book in the suitcase so students don’t know what is inside. Introduction: Start the […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects English Language, Science

Island Grown Schools topics Healthy Eating, Seeds

Pea Trellis Project – Lesson 4

OBJECTIVE Students will cook and taste pea shoot pesto Students will chop vegetables ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What do plants need to grow? How can I grow food? How do I prepare nutritious food? MATERIALS PROCEDURE Introduction: Observe peas together and take in how much they have changed! Notice if they are enjoying the support of the […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Health & Wellness, Science

Island Grown Schools topics Gardens, Healthy Eating, Seeds

Pea Trellis Project – Lesson 3

OBJECTIVE Students will collaboratively build a trellis to support their pea shoots Students will notice how their peas change over time Students will draw a science drawing of their peas ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What do plants need to grow? How can I grow food? MATERIALS PROCEDURE Introduction: Review what students have done so far in the […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Gardens, Healthy Eating, Seeds

Pea Trellis Project – Lesson 2

OBJECTIVE Students will understand different plants grow in different ways Students will understand that gardeners and farmers help plants grow Students will notice how their peas changed ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What do plants need to grow? How can I grow food? MATERIALS PROCEDURE Introduction: Review that last week students planted peas to grow pea shoots. Review […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Gardens, Healthy Eating, Seeds

Pea Trellis Project – Lesson 1

OBJECTIVE Students will learn the word trellis Students will plant pea seeds Students will understand some plants like to have support as they grow ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS How do I grow food? What do plants need to grow? MATERIALS PROCEDURE Introduction: Play Growing Pea time lapse video of a pea plant growing. While watching the video, […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Gardens, Healthy Eating, Seeds

Growing Microgreens

OBJECTIVE Students will be able identify what plants need to grow Students will grow Microgreens ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What do plants need to grow? What kind of farms are there? What plants do we eat? MATERIALS PROCEDURE Introduction: Each group will be able to plant their microgreens in the place that they think will grow the […]

Grade levels 3-5, 6-8

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Food & People, Healthy Eating

Curriculum Toolkit

A Fruit Is A Suitcase

Pea Trellis Project – Lesson 4

Pea Trellis Project – Lesson 3

Pea Trellis Project – Lesson 2

Pea Trellis Project – Lesson 1

Growing Microgreens