Healthy Eating – Page 6 – 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.

Flower Scavenger Hunt

OBJECTIVE Students will practice identification by comparing flowers to a picture. Students will practice observation skills in the garden. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What flowers are growing in our garden? MATERIALS NEEDED Flower worksheet, markers or colored pencils, clipboards PROCEDURE Introduction:At the table, ask the students to point out where the flower section of the garden is. […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Arts

Island Grown Schools topics Healthy Eating

Eating a Rainbow Unit

OBJECTIVE Students will know that eating a variety of colors, and therefore fruits and vegetables, gives their bodies a variety of nutrients. Students will understand that a variety of foods provide for the unique needs of each of the systems in our bodies. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS Why do we eat food? Why do foods have colors? […]

Grade levels 3-5, Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Health & Wellness

Island Grown Schools topics Healthy Eating

Pickled Dilly Beans

OBJECTIVE Students will understand the concept of preserving food to make it last longer ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS How do we use plants from the garden? What foods do I eat? How do I preserve food? MATERIALS NEEDED PROCEDURE Set up: Make brine- mix 1 cup water, 1 cup white vinegar, and 1 tablespoon kosher salt, or […]

Grade levels 3-5, Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects

Island Grown Schools topics Healthy Eating

Curriculum Toolkit

Flower Scavenger Hunt

Eating a Rainbow Unit

Pickled Dilly Beans