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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.

Bird feeders

OBJECTIVE Students will be able to identify different types of seeds used in bird feed. Students will understand the different uses of these seeds and why they are important. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS Why are seeds important? Who uses seeds to survive? MATERIALS NEEDED Birdseed (allergy alert)PineconesPeanut butter/sunbutter (allergy alert) Twine/stringPlastic spoons or wooden stirrers for spreading […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Seeds

Plant Reproduction

OBJECTIVE To observe sexual and asexual plant reproduction by saving seeds (sexual) and cloning succulents (asexual) ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS How do plants reproduce sexually?How do plants reproduce asexually?How have seeds changed over time? MATERIALS NEEDED Asexual reproduction: Sexual reproduction: PROCEDURE Have the materials set out in separate stations for sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction Introduction: How […]

Grade levels 6-8, 9-12

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Seeds

Growing Paperwhites

OBJECTIVE Students will draw how a plant change over time ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What is a bulb? What does a plant need to grow? MATERIALS NEEDED PROCEDURE Print out bulb observation sheets and fill one out as an example Introduction: Tell the children that since it’s too cold to work in the garden outside, we’re going […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Seeds

Fruit Dissection

OBJECTIVE Students will understand that a fruit is anything with seeds in it Students will infer that the size of a fruit does not indicate the size or amount of seeds ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS Where do seeds come from? How are seeds and fruits different from one another? MATERIALS NEEDED PROCEDURE Introduction: Play “Silent Museum” to […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Math, Science

Island Grown Schools topics Gardens, Seeds

Curriculum Toolkit

Bird feeders

Plant Reproduction

Growing Paperwhites

Fruit Dissection