The Hayride: A Resource for Educational Farm Field Trips
This book provides a list of farms in the Appalachia community that allows schools to visit, and a list of what lessons to teach there.
Kindergarten
Elliot’s Extraordinary Cookbook
Elliot learns to love cooking through his neighbor Stella. He also learns to understand where his food comes from and what makes the food he cooks healthy.
Cooking with Kids Integrated Curriculum Guide Grades K-1
This English and Spanish language curriculum guide comes with a Student Food Journal to go alongside all the lesson plans. The lesson plans are meant for children to get hands-on experience with food while integrating language, math, science and social studies for grades K-1.
Digging Deeper: Integrating Youth Gardens into Schools & Communities
This guide is meant to help communities or schools get started with a garden, from fundraising and having an initial meeting, to breaking ground and activities involving youth. The case studies of school and community gardens around the United States show how connecting children to the earth is so important for their education.
Dinner From Dirt
Dinner from Dirt provides the basic steps to teach children how to garden and what to plant. Then it keeps on developing the idea of what we garden into what we eat, by providing recipes. Dinner from Dirt shows children that if there is something they really like to eat, pizza or stir fry, they can
Big Ideas: Linking Food, Culture, Health, and the Environment
Big Ideas provides teachers, kindergarten through high school, ideas on how to educate their students about food, culture, health, and the environment. Using the four perspectives it lays out steps on how to educate students on food and food systems.
The ABC’s of Fruits and Vegetables and Beyond
This book highlights fresh fruits and vegetables through the ABC’s, with a fun and creative poem for each letter. Beyond just the ABC’s are fun facts and activities including recipes and book recommendations about each featured produce. Check out the recipes for Applewiches and Pot of Gold Biscuits that can be made with local Apples and
About the Authors: Writing Workshop with Our Youngest Writers
Learn how to work with our youngest authors by creating a supportive and encouraging environment that can energize them to create using text. The author provides step by step instructions on setting up an age appropriate writing workshop with units that cover how to form ideas, structure the text, and even develop illustrations that nourish
Authors in the Pantry: Recipes, Stories, and More
Filled with recipes, stories, and book recommendations from children’s authors and illustrators, this book is a great resource to connect cooking with children’s literature.
Planning for Inquiry: It’s Not an Oxymoron!
With new guidelines and requirements that have made their way into all school system’s curricula, teachers have found it very difficult to bring their own creativity into the classroom. If you’re an educator that believes there is more to teaching than just reading a script, than this book is for you. Diane Parker invites you