Eat Fresh Buy Local: A Guide to Eating Locally on a Limited Budget
This local Vermont guide is filled with great information on different food benefit programs like WIC as well as tips like preserving food and recipes for families on a budget.
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The Dirt Cheap Green Thumb
This book will help you save some Green in your garden! With 400 thrifty tips for saving money, time, and resources, you’re sure to find useful advice for starting or maintaining your own garden.
Discovering the Naturalist Intelligence: Science in the School Yard
Designed to get children out of their traditional indoor environment, Naturalist Intelligence is a curriculum that focuses on having students build observation, collection, analysis, and communication skills to become scientists within their school playground.
Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale
This program quality assessment instrument can be utilized for self-assessment and quality improvement in classrooms with children ages 2 ½ to 5 years old. It includes sections giving detailed rationale for what is being scored as well as instructions for using the score sheets.
The Early Sprouts Cookbook
An accompaniment to the Early Sprouts nutrition curriculum, this cookbook is a review of the previous book’s hands-on and sensory approach to food and includes children approved nutritious recipes for preschoolers and adults.
Early Sprouts: Cultivating Healthy Food Choices in Young Children
This twenty-four lesson nutrition curriculum for preschoolers emphasizes six specific colorful vegetables to promote healthier eating at home and school. Early chapters also provide a resource for educators to develop a school plot or container garden as well as details on how to get families involved.
Cooking with Kids Integrated Curriculum Guide Grades 2-3
This English and Spanish language curriculum guide includes 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 2-3.
Cooking with Kids Integrated Curriculum Guide Grades 4-6
This English and Spanish language curriculum guide includes 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 4-6.
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.
The Creative Curriculum for Preschool, 4th edition
Detailing various instructional strategies for teachers, this is a comprehensive child development curriculum aimed at building on preschool aged children’s strengths and interests.