The Gulps
With the help of the youngest Gulp, Dawn, her family learns the value of healthy habits. The Gulps discover that life can be highly rewarding, without all the fast food.
Food
Dear Tomato
A collection of international poems, highlighting various topics from Grandpa’s Garden to A Potato’s Valentine to The Emperor’s Greenhouse.
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.
Growing Minds and Mills River Elementary head to McConnell Farm!
More than 50 teachers (including Head Start!), administrators, and cafeteria staff got to see first-hand where their food comes from and were inspired with fun activities and field trips they could implement in the classroom.
Apples A to Z
Packed with loads of information about apples and how they grow, this book takes readers on an alphabetical journey through the apple orchard to the kitchen and includes a recipe for homemade applesauce!
Garbage Helps our Garden Grow
Illustrated with vibrant photographs, this story explains how food and garden scraps break down into compost. Follow along as a family composts their table scraps (even their old Jack-o-lantern!) in the backyard bin, eventually using the resulting compost to enrich the soil for the spring garden.
Pancakes, Pancakes!
Jack is hungry and wants a big pancake for breakfast. But first, his mother needs some help gathering the ingredients. Jack harvests the wheat to mill the flour, gathers the eggs, milks the cow, and churns the butter for his pancake! This lively and vibrant story helps children gain an understanding of everything that goes
Cooking Play – Preschool
Children learn about a variety of cooking tools including plastic knives, measuring spoons and cups, whisks and mixing spoons. Through a fun, dynamic learning environment children explore how to use the tools successfully.
Downloads
- Cooking Play – Preschool (quick view as .pdf)
Vegetable Crowns – Preschool
Children gain knowledge and interest in new fruits and vegetables through making vegetable crowns. Students learn to identify new fruits and vegetables. Students associate vegetables and fruits with a positive experience making a fun art project.
Downloads
- Vegetable Crowns – Preschool (quick view as .pdf)
Sweet Potato Exploration – Preschool
Children use their sense to explore sweet potatoes and gain confidence in trying new vegetables. Students learn to identify a new vegetable. Students associate vegetables and fruits with a dynamic activity and positive experience.
Downloads
- Sweet Potato Tasting – Preschool (quick view as .pdf)