Introducing Nourishing Choices
This month
we’re offering a peek inside our newest resource, Nourishing
Choices: Implementing Food Education in Classrooms, Cafeterias,
and Schoolyards, created to help you plan a comprehensive
and effective food education program. You’ll
also find related hands-on, taste-buds-on classroom lessons.
Background and Lessons
A
Menu for Change - A brief intro to Nourishing
Choices.
Excerpts from Nourishing Choices - profiles
of effective food education programs in action:
Harvest
of Dreams
Good
Things Cooking in North Carolina
Shifting
School Food Culture
Lesson: Savoring
Flavors: Local Tastes Compete - Challenge students
to design and conduct a taste test to compare locally grown produce
with that grown far away.
Lesson: Food
and Culture: Exploring the Flavors of Your Community - Explore the "foodways" represented
in your classroom and broader community to whet
kids' appetites for learning across the curriculum.
Program Spotlights
Healing
Children Through Gardening - Kidsgardening Advisory
Board Member Barbara Rees shares this program spotlight about
a therapeutic gardening program that serves children dealing with
crisis situations.
Adopt
a School Garden Spotlight - Sponsored by Smith & Hawken,
Fairhill Intergenerational School supports learning and community
through student-elder relationships.
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