Food, Farming, and Nutrition Curriculum Topics

As many of you know, creating, refining, and integrating new curriculum takes a lot of time and patience. As we work on developing new opportunities for professional academic development here in Windham County, we encourage you to explore the pages below.

Teachers across the country and state have created, piloted, and assessed a number of successful teaching units that incorporate farm and food education into the classroom, while meeting state standards. We hope these links will give you some ideas and inspiration as to what is possible!

Curriculum Concepts & Skills

Vermont Food Education Every Day

• Standards-Based Teacher Units (Pre-K through 12)

Vermont Agriculture in the Classroom

• Standards-Based Maple Unit (K-8)
• Standards-Based Dairy Unit (K- 4 )

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project

• Food Foundations Curriculum (K-4)
• Plant & Animal Life Cycles (K-4)
• Baby Animals (K-4)

Cornell University- Garden Based Learning

• Climate Change in the Garden

Kids Gardening.org

• Growing Ideas: Classroom Project Ideas

The LunchBox

• Kids Healthy Meal Wheel

Revolution Foods

• Nutrition Ed Activities, including demos on the Sugar Content in Beverages, Fat Content in Foods, and Salt Content in Foods

Composting Association of Vermont

• Worms in School Workshop (K-8)