Driving Question: How does a worm grow and change during its life?
Our worms are like us. They grow and change throughout their life. A worm’s life cycle is one of the simplest and most engaging in the garden. For this reason we always start the Life Cycle Unit with worms.
In this lesson, students participate in making a potting mix using a recipe. Students will: read recipe, delegate tasks, measure ingredients, and work together to mix potting mix in a coordinated choreography.
In this lesson, students participate in making an Herbal salve to take home. Students will: learn about the different properties of plants grown in the garden or in the essential oils.
The attached resources provide a structure for creating original lessons as well as thinking critically about current lessons and how effective they are at meeting various learning goals.
In this 8th grade science lesson, students prepare Kale Pesto and Ricotta Cheese, and visit the pH Lab where they use cabbage juice as an indicator to test the pH of common kitchen ingredients and products.
The food choice consideration cards are one of the resources we use in our 8th grade Debate Plate lesson series to prompt self-reflection, critical thought and meaningful conversations. They are small, colorful cards that have a consideration someone might have when choosing what to eat (ex.
Sharing a food memory is an activity 6th graders participate in during their very first kitchen lesson. Students complete the food memory worksheet (below) in their homerooms before coming for their first kitchen class.
Knife skills are at the foundation of every students’ experience in the Edible Schoolyard kitchen classroom. Before students touch knives in the kitchen, they participate in a kitchen orientation. This orientation lays the foundation for safely learning and practicing knife skills.
This document, used at the 2018 Edible Schoolyard Academy, assisted participants to envision the growth of their garden programs as well as consider what assets they could make use of to support their work.
Longtime garden consultant Wendy Johnson compiled this list of gardening books to help the reader become more skilled and knowledgeable about the theories, techniques, and history of gardening.
