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Online Lessons and Curricula to Teach Garden-Enhanced Nutrition Education
Online Lessons: Garden-Enhanced Nutrition Education
Search the California School Garden Network’s Publication Database for free or low-cost GENE curriculum publications. Most of the publications listed are free and all are reviewed by CSGN before being posted.
Edible School Yard.org has an extensive list of edible education resources submitted by users across the nation and world.
Online Lessons: Nutrition Concepts
General Nutrition Education
- Games, lessons and resources for kids, parents and educators from the Santa Cruz City Schools at Schoolnutritionandfitness.com
- Free resources on nutrition education from USDA’s Team Nutrition including storybooks, posters, fact sheets, and activity guides http://teamnutrition.usda.gov/library.html
- Nutrition Education lessons for integration into core educational content standards, from California Healthy Kids Resource Center
Food Grouping Activities
- Choose My Plate: USDA’s online nutrition resource covering the food groups and key nutrition education messages, includes posters, tip sheets, and activities for teachers
- Chef Ann’s Meal Wheel: poster and visual aid of the food groups and serving sizes from Chef Ann
- Dairy Council of California: online games, activity books, and educational game available for purchase on physical activity, food groups and serving size resources.
Eat the Colors of the Rainbow: Nutrition Lessons on Eating a Diversity of Fruits and Vegetables
- Nuts About Nutrients Lesson: Trace a person and link nutrients to body functions, from Life Lab based on TWIGS “Vitamin Values” Lesson
- “What’s In It for Us?” Lesson or Download: Lesson on nutritional content of fruits and vegetables using CDE Photo Cards and Harvest of the Month materials
- Content Standards for “What’s In It for Us?” Lesson or Download
Online Lessons: Edible Activities
Six Plant Parts Lessons
- “Plant Part Factory” Lesson: Introducing the six plant parts, from UC Davis Children’s Garden
- “Finger Salad” Lesson: harvest and prepare a simple hand-held salad, for all ages, from UC Davis Children’s Garden
- “My Edible Garden” Lesson: create a miniature edible garden of harvested plant parts on a cracker, from Life Lab
- “My Edible Garden” Lesson: video demonstration of the lesson
- “Roots, Stems, Leaves” the Six Plant Part Song: listen on Singing in Our Garden album by Banana Slug String Band or download the lyrics
Three Sisters (Corn, Beans and Squash Traditional Planting) Lessons
- The Three Sisters Lesson Plan
- Three Sisters Story for use with the Lesson Plan
- Three Sisters Companion Planting Information
- Download publications The Three Sisters: Exploring an Iroquois Garden and Cooking with the Three Sisters from Cornell’s Garden-Based Learning website
- More Three Sisters Resources shared at past trainings
Math Connections
- Fruit Salad Math Detailed Worksheet
- Six Seed Trail Mix Lesson and Images