We want you to share what you are creating with your peers, teacher, or family members. There are a number of different ways you can share what you are creating.
Sometimes, our peers (friends, classmates, neighbors, siblings, or cousins) might have ideas, questions, or perspectives that we would not have thought of on our own. You can learn from one another! In this lesson, you and a friend will chat about your kitchen goals and questions.
In this seventh-grade humanities lesson, students review and practice three cooking methods that they have used in previous kitchen lessons. Students work together to make decisions as to how they will utilize different methods to cook different ingredients.
Food can be a pathway to our past, our heritage, and our history. One way for us to understand how food can link us to our past is to speak to people who have been around a little longer than we have. The stories, practices, and rituals of our elders can teach us many important lessons.
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.
This resource provides the general framework that ESY garden teachers use to design their lessons. This framework divides student learning into five phases – Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate – and provides sample critical thinking questions teacher can ask for each phase.
We use Reflection Cards with our students to prompt reflection and self-evaluation on skills, norms, and behaviors that are important in the kitchen and garden classrooms.
This resource provides a set of open-ended questions intended to spur conversation and reflective thinking among students. At the Edible Schoolyard Berkeley, these questions are hand-written on index cards and are used in the kitchen classroom to encourage communication around the table.
When developing science lessons for the garden setting, we rely on four primary methods of integrating content into a typical garden class: opening circle demonstrations, rotating labs, small working groups, and hands-on experiences that take the entire class period.