Healthy Foods from Healthy Soils: A Hands-on Resource for Teachers

Healthy Foods from Healthy Soils invites you and your students to discover where food comes from, how our bodies use food, and what happens to food waste.
You'll participate in the ecological cycle of food production — compost formation — recycling back to the soil, while helping children understand how their food choices affect not only their own health, but farmers, the environment, and your local community. Suggested resources encourage you to adapt the program to your needs, small scale or large, urban or rural. Handy extension activities demonstrate ways that students can help effect change in their own lives and communities. Background information, suggested readily available materials, and clear instructions give you enough guidance to integrate these hands-on activities into your classroom right away.

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Healthy Foods from Healthy Soils: A Hands-on Resource for Teachers

Healthy Foods from Healthy Soils invites you and your students to discover where food comes from, how our bodies use food, and what happens to food waste.
You'll participate in the ecological cycle of food production — compost formation — recycling back to the soil, while helping children understand how their food choices affect not only their own health, but farmers, the environment, and your local community. Suggested resources encourage you to adapt the program to your needs, small scale or large, urban or rural. Handy extension activities demonstrate ways that students can help effect change in their own lives and communities. Background information, suggested readily available materials, and clear instructions give you enough guidance to integrate these hands-on activities into your classroom right away.

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Healthy Foods from Healthy Soils: A Hands-on Resource for Teachers

Healthy Foods from Healthy Soils: A Hands-on Resource for Teachers

Healthy Foods from Healthy Soils: A Hands-on Resource for Teachers

Healthy Foods from Healthy Soils: A Hands-on Resource for Teachers

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Overview

Healthy Foods from Healthy Soils invites you and your students to discover where food comes from, how our bodies use food, and what happens to food waste.
You'll participate in the ecological cycle of food production — compost formation — recycling back to the soil, while helping children understand how their food choices affect not only their own health, but farmers, the environment, and your local community. Suggested resources encourage you to adapt the program to your needs, small scale or large, urban or rural. Handy extension activities demonstrate ways that students can help effect change in their own lives and communities. Background information, suggested readily available materials, and clear instructions give you enough guidance to integrate these hands-on activities into your classroom right away.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780884482420
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
Publication date: 02/28/2003
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range: 5 - 11 Years

About the Author

Elizabeth Patten is a dietician working in the fiels of health education who lives with her family and several thousand red wigglers.

Kathy Lyons is an environmental educator and puppeteer who first created Annelida the worm puppet for a recycling program. Annelida has since joined the team as a "spokesworm" for this program.

Helen Stevens is an illustrator and graphic artist who lives in Maine.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsviii
Introductionx
How to Use This Guidexi
Using Puppets: Annelida in the Classroomxiv
Where Does Food Come From?1
Lets Get Grounded1
It's a Small World Demonstrate the finite nature of earth's resources2
Are All Soils Created Equal? Make soil quality comparisons6
Alive and Thriving! Play a micro-farm game to learn what plants need10
Go to Seed! Welcome a classroom visitor to illustrate seed germination15
Sprout Yourself! Take a storytelling break18
Bark and Seeds for Breakfast Play a guessing game and snack on plant parts21
Who Grows Our Food?25
What Is Locally Grown? Map the sources of the food you eat26
Old-Fashioned Food Conduct a mini-oral history project31
Once Upon a Farm Take a storytelling break: visit the agricultural life gone by35
Visiting a Grower Organize a field trip to an "outdoor classroom"39
Figuring Out Our Food System Create a food system collage44
The ART in AgRiculTure Harvest a crop of poems48
Choosing Food for Body & Soul51
Choosing for Health52
Dear Diary... Keep a food and health diary53
Pyramids Near You Plan a regional menu using the food pyramid59
Anatomy in Action Build a model digestive tract63
Read the Small Print Practice consumer skills67
What Are "Whole Foods"? Differentiate between processed and unprocessed foods71
Pick a Food, Any Food Classify a "typical" diet using a Venn diagram75
French Fries and Couch Potatoes Analyze television's influence on food choices78
Sugar Detectives Find the sources of hidden sugar in common foods83
What If All I Ate Were Potato Chips? Examine the consequences of food choices in a "typical" diet87
Feast for the Eyes Design food for beauty--way beyond ants on a log!91
Choosing for Taste93
The Global Staff of Life Bake with whole grains94
Guess with Gusto! Play a guessing game to experience the range of senses99
Taste Buds Rule Explore the sweet, the sour, the bitter, the salty, and "umami"102
Oodles of Noodles Compare, then prepare a pasta meal105
What's for Lunch? Travel the Internet to learn about lunch around the globe110
Traditions at the Table Trace the roots of different food traditions and customs113
Choosing for Costs116
Dollars and Sense Calculate and compare prices based on nutrients117
Farm to Table Calculate the travel costs for foods you consume123
Dear Diary ... Again Reviewing our food and health diary128
Putting "Garbage" To Work131
Tracking Food Waste132
It All Adds Up Chart your lunchroom's food waste133
Lunch at the Dump Tour a landfill, transfer station, or recycling facility138
Recycled Art Create puppets using recycled objects143
A Worm's-Eye View of Composting147
Vermicomposting Basics Sidebar148
Vermi-Condos Build a small-scale "worm farm" for classroom observations153
What Worms Want How to make authentic vermicompost in the classroom157
Compost Creatures and Friends Play Worm Bin Bingo and make a Worm Bin Field Guide164
Black Gold: A Small Business Lesson Composting for change!170
Let's Grow Our Own173
Room to Grow Imaginary play activity provides review of garden basics174
Vegetable Pop-Up Puppets Make vegetable puppets that "grow"!179
What Does Your Garden Grow? A review of practical hands-on garden basics181
The Real Dirt Sidebar184
Grow a Row Sidebar187
The Classroom Is Sprouting Observe seed germination close-up!190
Sow Many Seeds! Celebrate diversity and variety in the garden195
Theme Gardens Sidebar198
How to Keep a Good Thing Going Preserving food for later200
Soil Made My Supper! Dramatize the food cycle through a "Theater in the Round"203
Appendix207
Glossary207
Commoner's Laws of Ecology212
Ten Steps for Taking Action214
Food Security and Food Recovery215
Making Food with Children217
Selected Nutrition Information219
What Do We Have in Common with Plants?221
Dietary Guidelines223
Creating a Recycled Sock or Nylon Wiggler Puppet225
Bibliography228
Index249
Finale: The Salad Garden Cafe and a Salsa Fiesta!255

What People are Saying About This

Chris Gill

Want to help kids plant a rainbow garden? Build a worm condo? Understand how much sugar one cola contains? This is the book for you. A Hands-on Resource for Educators is the subtitle of this teaching manual. Food choices affect not only personal health but also local economics and global environmental concerns. You can lead children to consider ways to create a healthier and more sustainable future. Authors Patten and Lyons have been using these concepts and methods in their teaching since 1995 when they started a pilot project with funding from the USDA's Food & Consumer Service. Four sections cover where food comes from, food choices and nutritional issues, putting garbage to work, and growing your own food. Lessons are keyed to the "Benchmarks for Science Literacy" with each lesson providing goals, key points, background information, instructions, and other helpful resources. Sprinkled throughout the sections are hands-on activities like making pizza dough and constructing worm condos. From Agriculture to Zoo Gardens, this manual can support your classroom efforts to bring a greater awareness of food and nature to your students. 2003, Tilbury House Publishers, Ages 5 to 12. --Chris Gill

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