National Farm-To-School Site

Farm to School programs are popping up all over the U.S. These programs connect schools with local farms with the objectives of serving healthy meals in school cafeterias, improving student nutrition, providing health and nutrition education opportunities that will last a lifetime, and supporting local small farmers.

• Maryland Farm-2-School Main Web Site
• Brochure for Teachers Farm Brochure
• Hear Governor O'Malley's Buy Local Radio Spot!
• Text of Maryland Farm To School Bill
  SENATE BILL 158   HOUSE BILL 696
• Maryland Department of Agriculture 
• Maryland's Best Web Site
• Maryland Cooperative Extension Services
• Chesapeake Choices  Lessons and recipes from Arlington Echo Outdoor School, Anne Arundel County Public Schools. Contact: Suzanne Kilby (SKilby@AACPS.org)

 PROJECT IDEAS

• The Eat Local Challenge     
• How to Pack Waste-Free Lunches
• The 100 Mile Diet - Project for all students
  
  

LESSON & ACTIVITY IDEAS

• How to Incorporate Gardening into Kindergarten and First Grade
• Feeding Planet Earth Lessons Grades 3-6
  CropLife Ambassador Network
  Linked to National Social Studies and Science Standards
• Amazing Grazing - Sample Lesson- from Food, Land & People
• Aisle Hopping - Sample Lesson- from World Wildlife Federation
• Center for Food and the Environment   Grades 4-6  
  Sample lesson; Purchase required
• The Linking Food and the Environment (LiFE) Curriculum Series
  Growing Food     Farm to Table and Beyond    Food & Health      Choice, Control, & Change
• Where Does Your Food Come From?
• Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation (MAEF)   LESSONS
   Ag Mobile; classroom resources and teacher training opportunities
  Through field trips, tours and hands-on workshops, interactive training for K-12 grade teachers demonstrates how to infuse agricultural concepts into existing curriculum and meet Maryland State Standards.  Teachers receive numerous resource materials and ready to use lessons in the workshops.  Students receive direct agricultural training as the mobile science labs visit schools across the state

For middle school and high school - Free lessons and videos
National Science Standards Links: 
Module 1: Understanding Bacteria
Module 2: Farm
Module 3: Processing and Transportation
Module 4: Retail and Home
Module 5: Outbreak and Future Technology

  PBS: World Without Oil Series
                                     Lesson 6: Food Without Oil

BBC Where to Shop?