Suggested Resources: K-12 Education
(Updated February 12, 2007)

[This growing list of curricular and community resources represents the suggestions of more than 50 educators and community members who have come together to discuss and address topics and issues related to food, farming, culture and education. It is by no means exhaustive.]

Program Partners
Trust for Working Landscapes
Laughing Crow Farm
Foodmuse Inspired Catering
Bainbridge Island School District
Bainbridge Island Vineyards and Winery

Grades K-4

Literature

• A Salmon for Simon
• A Time of Wonder, by R. McCloskey
• Farmer Boy, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Hungary Caterpillar and other books by Eric Carle
• Local plant guide
• Local wildlife guide
• Plants That Never Ever Bloom
• Shelter
• Worm Ate My Garbage
  

Other Sources

• Botany with Children, 4H Curriculum
• “The Savage Garden” National Geographic K-8 (Film)
  
• Farmer’s Market (Field Trip)
  
• www.Gardenmosaics.org
  
• www.laptoplunches.com (waste-free lunches, school lunch reform)
• Geoduck Song
• Inch By Inch (song)
• Peanut Butter & Jelly (song)
• Resources for a Three Sisters Garden (corn, bean, squash)
• Rot & Roll (CD), by Eco Troubador (http://www.stanslaughter.com/)
• Storypath (social studies curriculum)
• Zipguides (http://www.enature.com/zipguides/)

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Grades 5-8

Literature

• 4-H curriculum (K-12)
  
• Bridge to Teribithia (about farming family)
• Earth Democracy, Dr. Vandana Shiva (5-12)
• Jessie De La Cruz, A Profile of a United Farm Worker, by Gary Soto
• Roots, Shoots, Bucket & Boots, by Sharon Lovejoy
• Rethinking Curriculum Guides
• The Rights of the Child published by Amnesty Int’l 2005
• Sharing Nature with Children (and other titles), by Joseph Cornell
• Start with the Soil (7-12)
  
• Summer of the Monkeys, by Wilson Rawls (about farming experience)
• The Circuit (about migrant workers)
• Education Guides for Teachers, Amnesty Int’l

Other Sources

• 4-H Program, through WSU Extension (curriculum for gardening with youth)
• Alice Waters & Edible Schoolyard Project
• Approaching WTO Education (a curriculum guide for grades 6-12 created by Puget Sound area educators to help teach and learn about the WTO in Seattle, features still relevant lessons on Free & Fair Trade, Apples, Tuna, and Beef) http://www.washington.edu/wto/classroom/curriculum.html
• Hamilton-Trust.org.uk (health related lesson plans)
• Jamie Oliver’s School Lunch (TV Series, British)
• MarcoPolo-Education.org (health related lesson plans)
• Rethinking Globalization, Edited by Bill Bigelow & Bob Peterson (chapter called “Just Food” with readings and lessons for secondary students
• Work of Maya Lin
  
• www.gardenmosaics.com
  
  

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Grades 9-12

Literature

• Agroecology, by Steven Gleissman
• Cry The Beloved Country, by Alan Paton (they build a dam to sustain farming)
• Continuum Concept, by Jean Leidhof
• Earth Democracy, Dr. Vandana Shiva (5-12)
  
• Facing the Future Curriculum Handbook
  
• Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech
• Harvest, by Peter Pringle
• Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, Edited by Barry Lopez & others
• Jessie De La Cruz, A Profile of a United Farm Worker, by Gary Soto
• On Good Land, by Michael Ableman
• Refuge, by Terry Tempest Williams
• Salmon Boy (poem), by David Whyte
• The Unsettling of America, by Wendell Berry
  
• Industry Special Publications: most industries have magazines that talk about problems and breakthroughs etc.
  
• Man on Earth
  
• There’s a Hair in My Dirt, by Gary Larson
  
• Wangari Maathai: Nobel Peace Prize winner
  
• Whole Earth Catalog

Other Sources

• Approaching WTO Education (a curriculum guide for grades 6-12 created by Puget Sound area educators to help teach and learn about the WTO in Seattle, features still relevant lessons on Free & Fair Trade, Apples, Tuna, and Beef) http://www.washington.edu/wto/classroom/curriculum.html
• Community service opportunities in community gardens
• Ecological Footprint (website)
• Rethinking Globalization, Edited by Bill Bigelow & Bob Peterson (chapter called “Just Food” with readings and lessons for secondary students
• Stream Team, through Kitsap County & Val Kohler
• Food Coops
  
• Organic Consumers Association, nonprofit for advocacy of public information
  
• www.climatechallenge.org
  
• www.wiretapmag.org
  www.organicconsumers.org
• thenation.com/student 

ALL GRADES

Literature

• Chew on This, by Eric Schlosser & Charles Wilson
• Last Child in the Woods
• The Man Who Planted Trees, Jean Giorno
• Worms Eat My Garbage

Other Resources

• Bainbridge Island Historical Society (source material, research projects, and museum tours)
• Bring your students to Laughing Crow Farm!
• Connection with Art: study work of Van Gogh, Cezanne, etc.
• Field trip to Pheasant Field Farm
• The Earth Charter (“values, principles for a sustainable future”, www.earthcharter.org, with website for children)
• Salmon raising project in schools
  
• Seattle Tilth (Field Trip)
  
• Pike Place Market (Field Trip)
  
• Farm-to-table
  
• UW Herb Garden (Field Trip)
  
• Pea Patches
  
• WSU Extension office
  
• Helpline House Foodbank (Field Trip)
  
• Ft. Ward Fish farm (Field Trip)
• Field Trip to T&C or Central Market
  
• Field Trips: Regional/neighborhood farmer’s markets
  

Other Suggested Resources
General

Highlights from Past Programs
October 26, 2006, Bainbridge Island Dialogue

December 5, 2006, Bainbridge Island Dialogue

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