Signature Salads
The most popular activity in FoodShare’s Field to Table Schools program , it gets students of all ages excited about fresh, healthy food as they make their own Signature Salad.
Posts from the ‘Activities’ Category
Apr 25
Mar 31
The Outers Club
Over its 40-year history, this extracurricular program of outdoor experiential education and community service has become a rite of passage for senior high school students in Atikokan, Ontario.
Mar 31
Water: Local Pollution, Global Confusion!
Activities for raising awareness of water quality problems and solutions, locally and globally, with middle school students.
Mar 30
Planet Transit: Profit or Survival?
A game of economic development choices and consequences for Grades 9 and up (ages 14+).
Mar 30
Stormwater Runoff: Understanding the Ecological Impacts of Changing Land Uses
In this unit for ages 10 to 14, students learn how land use changes can reduce the water quality of nearby lakes and streams, calculate runoff from their school grounds and investigate best management practices.
Mar 30
Field Backpacks: Keeping Track of the Tools of the Trade
Step-by-step instructions on how to construct and use homemade field backpacks for children 5 - 12.
Mar 30
Humane Education: A Foundation for Connecting with All of Earth’s Inhabitants
Activities to integrate humane values - especially the merits of kindness and empathy towards all creatures - into curricula for all grade levels.
Acting Out Energy Forms
A very active activity for grades K-8 which teaches about different forms of kinetic, potential, and renewable energy. Helps provide a context for teaching scientific principles related to energy transformations, chemical transformations, electricity and light, which are central to many clean energy technologies.
Apr 1
The “Who-Am-I” Project
A year-long independent set of tasks that gets middle school students thinking about their relationship with the natural world around them.
Apr 1
Environmental Education After-School Programs
As after-school programs gain in popularity, environmental educators have new opportunities to apply their expertise in a fun and flexible learning environment. The article offers environmental education lesson plans that program designers can easily integrate into their after-school programs.
