My Own Food Chain

This My Own Food Chain curriculum explores the relationship between people and the food they eat. It aims to give children in grades K-2 a basic understanding of the flow of energy through the food chain, and the place of people in the food chain. If teachers complete the entire curriculum, their classes will explore food chains in nature, focusing on its individual links and looking at the flow of energy as a whole. Students will then look at the place of people in the food chain, and discover how people have appropriated nature's systems in agricultural practices – making the food chain our own. Classes will compare traditional and sustainable agricultural practices.

Contents (each section will open in a new window)

Introduction

1. Food Chain Introduction
2. Food Chain Detectives
3. Plant Needs of Life
4. Plant Party Party
5. Crop Diversity
6. Planning the Plot
7. Everyone has a Chore!
8. Nutrient Management
9. Sowing Seeds
10. Planting the Garden
11. Introduction to Insects
12. Integrated Pest Management
13. Studying Soils
14. Soil Erosion
15. Water Quality
16. Summer Sustenance
17. Harvesting the Garden
18. Alternative Marketing

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