Project: Food Insecurity Students learned about… Food scarcity in their local community, the needs of community members, local food supply,…
Project: Food Deserts Students learned about… Food deserts, public health/nutrition, racial inequity Students investigated needs related to… Food deserts in…
Fifth and sixth grade students began their project by hearing from community partners involved with Backyard Bounty of the Berkshires,…
In their social studies class, high school students read Ron Suskind’s A Hope in the Unseen. This book, which follows…
Students gained math skills and ecological understanding studying how best to reduce food waste in their school cafeteria. Working closely…
When students in Rob Lindsay’s class examined the school’s solid waste, they found that the cafeteria generated the majority of…
Fourth grade students at Cotuit Elementary School in Massachusetts were upset to learn that the school district had no student…
In their social studies class, sixth grade students studied the history of Africa, from ancient times to the present. During…
A pamphlet titled “Fast Food/Slow Food/Corporate Food/Local Food” can be found in several places around Kennebunk. It’s part of the…
Knowing that strawberries represent a valuable crop for local farmers and that the plants are vulnerable to flooding, students began…