AIM Educational Website Resource Links

Lessons on the AIM educational resource page are directly from educational groups across the country, including organizations in the Bay Area. The educational resource page is a preliminary compilation of activities and lesson plans from partners and/or educators that align with AIM’s mission and values. Our goal in creating an educational resources page is not to create more educational tools, but rather foster a community space where educational tools that already exist can be accessed by students, educators and families to learn, grow and explore their food and food choices. Lessons are listed by grade level, and where available, Spanish language materials are included.

 
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Overall Resources:

Large educational resource collections for all grades
including lesson plans, recipes and games.

 
 

Educational Resources for
Spanish Speakers

 

Next Generation Standards

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are K–12 science content standards. Standards set the expectations for what students should know and be able to do. The NGSS were developed by states to improve science education for all students.
https://www.nextgenscience.org/


Common Core Standards

The Common Core is a set of high-quality academic standards
in mathematics and English language arts/literacy (ELA). These learning goals outline what a student should know and be able to do at the end of each grade.
http://www.corestandards.org/


California Agriculture in the Classroom Lesson
Activity by Grade

The California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating youth throughout California about the importance of agriculture in their daily lives.
https://learnaboutag.org/resources/lessons/
https://learnaboutag.org/resources/lessons_archive/

Recipes Per Season Per Grade

Growing Minds providing resources to schools, farms and educators about farm to table, recipes and lesson plans based in Appalachia.
https://growing-minds.org/get-local-at-school/


Kids Gardening Lesson Plans for Hands on Learning

An educational non-profit to support creating opportunities for kids to play, learn, and grow through gardening, engaging their natural curiosity and wonder.
https://kidsgardening.org/lesson-plans/


Nourishing Students

Enrichment Activities for grades K-5: Center for Ecoliteracy
https://www.ecoliteracy.org/sites/default/files/media/cel_nourishing_students_enrichment_activities.pdf


Gardening Vocabulary in Spanish

A Bilingual gardening dictionary for elementary schools and after-school gardening programs.
https://anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/pdf/8423.pdf (En Español)


Garden Education Resources for Spanish Speakers

National Farm to School Network: National Farm to School Network is an information, advocacy and networking hub for communities working to bring local food sourcing, school gardens and food and agriculture education into schools and early care and education settings. (En Español)

  • 1. Worm Condo Activity: California Ag in the classroom

    https://cdn.agclassroom.org/id/materials/build_worm.pdf

    2. Class Activity Exploring Apples and Farmers Markets: Growing Minds

    https://growing-minds.org/documents/apple-exploration-lesson-plan-2.pdf/

    3. Food Preservation: Kids Gardening

    https://kidsgardening.org/lesson-plans-food-preservation/

    4. My Farm Web: National Agriculture in Classroom

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1phHc1WHb0_cG8xPbPnlM2aNmeT0D5wUT/view

    5. Pollinator Observation: LIfe Lab (En Español)

    https://lifelab.org/2020/03/pollinator-observation/

  • 1. Worm Condo Activity: California Ag in the classroom

    https://cdn.agclassroom.org/id/materials/build_worm.pdf

    2. Class Activity Exploring Apples and Farmers Markets: Growing Minds

    https://growing-minds.org/documents/apple-exploration-lesson-plan-2.pdf/

    3. Food Preservation: Kids Gardening

    https://kidsgardening.org/lesson-plans-food-preservation/

    4. My Farm Web: National Agriculture in Classroom

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1phHc1WHb0_cG8xPbPnlM2aNmeT0D5wUT/view

    5. Pollinator Observation: LIfe Lab (En Español)

    https://lifelab.org/2020/03/pollinator-observation/

  • 1. Eating in Season: Scientific inquiry and learning about local food: Growing Minds

    https://growing-minds.org/lesson-plans/eating-in-season/

    2. Farming in a glove: National Agriculture in the classroom

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ml1I3ajNyr_mps1ZJXu0zKJr9vk7tvU7/view

    3. Plant Inspired Products: Kids Gardening

    https://kidsgardening.org/lesson-plan-plant-inspired-products/

    4. Eat a Rainbow: Kids Gardening

    https://kidsgardening.org/lesson-plans-eat-a-rainbow/

    5. The Purpose of Seed Banks: Kids Gardening

    https://kidsgardening.org/lesson-plan-seed-banks/

    6. Multi-step outdoor activity to teach about worms: Lawrence hall of Science

    https://beetlesproject.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Worm-Explorations.pdf

  • 1. Learn about landfills: Kids Gardening

    https://kidsgardening.org/lesson-plan-learn-about-landfills/

    2. Explore plant- soil relationship: Kids Gardening

    https://kidsgardening.org/lesson-plans-the-plant-soil-relationship/

    3. Exploring Hydroponics: Kids Gardening

    https://kidsgardening.org/lesson-plan-classroom-hydroponics/

    4. Growing from Food scraps: Edible School Yard

    https://edibleschoolyard.org/sites/default/files/Growing%20Food%20from%20Food%20Scraps_fillable.pdf

    5. Edible numbers: California Agriculture in the Classroom

    https://cdn.agclassroom.org/ca/resources/lesson/ediblenumbers.pdf

    6. Decomposition: Edible school yard (long term project)

    https://edibleschoolyard.org/resource/decomposition-cycle

  • 1. Learn about landfills: Kids Gardening

    https://kidsgardening.org/lesson-plan-learn-about-landfills/

    2. Explore plant- soil relationship: Kids Gardening

    https://kidsgardening.org/lesson-plans-the-plant-soil-relationship/

    3. Exploring Hydroponics: Kids Gardening

    https://kidsgardening.org/lesson-plan-classroom-hydroponics/

    4. Growing from Food scraps: Edible School Yard

    https://edibleschoolyard.org/sites/default/files/Growing%20Food%20from%20Food%20Scraps_fillable.pdf

    5. Edible numbers: California Agriculture in the Classroom

    https://cdn.agclassroom.org/ca/resources/lesson/ediblenumbers.pdf

    6. Decomposition: Edible school yard (long term project)

    https://edibleschoolyard.org/resource/decomposition-cycle

  • 1. Learn about landfills: Kids Gardening

    https://kidsgardening.org/lesson-plan-learn-about-landfills/

    2. Explore plant- soil relationship: Kids Gardening

    https://kidsgardening.org/lesson-plans-the-plant-soil-relationship/

    3. Exploring Hydroponics: Kids Gardening

    https://kidsgardening.org/lesson-plan-classroom-hydroponics/

    4. Growing from Food scraps: Edible School Yard

    https://edibleschoolyard.org/sites/default/files/Growing%20Food%20from%20Food%20Scraps_fillable.pdf

    5. Edible numbers: California Agriculture in the Classroom

    https://cdn.agclassroom.org/ca/resources/lesson/ediblenumbers.pdf

    6. Decomposition: Edible school yard (long term project)

    https://edibleschoolyard.org/resource/decomposition-cycle

  • 1. Plant companions: Kids Gardening

    https://kidsgardening.org/lesson-plans-growing-garden-companions/

    2. The Soil Story Curriculum – U.S. Edition.: Lessons designed to introduce youth to connections between soil, food, health and out climate- Kiss the Ground

    https://kisstheground.com/resources/

    3. 17 Lesson plans and activities covering food systems, farmers, factories and more Johns Hopkins center for a Livable Future

    https://www.foodspan.org/lesson-plans/

    4. Apple Genetics: National Ag in the Classroom

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X0MoN-2zwjM8ye6NBFpmpAbJb84PWWbB/view

    5. Exploring food forests: Kids gardening

    https://kidsgardening.org/lesson-plan-exploring-food-forests/

    6. Debate Plate- intro to food systems and impact of choices: Edible schoolyard

    https://edibleschoolyard.org/resource/debate-plate-introduction-food-systems-and-choices

  • 1. 40 maps of agriculture

    https://www.vox.com/a/explain-food-america

    2. Food value by State:

    https://cdn.agclassroom.org/id/materials/maps.pdf

    3. Explore tree rings: Kids Gardening

    https://kidsgardening.org/lesson-plan-tree-rings/

Videos for Ag Education

 

  1. Virtual Farm tours All grades geared towards younger youth

  2. Nourish short Videos: elementary age youth from Michael Pollan to farmers 

Kindergarten Video

  1. On the farm- farm animals

 
 
 

Second - Third Grade Videos

  1. Eating in season: Nourish

  2. Urban farms: nourish (1 min)

  3. Youth making change: nourish (1 min)

Fourth - Fifth Grade Videos

  1. Eating well food journey: nourish 

  2. Sustainability Next Generation of farmers

 
 
 

Middle School Videos

  1. The history of Farming and “Farm to table” (Nat Geo 20:42mins)

 
 

High School Videos

  1. Sustainability- The call of the land- the Next Generation of farmers

2. Food, Earth, Happiness.