VT FEED Teacher Units
Developed to Meet VT Educational Standards
Pre-K through Kindergarten
- Around the World Snack Cookbook - Explore the origins of healthy snacks! (2005)
- Healthy Choices/ Healthy Snacks (2004)
- Kindergarteners Are Sprouting: Growing, Nutrition, Food and Fun (2003)
- Healthy Choices Life Skills Curriculum Unit for Informed Decision Making (2003)
- Feed Me Fabulous Food (2003)
- Alburg’s Bread and Butter - Learn how to make Thanksgiving Corn Bread!(2003)
- Savvy Snacking at the Milton Early Education Program (2003)
1st Grade through 2nd Grade
- Read Your Way Through the Food Pyramid (2006)
- Healthy Snack Unit (2005)
- Grains: How to Grow, Process and Utilize (2005)
- Healthy Snacks Initiative (2005)
- Second Graders on the Rise (2004)
- Healthy Soils, Healthy Crops, Healthy Children…and Tulips Too (2004)
- Understanding Differences and Introducing New Foods Through
Literature and Music (2004) - Our Choice Our Community (2003)
- Not Just A Jack O’Lantern: Food, Farming, Nutrition, and Milton (2003)
- Fairy Tales, Farms, Food and Fun! The Little Red Hen Goes to Milton (2003)
- Life Cycles of Orange (2003)
- Exploring Plant Power – Parts of an Edible Plant (2003)
- From Seed to Plant to Plate: Growing Foods that Sustain our Communities (2003)
- Mother Earth, Manure and Me (2002)
- From Moo to You (2002)
- The Cycles of Life in Starksboro and Beyond (2001)
- A History of Food – Starksboro Robinson School (2001)
- Food for Thought (2000)
- Seeds and Cycles (2000)
3rd Grade through 4th Grade
- Food Ways of Hardwick (2005)
- Healthy Eating - Science/ Social Studies grades 2-4 (2003)
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Historical Foods of Vermont - Jay/Westfield (2000)
5th Grade through 6th Grade
- Guiding What We Eat (2006)
- The Mad River Valley: Stages of Evolution, Development, Growth and Learning Through Communities, Lifestyles and Interdependencies, Past and Present (2002)
- A-maizing Civilizations: A unit of study on the Maya, Inca and Aztecs and
their influence on society today (2000)
7th Grade through 8th Grade
- Origins of Civilizations and Agriculture: Integrating the study of food into a
7/8 grades World Geography - Ancient History Curriculum: Connecting ancient diets with locally grown foods (2004)
- Adapting FEED to Middle School Ancient History (2004)
- Food First: Launching the School Garden (2004)
- Comida Mexicana: Integrating Spanish language & culture with
traditional foods (2004) - Technology and Food (2003)
High School
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Global Hunger Banquet - Montpelier High School Health Class (2008)
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Taste of the Food Groups - Montpelier High School Health Class (2008)
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Into the Kitchen! Montpelier High School Health Class (2008)
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From Seed to Plate - Montplelier High School Health Class (2008)
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It's All About Squash - Montpelier High School Health Class (2008)
- Farm to Table: Helping to Grow Our Local Food System - Montpelier High
School Health Class (2008) -
Cooking Up Farm to Table - Montpelier High School Health Class (2008)
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Growing Our Local Food System - Montpelier High School Health Class (2008)
"It is so great that the students themselves are cooking up recipes with local foods and then delivering the taste tests to each classroom. It doesn’t get better."
-Val Simmons, Food Service Director Hardwick Elementary School
