Preparing Teachers for Back-to-School Season: Nutrition Advice
It’s easy to lose track of a nutritional diet when you’re a busy teacher balancing multiple hats while trying to keep up your energy.
Food and Nutrition
Farm Boy’s New ‘nourish to flourish’ Initiative for Healthier Schools
Farm Boy, a leading fresh food retailer in Ontario, is thrilled to announce its new Flagship Charitable Program, nourish to flourish.
Modern Home Ec: Stitching Together Key Life Skills
What we might think of as “home ec” now covers a wide variety of topics, like fashion and textiles, food and nutrition, human development, housing design, and more.
Making Rose Hip Tea from Scratch: A Math Activity
This collaboration between the Library Learning Commons, a Grade 9 math teacher, and Indigenous Education blossomed into a beautiful place-conscious learning opportunity.
Gardening Apps
There’s no better way to spend time outside in the summer than by tending to a garden. Use these apps for your own gardening, or with students to show them how much fun it can be.
Mrs. Kramer’s 1970s Childhood Challenge
It’s said that there is always a blessing in dark times, and this was it: my chance to share my 1970s childhood with 25 children of 2020.
Food Literacy
It’s important to make sure kids understand the difference between what’s healthy and what’s not. Field trips that teach about nutrition add value to their health and knowledge.
Hunger Pangs: Addressing Food Insecurity in Schools
While a range of programs aim to ensure kids have ready access to healthy meals throughout the school day, many K–12 students aren’t getting the food they need.
Lunch Police: Should Educators Get Involved?
Lunch box policing and food bans have been a hot topic in the past couple years. But do schools and educators have the right to tell students what they can and cannot eat?
The Birds & The Bees: Preventing Local Extinction
Teaching students about birds and bees is crucial to their survival—and this isn’t a topic only for health class.