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.

Royce Li knows of students who hadn’t cracked an egg before entering his Grade 11 class. “It’s shocking,” he says from Rick Hansen Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario where he teaches in the hospitality department. Students are used to meals from fast-food restaurants where products are often filled with unnecessary fats, sugars, and salt.

Let’s face it—most staff don’t willingly volunteer for cafeteria duty. But with a few thoughtful tweaks, lunch doesn’t have to be the noisiest, most dreaded 30 minutes of the day.

Part of creating a great outdoor space is about tailoring curriculum, and part is about landscape design.

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?

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.