Since 2010, we have supported Pre-K-12 students with Food Education that is part of teachers’ classrooms and fosters informed food choices.
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Jun
22
Quiz for a Cause at Pilot Project
7:00 PMPilot Project Brewing - 2140 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
⭐ Today`s Fellow Friday spotlight is on: Ms. Woods! @dvorakschool
🌱 Ms. Woods is a member of the first "Feeding Futures" 2-year teaching cohort, a group of educators dedicated to bringing food and agriculture education to students across the state of Illinois. Currently, the Feeding Futures fellows are working on designing a new curriculum grounded in Pilot Light`s Food Education Standards that will offer students a comprehensive understanding of food, agriculture, and career pathways in these fields.
📣 Ms. Woods` Food Advocacy Project:
Dvorak School Of Excellence’s 8th grade students focused on natural selection in a food desert as their advocacy project. Students studied the short and long-term effects of living in food a desert versus living in food oasis. Sixth and seventh graders took the eighth graders research a little bit further by studying a few of the most prominent health ailments in the community.
After their research was completed, middle school lead their community in taking preventative and proactive measures. They displayed their work in the hallways of their school and donated some of their advocacy posters to local community organizations. Students posters gave healthier alternatives to some of our favorite cultural foods, promote physical activity, listed several gardens/ organizations in the nearby area where fresh fruit, and vegetables were available affordable, and even some with an option for delivery. Students also gave a tutorial of how to properly monitor blood pressure to both children and adults.
As their legacy project, middle school has left this garden behind for the next generation of leaders, and young explorers. It is a place where we gather, heal, eat, and grow.
👏Thank you for bringing Food & Agriculture Education to your community, Ms. Woods!
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Just a little farmer`s market love to start off our summer 🥰 Let us know which farmer`s market vendors you`ll be visiting this year! ⬇
