School Garden Curriculum and Toolkits
Featured and recently created curriculum:
Food Experiences for Agricultural Science Training - FEAST
Remote island communities need agricultural science education to address important regional issues of food security and sustainability, but they lack accessible distance learning resources for students and teachers.
Booklets are available to teachers and parents, and are currently being offered discounted/free thanks to support from the USDA.
Visit the FEAST website to learn more and to order your class set today!
Created in collaboration with The Curriculum Research & Development Group (CRDG) at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, The Center for Getting Things Started (C4GTS), and Hawaii and Guam Farm to School Networks.
ʻUlu Education Toolkit
The ʻUlu Education Toolkit is meant to support educators in incorporating lessons about ʻulu into the classroom, school garden, and formal or informal learning environments. The Toolkit is designed as an interactive online database where educators and families can search and organize materials as needed by grade, subject matter, resource type, and/or academic standard. This curriculum created in collaboration with the Hawai‘i ‘Ulu Cooperative (HUC), Hawai‘i Farm to School Hui/Hawai‘i Public Health Institute, the STEMS² Program at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa College of Education, and other community partners.
CNSS Farm to School Resource Hub
The Child and Nutrition Services Site has created a searchable resource hub that “allows all USDA Farm to School granteesState agencies, and other partner organizations to seamlessly submit farm to school resources and training materials.”
The Hawaii Environmental Education Alliance
HEEA has an ongoing newsletter that features environmental education resources, grants for schools, and connects you to local environmental initiatives and events.
Children and Nature Network
This collection of free toolkits, reports, infographics and advocacy tools is designed to help you or your organization connect children, families and communities to nature.
Project Aloha ʻĀina
Grade 4: Ahupua‘a
Produced by the Pacific American Foundation
Life Lab
Life Lab has extensive resources for educators from curriculum to how to start a garden. This is one of our favorites!
A Handful of Seeds
Seed saving curriculum that can be used in a school garden project, as a part of an environmental education program and in outdoor or indoor classrooms.
National Environmental Education Foundation
Grade level: K-12
This is a great resource for environmental education materials. It includes an impressive array of environmental studies, videos, quizzes and other interactive features.
Agriculture in the Classroom
Grade level: PreK-12th grade Great site from the USDA with lots of helpful resources including lesson plans and STEM projects.
Mālama ʻĀina Foundation
Grade level: K-12 and college level
Education in science, math, and Hawaiian culture through project-based learning.
Center for Ecoliteracy
Excellent site with a collection of books, lessons, guides, recipes, videos, and other tools to support ecological education including Big Ideas, a standards-based curriculum created in partnership with National Geographic.