Farm to Fork
Created by: Jenna Vine
C & I 371
Spring 2009
I designed my unit, Farm to Fork, through the backwards design process which speaker, Janel Anderson, recommended as an effective method to plan a unit. This design was extremely beneficial for me because it allowed me to think about the big ideas first, and then design interesting and innovative lessons to target the big issues.
The essential questions or big ideas this unit addresses are:
1. How do our food choices effect the environment, people, and animals?
2. How does the food we are eating get to our plate? More specifically, how are foods grown, raised, modified?
3. How can our food choices help us live more sustainably?
The big idea of this unit is getting the students familiar with where our food comes from. Often, people eat so fast that they don't stop to think about where that carrot came from or how that chicken got into that plastic bag. This unit explores a variety of crucial and somewhat controversial issues such as organic farming, eating local, concentrated animal farms, child labor, eating seasonably, and gardening.
In the following pages you will find my unit backwards design process, a unit outline, five lesson plans, and a bibliography of sources used.
