Cook and prepare food with your students! These delicious snacks can be made by students with a range of food preparation skills, and adapted for your classroom. Recipes have been student and dietitian-tested and approved!
Turning our local harvest into foods that can be eaten all year round through freezing and dehydrating is delicious and a great hands-on life skill! Check out these lesson plans and try them out with your class.
Growing food with your classroom doesn’t need a big garden or a lot of space; learn to grow food inside your classroom, activities to do outside, and interact with food all through the year. Our lesson plans will show you how!
Teach students to be mindful of food waste and how it impacts the environment. Click below to find lessons to learn about the food system, how to do a classroom waste audit, how to reduce food waste, and more!
Hands On Food is a food literacy curriculum for elementary school teachers with recipes and lessons that focus on local food and a sustainable food system. The lessons can be used to teach students about how to grow and cook food, and how to minimize waste.
Food-based learning is a hands-on way to teach the BC curriculum including science, math, and more. Dig into the lessons and your students will be able to get their hands on food!
These lessons are targeted to Grades 4-7 but can be easily adapted for any grade (Kindergarten through Grade 12).
Food literacy is taught in many SD 73 schools in the Kamloops community; teachers and students in these three schools in particular have been instrumental in testing and developing these lessons.
Arthur Hatton Elementary grows microgreens in their classroom for local restaurants, and maintains a school community garden that they utilize in a variety of learning opportunities.
McGowan Elementary has many classes involved in cooking, composting and conducting waste audits, and has several chickens in the school courtyard!
Thompson River University Culinary Arts faculty partnered with SD 73 schools to enhance student learning in nutrition, food skills, and sustainable food systems.
Simone Jennings
Public Health Dietitian,
Interior Health
Sherry Stade
Health Promoting Schools Coordinator,
School District 73
Addie de Candole
Food Literacy Advisor,
Farm to School BC
Courtney Bruin
Teacher,
School District 73
Paul Denby
Teacher,
School District 73
Adam Florence
TRU Culinary Arts
Neil Whitmore
Curriculum Coordinator,
School District 73
Alexis Blueschke
Registered Dietitian,
ICS Mt Paul Community Food Centre
Jaimi Garbutt
Sustainability Coordinator,
City of Kamloops