Learn how to grow food inside your classroom, activities to do outside, and how to interact with food all through the year.
Lessons are organized based on the preparation difficulty, taking into account the time needed, necessary equipment, and cost. This categorization is not based on student ability and all lessons can be adapted for any grade level to enjoy.
Beginner = 🍏 Intermediate = 🍏🍏 Experienced = 🍏🍏🍏
Students will learn about pollinators and pollination as they make wildflower seed bombs.
Teacher Resource
Wildflower Seed Bomb Lesson Plan
Lesson Breakdown
+ Difficulty: 🍏
+ Class size: 25 students
+ Duration: 1 class
+ Curricular Connection: Science and ADST
This activity involves learning about edible weeds in the schoolyard, thinking about the ecosystem services they provide, and incorporating Indigenous principles.
Teacher Resources
Kamloops Edible Schoolyard Weeds presentation
Student Handout
Lesson Breakdown
+ Difficulty: 🍏🍏🍏
+ Class size: 25 students
+ Duration: 45 mins
+ Curricular Connections: Science and ADST
Create mini-greenhouses, plant herbs and watch them grow on your window sill!
Teacher Resource
Windowsill Herb Garden Lesson Plan
Lesson Breakdown
+ Difficulty: 🍏🍏
+ Duration: 1 class
+ Curricular Connections: Science
This four-week lesson series involves students growing, observing, and harvesting trays of salad greens inside their classrooms. Students will also learn more about how seeds grow, the edible parts of a plant, and edible seeds.
Teacher Resources
Salad Greens Lesson Plan
Extension: Bean Experiment
Planting Demonstration
Student Handouts
How does a seed grow?
Salad Greens Observation
Tasting Salad Greens
Bean Experiment: Growing Variable Template
Lesson Breakdown
+ Difficulty: 🍏🍏🍏
+ Class size: 25 students
+ Duration: 4 weeks
+ Curricular Connections: Science, PHE and ADST
Developed in partnership with Joanne Nicklas of the Kamloops Beekeeping Club. In this active lesson, students will learn about the decline of one of our well known pollinators – the honey bee.
Teacher Resources
Decline of the Honey Bee Lesson
Answer Key
Student Handouts
Student Graph (double-sided)
Activity Cards (cut in advance)
Lesson Breakdown
+ Difficulty: 🍏🍏🍏
+ Class size: Any
+ Duration: 40 min
+ Curricular Connections: Science, Math, and First People’s Principles