Edible Social Studies

 
 

EDIBLE SOCIAL STUDIES

Our school-day Edible Social Studies program is designed to help students make a personal connection to the arc of human history and culture. Each grade-level unit is aligned with the California Department of Education’s History Social Science Framework. From learning in kindergarten about what healthy bodies need to survive and thrive to eating our way through the history of San Francisco in third grade to considering how our food choices affect climate change in fifth grade, cooking and eating together is a powerful way to bring the academic content standards to life. No matter the grade, our conversations in the kitchen classroom center around the work that has come before us and the work we must continue to do to achieve food justice and food sovereignty for all people.

sample kindergarten lessonHealthy Bodies, Healthy Communities Unit

sample kindergarten lesson

Healthy Bodies, Healthy Communities Unit

sample first grade lessonEverybody Cooks Rice Unit

sample first grade lesson

Everybody Cooks Rice Unit

sample second grade lessonFarmworkers Movement Unit

sample second grade lesson

Farmworkers Movement Unit

sample third grade lessonHistory of San Francisco in Seven Meals Unit

sample third grade lesson

History of San Francisco in 10 Meals Unit

sample fourth grade lesson

Indigenous Foodways of Present-day California Unit

sample fifth grade lesson

The Food System and Climate Change Unit