Kitchen Garden Activities
A Living Classroom
School kitchen gardens offer rich opportunities for active learning. We have created a range of teaching materials that link to the school garden and composting to the classroom, that promote hands on learning for students.
This section is divided into 3 parts:
- Teaching ideas for lessons with specific links to each of the national curricula (e.g. Science, Maths, English, Health).
- Using children’s stories to teach about gardening and sustainability. Teaching materials are provided which includes a recording of the story, generic lesson plan, slide presentation and student worksheet.
- Curriculum mapping of each national curricula, providing ideas for how the school garden provides opportunities for learning across subjects.
Teaching activities
These teaching materials provide examples of how the school garden can be integrated into classroom teaching, across a broad range of subjects.
We have created country-specific teaching activities that promote active learning. Each activity includes detailed instructions, curriculum links, materials list and, where appropriate, slides and student worksheets.
For Fiji, the Maldives and the Solomon Islands, targeted activities with curriculum links are available.
Maldives
Fiji
Solomon Islands
Generic
*An example of the teaching and learning activity.
Children’s stories and school gardens
Below you can find children’s stories that link to gardening and sustainability. Teaching materials are provided which includes a recording of the story, generic lesson plan, slide presentation and student worksheet.
Curriculum Mapping
The curriculum mapping section shows how to make connections between garden activities and curriculum requirement. It demonstrates how the garden is not just a place to learn the practical skills of gardening – it is a great place to teach curriculum-specific topics, from biology to written expression. Gardening also builds interpersonal skills of teamwork, resilience and communication.
Explore the sample curriculum mapping for Fiji and the Maldives to see how you can link the school kitchen garden to your own school curriculum.
Maldives
Maldives school garden curriculum mapping: English
Maldives school garden curriculum mapping: Maths and Science
Maldives school garden curriculum mapping: Health, Social Science and Creative Arts
Fiji
Fiji school garden curriculum mapping
Solomon Islands
