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.
Lesson plans and activities
These teaching materials provide examples of how the school garden can be integrated into classroom teaching, across a broad range of subjects. Sample activities are shown.
We have created country specific learning activities that promote active learning with links to the national curricula.
For Fiji and the Maldives, targeted activities with curriculum links are available below.
Maldives
Maldives teaching activities with curriculum links
Fiji
Fiji teaching activities with curriculum links
*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: Other subjects
Fiji
Fiji school garden curriculum mapping
Solomon Islands
