This year we picked these four activity stations, which the students rotate through:
(1) Plant Part Relay Race
(2) Strawberry Parfait Making Snack Station
(3) Worm Bin Exploration
(4) Farm Riddles
Here's a picture from the Farm Riddles station-- students are presented with clues about a vegetable growing in the field and have to figure out which one it is and do a scientific drawing of it. This picture is courtesy of Travis E. Smith, who is doing a cool photography project you can check out at www.tesmithphoto.com.I've received tons of great feedback from teachers and parents, but nothing compares to elementary school students talking up which vegetables they've tried and what their favorites are. I heard a statistic once (you can find it somewhere in Raj Patel's book Stuffed and Starved) that suggested that for every $1 spent advertising healthy food to children, $500 was spent advertising to them for the unhealthy stuff. What I've realized is that assisting kids in experiencing where their food comes from is the ultimate in advertising 'healthy' as 'cool', and I couldn't be happier to be a facilitator.
