The 4-H National Directory of Materials is a searchable database of educational materials currently available throughout the Cooperative Extension System. Here you will find 4-H individual and group project materials, volunteer and professional development materials, as well as many other resources. You can search by topic area or keyword, then click on...
Curriculum Resources
This focus area includes offerings and opportunities that support student learning on University campuses to advance healthy and sustainable food in the preK–12 setting.
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The Berkeley Food Institute seeks to transform food systems to expand access to healthy, affordable food and promote sustainable and equitable food production. BFI is empowering new leaders with the capacity to cultivate diverse, just, resilient, and healthy food systems. The institute implements research and educational programs linked to policy...
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The University of California CalFresh Nutrition Education Program (UC CalFresh NEP) operates through a joint agreement among the U.S. Department of Agriculture/Food and Nutrition Service, the California Department of Social Services CalFresh Program, and the University of California Cooperative Extension. UC CalFresh NEP consists of adult, family, and...
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CAFÉ fosters research, facilitates interactions with external clientele and funders, and disseminates scientific information to the public. It strengthens linkages with the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) as well as with other faculty working on issues relevant to agriculture (e.g., climate change, invasive species, economics of...
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Nutrition to Grow On is an innovative middle-school curriculum that offers teachers a direct link between the garden and nutrition education. The curriculum teaches children about nutrition and where their food comes from, by taking them through the steps of planting, maintaining, and harvesting their own vegetable garden.
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The Center serves as a resource for UCSC graduate and undergraduate students interested in topics including agroecology, urban agriculture, sustainable agriculture, and food security. The Center reaches academics, researchers, policy makers, students, and the general public through classes, conferences, public events, tours, and publications.
The...
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UC Davis established the Center for Nutrition in Schools (CNS) in response to the needs of teachers and administrators for nutrition education resources and professional development opportunities. CNS provides research-based nutrition education programs and resources that improve student health and assist students in achieving their full potential...
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The Shaping Healthy Choices Program is a multi-component, school-based intervention that was developed to improve children’s health. The program integrates activities within four components: nutrition education and promotion, family and community partnerships, foods available on the school campus with an emphasis on regional agriculture, and school...
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Food Matters provides resources for health care professionals to promote environmental health. Intended for families and communities, these resources include papers, brochures, and online videos featuring experts explaining issues pertaining to reproductive health and food. Its website includes links to relevant other resources.
Food Matters is a...
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Dig is a unique student group on the UCLA campus that focuses on using student-driven research and peer learning. Through Dig, students educate one another about food, activism, health, and sustainability. Dig also works to ensure that spaces like the garden at Sunset Canyon Recreation Center, near UCLA’s on-campus student housing, expand throughout the...
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The mission of the Edible Schoolyard Project is to build and share a national edible education curriculum for pre-kindergarten through high school. The program envisions gardens and kitchens as interactive classrooms for all academic subjects, and a sustainable, delicious, and free lunch for every student.
Their website includes lessons designed...
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Equity Eatz is a food justice and entrepreneurship curriculum that helps youth develop skills in culinary arts, product development, and marketing through the lens of the food industry. Through conceptualizing food access as a social justice issue, this curriculum encourages youth to adopt healthy nutrition practices and apply nutrition knowledge to food...
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The Expanded Food & Nutrition Education Program is a partnership of the University of California, the USDA, county governments, and California residents. The program's mission is to assist low-income youth and families with young children to acquire knowledge, skills, attitudes, and changed behavior necessary to choose nutritionally sound diets and...
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This curriculum helps support the education of pediatric, family physician, and medical-pediatric residents to promote the health of children and their families through healthy eating, optimal exercise, and emotional well-being.
It was developed by the UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health in collaboration with the American Academy of...
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The Food Justice curriuclum is designed to engage high school-aged youth in conversations about food environments, food as a social justice issue, nutrition, and the power of commercials and social marketing. Through exposure to concepts such as the food environment, food justice, nutrition concepts, media literacy, and social marketing, the youth are...
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The Food Studies graduate certificate program offers UCLA PhD, MA, and professional school students from diverse disciplines the opportunity to investigate complex topics spanning food cultures and histories, nutrition and public health, food policy and food justice, urban planning, and agrifood systems and the environment.
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The Garden Project facilitates collaboration among four UC Irvine community gardens to share resources, labor, gardening know-how, food, and fun. The project is building linkages with the broader Orange County community involved in sustainable food production, particularly in low-income communities.
The project aims not only to enrich student...
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The Greenhouse and Garden Project is an educational organization at UC Santa Barbara that welcomes students, faculty, and staff members to maintain their own plots to garden organically.
No pesticides or harmful chemicals can be used, providing a safe environment and teaching members alternative ways of gardening. Members are able to eat fruit off...
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The University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) provides non-formal educational opportunities to rural and urban youth and adults of all economic levels and ethnic backgrounds. Part of UCCE's mission is to develop culturally-sensitive outreach programs in family and consumer sciences, specifically targeted toward lower- and moderate-income...
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This educational and residential program is focused on experiential learning, sustainability, and food systems. PICA residents have the opportunity to grow their own food together, share meals, and explore ways to live more sustainably.
Sophomores, juniors, and seniors from disciplines across the social sciences, natural sciences, arts and...
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Students in the Public Health Nutrition concentration at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health will gain perspective on the following essential questions:
What are the most critical social, behavioral, and food- and nutrition-related factors that affect health?
What are ways that the design, implementation, and evaluation of programs can...
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R'Garden is open to UC Riverside students, faculty, staff, and community members, to grow fresh produce while learning about social, environmental, and economic sustainability through a food systems approach.
R’Garden is three acres that include a community garden, row crops, a Valencia orchard, and a greenhouse area. It serves as a sustainability...
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Seeds to Plate, based out of LAUSD's Mark Twain Middle School in Mar Vista, California, believes that school garden programs foster a deep understanding of academic subjects by connecting traditional content areas to the natural world. This academically integrated curriculum was created for sixth to eighth graders using the California Common Core, Next...
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The Student Farm at UC Davis is a community where students work to create, maintain, and explore sustainable food systems. At the farm, students grow in many ways, learning from seasoned field-based educators, from their peers, and from themselves. They come to understand sustainability through the soils, crops, climate, and community in which they work...
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SNaX is a school-based program that aims to empower students and families to make healthy decisions about nutrition and exercise. On their website, designed for students, parents, and community members, you will find SNaX materials (videos, parent worksheets, student advocate guides, and bookmarks) to help students learn fun facts about healthy eating...
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FFHI will lead the improvement of individual health through diet by acting as an engine for research, innovation, and economic development supported by competitive research programs, industry collaborations, and philanthropic funding. The Institute links diverse scientific disciplines across the colleges and schools of UC Davis, and develops regional and...
