Supplementary Materials — Alana Siegner

Supplementary Materials and Teacher Resources

Teacher/Educator Food + Climate Reading List (view/download here).

Climate curriculum/videos:

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Facing the Future- Climate Change: Connections and Solutions curriculum

Global Warming’s Six Americas presentation
Alliance for Climate Education (ACE) assembly- 1 hour climate change edutainment assembly for high school students
Katharine Hayhoe “Global Weirding” PBS series
NASA computer model visualization of global CO2 rise

Food, farming, and sustainable ag:

4 per 1000 | Soils for food security and climate Human activities release enormous quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This intensifies the greenhouse effect and accelerates climate change. The world soil contains 2 to 3 times more carbon than the atmosphere.

Center for Ecoliteracy resource on “Understanding food and climate change:” https://foodandclimate.ecoliteracy.org/interactive-guide/cover.xhtml
COMET Farm Planner- online tool to quantify GHG reductions from certain farming practices.
Climate Resilience Assessment Plan for Farms (credit: MESA and Dr. Clara Nichols)
School garden soil sampling- Soil Carbon Coalition challenge and new “Soil Health and Watershed Function” curriculum (http://soilcarboncoalition.org/learn)
- Contact person: Didi Pershouse- didi.pershouse@gmail.com
- For more on soil sampling, consult these fact sheets from Cornell Department of Crop and Soil Sciences: Guide to Soil Testing, Soil Contaminants and Best Practices for Healthy Gardens, Sources and Impacts of Soil Contaminants
Edible Schoolyard Project- hosts Summer Institute in Berkeley, CA for teachers and posts curriculum and lesson guides on website
Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture- high school education and teacher training programs held at the Center in New York state
Soil C 4 per Mille Initiative: Soils for Food Security and Climate (launched at COP 21), website includes videos and infographics
Environmental Science Journal for Kids website- peer-reviewed scientific journal articles on many environmental topics that have been modified into age-appropriate articles for MS/HS, and come with a set of teacher resources including PowerPoints, Kahoot quizzes, and Jeopardy game trivia. Food specific articles include:
- How do plants keep in touch?
- How are apple farmers responding to climate change?
- How hot can corn handle it?
- What kind of fungus are you?
- Where will plants migrate when it gets warmer?
- How much does it cost when cows burp?

Spreadsheet of additional resources, videos, and climate curricula available for download here.

*Grants available annually through USDA Farm to School grants program to support educational activities utilizing school gardens.