Appendix
Implementing District Standards
Connecting Food Preservation: From Edible School Garden to Science Table lessons to Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Environment and Ecology and the Common Core State Standards
The Common Core State Standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in life. With American students fully prepared for the future, our communities will be best positioned to compete successfully in the global economy. Pennsylvania Department of Education has not adopted Common Core Standards for Science.
Pennsylvania Science Standards for Environment and Ecology. The follow is acceptable for my unit.
4.4.4.A. Describe the journey of local/global agricultural commodities from production to consumption.
4.4.4.B. Describe how humans rely on the food and fiber system.
4.4.3.B. Explain how agriculture meets the basic needs of humans.
4.4.3.C. Use scientific inquiry to investigate what animals and plants need to grow.
4.4.4.D. Identify how technology affects the development of civilizations through agricultural production.
Next Generation Science Standards also has appropriate standards that meet my unit’s needs.
2-PS1-4. Construct an argument with evidence that some changes caused by heating or cooling can be reversed and some cannot.
5-PS1-2. Develop a model to describe that matter is made of Particles too small to be seen.
5-PS1-4. Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.
Food Preservation: From Edible School Garden to Science Table lessons embrace the idea of preparing young students to be ready for the real world. Part of the world they are inheriting is a world with a food system that is threatening both our personal health and the health of the natural environment. My intention for this unit was to inspire students like Ja’lynn to use food and our current food system as a topic in the preservation of food.
Footnote: http://static.pdesas.org/content/documents/academic_standards_for_environment_and_ecology.pdf
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