Reinventing the Meal
Adopt-a-Crop Unit
| Students carry out a small research project in which they identify a local food that they wish to study.
(This can be done randomly by having them take a name from a hat.) They are assigned to a designated local producer of that food, meet with the producer and, using a question quide, develop a presentation for their class to discuss the nutritional and economic value of this component of the local food system. This is followed by preparation of a recipe using that food. |
| Students are peer evaluated using a supplied rubric. |