Agriculture education in the middle school years offers all content area teachers the opportunity to engage students in food system studies, cultural and diversity exploration and natural resource/environmental sciences. Excellent curriculum can be found for these grade levels on the following sites. In addition, MAEF can assist teachers in customing or modifying existing curriculum to incorportate important aspects of agriculture and environment.

Waldorf School of Baltimore helps install a new hedgerow to provide pollinator habitat and shallow ground water filtration at Eden Mill Nature Center’s sustainable agriculture field project. 2010

National Ag In The Classroom maintains an excellent Resource Directory, an indexed lesson menu so you can choose appropriate grade-level material referenced by content area and grade:

www.agclassroom.org/ (Teacher Center Tab then select Lessons)



The Center for Food and Environment at the Teacher's College of Columbia University is a rich resource. In addition to the LIFE curriculum packages, the CF&E offers teachers access to a range of published literature and research studies.

http://blogs.tc.columbia.edu/cfe/about-us/



YES! Magazine provides teachers with many ideas, lessons and project ideas which engage students in sustainability, social justice, food systems, agriculture, and community service. YES! Offers a free one-year subscription for teachers.

www.yesmagazine.org/



The Sustainable Table serves up many resources for teachers who are interested in teaching sustainability, local agriculture and local food systems, agricultural/environmental responsibility.

http://www.sustainabletable.org/schools/



From the website for the Environmental Literacy Council:

"For more than a decade, the Environmental Literacy Council has been dedicated to helping teachers, students, policymakers, and the public find cross-disciiplinary resources on the environment. an independent, 501(c)3 organiztion, the Councile offers free background information on commone environmental science concepts; vetted resources to broaden understanding; and curricular materials that don't tell teachers how to teach, but give them the tools to augment their own backgrounds- no matter what their current knowledge."

http://www.enviroliteracy.org/



The Center for Eco-Literacy provides teachers with in-depth sustainability education to include food, nutrition, healthy communities and nature education. Resources include classroom-ready strategies which demonstrate sustainability in practice.

http://www.ecoliteracy.org/