Books & Curriculum

To order books from FSI, please contact Bookmasters, our contract distribution service, at 1-800-247-6553 or e-mail order@bookmaster.com. We will appreciate knowing the name and location of the school where you plan to use the curriculum. Please fill out our form online or send us an e-mail message.

Food is Elementary (FIE) Curriculum

 

Designed for teachers and volunteer food educators, this book contains 28 sequential (and 8 supplemental) lessons with age-appropriate lesson plans for pre-K through adults in addition to equipment lists and "how to" guidelines. The USDA food pyramid (required in public schools) and basic nutritional principles are featured. Academic disciplines including art, geography, history, language arts, mathematics, science, and writing are integrated into lessons. Each lesson plan can be taught in a one-hour class, or topics may be selected for presentation in shorter time periods. All lessons are participatory: students and parents use all five senses to study whole foods, cook, create art, plant seeds, and write in journals. Students prepare and consume cold food in the first semester and hot international entrees in the second semester. The eight additional lessons feature hot international entrees.

 

• Pre-K through adult
• 28 lesson plans
• Meets state education requirements
• Implements USDA guidelines

 

Now available to order online!

 

 

 

Food Education 100 Years Ago

A look at early innovations by Ellen Richards and John Dewey is featured. Their use of food to teach many disciplines is described in detail. Currently out of print.

 

 

Hot Lunch

 

 

 

 

A History of the School Lunch Program by Antonia Demas, Ph.D.(2000). Written for food educators, parents, food service staff, and anyone else who is interested in the origins of school meals programs in Europe and the U.S.A. Topics featured include: European beginnings in the 1700s, nineteenth century movements, early U.S. school meal programs, World War I to 1946 school meal programs in the U.S.A., and school meal programs in the U.S.A. from the National School Lunch Act of 1946 to the present. An extensive bibliography is also included.

• 35 pages
• 8 1/2" x 11" tape binding

 

 

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Final Reports

Final reports summarizing and evaluating major research projects are available. These can provide a valuable guide for conducting your own research. If you are interested in purchasing one please contact FSI.

 

Cookbooks

FSI is currently developing a cookbook with Professor T.Colin Campbell, author of the China Study. FSI has collaborated with communities to make fundraising cookbooks illustrated by students. If you are interested in purchasing these please contact us.