Help me give my students colored pencils to help those in need who use the OCS OWL Pantry.
$273 goal
This project expired on August 17, 2025.
This project expired on August 17, 2025.
My Project
Food Studies is an innovative and interdisciplinary semester-long course that inspires students to become food citizens, individuals who understand that their food choices have a meaningful impact on personal, environmental, and community health. The curriculum's interactive lessons explore food's relationship to culture, the environment, and power, integrating science, ELA, and social studies learning.
We will take a multi-faceted approach to learn about food through exposure to excellent writing about food, agriculture, and environmental sustainability, cooking labs that will help us learn through the preparation and tasting of food, and interactions with experts like farmers and other food producers through field trips to local institutions and farms.
The course has many objectives for participants: to understand food as a reflection of a society's values and priorities; to understand the importance of food as a foundation for individual, community, and environmental well-being; to understand food as an avenue to empowerment, citizenship, and social justice. The reading, analysis, discussion, writing, preparation, and enjoyment of food that takes place throughout the course provide the knowledge and experiences for participants to achieve these goals.
My students in Food Studies will participate in a year-long service-learning project- establishing a food pantry. Aside from food, we desperately need basic school supplies like colored pencils. Any support is greatly appreciated to empower and inspire my students to fight hunger and other needs in our school community especially those who are homeless.
More than a third of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
500 students impacted
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