Want to know how to do food and agriculture education in kindergartens? The operation manual revealed: Little Farmer Fun Market operation manual revealed: Little Farmer Fun Market

Text / A Mao Shi (Manager of the NCHU Organic Farmers' Market) Food and agriculture education courses have become increasingly popular in recent years. Paired with the once-a-week organic nutritious lunch at primary and secondary schools of all levels, many courses and lesson plans have been developed. But what about preschool kindergartens? How should food and agriculture education courses be carried out there? The food and agriculture education course workshop held by National Chung Hsing University for kindergarten teachers allowed teachers from all over Taiwan, China who are concerned about food and agriculture education to gain a preliminary understanding of how food and agriculture education courses can take root in kindergartens.

The Department of Early Childhood Development and Education at Chaoyang University of Technology and the NCHU Organic Farmers' Market, which held the workshop, drew on their two years of course cooperation experience with kindergartens in central Taiwan, China to compile these courses into the "Little Farmer Fun Market - Kindergarten Organic Food and Agriculture Education Course Operation Manual," enabling kindergarten teachers to gradually implement food and agriculture education courses based on the relevant lesson plans and core spirit. (To download the full electronic text, please click here)

The manual helps teachers quickly get started with food and agriculture courses

This kindergarten food and agriculture education course operation manual was authored by the NCHU Organic Farmers' Market. The market has been involved in semester-based food and agriculture education course planning since the 102nd year of the Republic of China. Starting last year, it began course cooperation and promotion in kindergartens, and has now reached 9 schools.

The content of the course manual collects the experience of implementing courses in kindergartens over these 2 years, allowing teachers willing to implement the courses to quickly and easily get started with course implementation. If paired with a local farmers' market or agricultural professionals, it becomes even easier and more relaxed to integrate food and agriculture education into regular teaching activities during course implementation and achieve the course goals.

Speaking of the original intention behind the design of this manual, market manager Yang Wenren pointed out: "At the beginning, we hoped to create a course that would allow farmers' markets all over Taiwan, China to participate together, connecting local markets with schools." Compared with the lack of agricultural resources in urban schools, farmers from the production areas can easily provide such assistance. Whether it is the materials needed for the course or seeds and seedlings, or even their professional knowledge, they can all provide