How to do food and farming education in kindergartens? The Little Farmer Fun Market operation manual revealed

Text / Amao Shi (Manager of the Xingda Organic Farmers Market)

Food and farming 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 farming education courses be carried out there? The food and farming education course workshop held by National Chung Hsing University for kindergarten teachers allowed teachers from all over Taiwan, China who care about food and farming education to gain a preliminary understanding of how food and farming education courses can take root in kindergartens.

The Department of Early Childhood Care and Education at Chaoyang University of Technology and the Xingda Organic Farmers Market, which held the workshop, drew on their two years of course cooperation experience with kindergartens in the central region to compile these courses into the "Little Farmer Fun Market - Kindergarten Organic Food and Farming Education Course Operation Manual," enabling kindergarten teachers to gradually implement food and farming 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 farming courses

This kindergarten food and farming education course operation manual was authored by the Xingda Organic Farmers Market. The market has been involved in semester-based food and farming education course planning since 102. Starting last year, it began cooperating on and promoting courses in kindergartens, and has now reached 9 schools.

The content of the course manual collects the experience of implementing courses in kindergartens over the past 2 years, allowing teachers who are willing to implement the courses to carry out course implementation quickly and easily. If it can be paired with a local farmers market or agricultural professionals, in class