Pathway to the Plate 

and Beyond

 

King Middle School, Portland

grade 7, 2019 - 2020

 

Do YOU know where your food comes from? 

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These 7th graders do! In this project based unit they spent months researching the four food "pathways."  They visited a local Maine farm where they gathered eggs and saw a calf being born. They picked apples and weeded garden beds at a community garden, tabulated data on recycling at the local university cafeteria, and studied high tech methods of industrial farming. 

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The Side X Side mural that resulted from all this learning is displayed proudly in the school cafeteria...of course!

 

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Mural materials: acrylic paint and permanent marker on birch ply panels

 

collaborators: Side x Side, Cumberland County Food Security Council, University of Southern Maine, Northbound Ventures, We Compost It!, Cultivating Community, and Tortilleria Pachanga

 

grant support: the Lennox Foundation and the  Horizon Foundation

 

photo credit: Side x Side