Dirt to Dinner’s In the Classroom program provides ready-to-use lesson plans for students Grades 5-12 to explore every step in food production. Our standards-driven lessons will get your students engaged from the start, with every lesson featuring icebreakers, slides and media, and an immersive classroom activity that gets students thinking.

Each lesson covers a different aspect of the global food system, ranging from the Supply Chain that brings food to your table to the Nutrition Education we all need. We feature real-life examples of the work Farmers, Ranchers & Growers are doing every day and explore the exciting field of Green Innovations responding to a changing world.

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We’ve put together a set of preview lessons for each of our grade bands. Click on the links below to download a demo presentation.

Grades 5-8:

From Farm to Plate 

The journey food takes to our plates is full of surprises!

Our lesson starts out on the farm and follows key ingredients all the way to the pizza shop.

Grades 9-12:

Ploughing Ahead

Growing crops often starts with one fundamental tool: The Plough!

This lesson presents students with the surprisingly dynamic history of this vital farm implement and challenges them to innovate their own solution to a problem facing farmers.

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