Course curriculum

  • 1

    Sustainable Food Businesses

    • Welcome to the Health, Food and Agriculture Module

    • Talking Point: Social Entrepreneurs

    • Creating Food Security with Planting Justice

    • Questions for "Planting Justice" Video

    • Course Question 1 - Food

    • Talking Point: Food

    • Key Term: Food

    • Key Term: Food

    • Key Term: Nutrition

    • Key Term: Nutrition

    • Course Question 2 - Energetic or Sluggish

    • Key Term: Diet

    • Talking Point: Diet

  • 2

    Health

    • Course Question 3 - Family's Diet

    • Key Term: Health

    • Key Term: Health

    • Course Question 4 - Health

  • 3

    Water in the Body

    • Water in the Body

    • Course Question 5 - Water

  • 4

    Agriculture

    • Talking Point: Agriculture

    • Key Term: Agriculture

    • Talking Point: Approaches & Products

    • Making History of Agriculture

  • 5

    Industrial Agriculture

    • Key Term: Industrial Agriculture

    • Talking Point: Industrial Agriculture

    • Talking Point: Effects on Environment

    • Anna Lappé Food MythBusters

    • Video: "Industrial Agriculture" Questions

    • Possible Answers

    • Course Question 6 - Sustainable Agriculture

    • Possible Answers

  • 6

    Sustainable

    • Talking Point: Industrial Agriculture

    • Course Question 7 - Farmers

    • Key Term: Sustainable

    • Key Term: Sustainable

    • Key Term: Sustainable Agriculture

    • Key Term: Sustainable Agriculture

    • Talking Point: Sustainable Agriculture

    • Key Term: Biodiversity

    • Key Term: Biodiversity

    • Talking Point: Biodiversity

    • Key Term: Crop Diversity

    • Key Term: Crop Diversity

    • Talking Point: Crop Diversity

  • 7

    Crop Rotation

    • Key Term: Crop Rotation

    • Key Term: Crop Rotation

    • Talking Point: Crop Rotation

    • Key Term: Nutrient Recycling

    • Key Term: Nutrient Recycling

    • Talking Point: Nutrient Recycling

    • Activity: Identifying the Plant Nutrient Cycle

    • Activity: Identifying the Plant Nutrient Cycle

  • 8

    Getting Water to Crops

    • Key Term: Dry Land Farming

    • Key Term: Dry Land Farming

    • Talking Point: Dry Land Farming

    • Key Term: Irrigation

    • Key Term: Irrigation

    • Talking Point: Irrigation

    • Course Question 8 & 9 - Irrigation Methods and Your Neighborhood

    • Possible Answers

    • Talking Point: Food in Stores

  • 9

    Food System

    • Key Term: Food System

    • Key Term: Food System

    • Talking Point: Food System

    • Key Term: Local Food System

    • Key Term: Local Food System

    • Course Question 10 - Food System

    • Talking Point: Local Food System

    • Course Question 11 - Cultural Foods

  • 10

    Industrial Food System

    • Key Term: Industrial Food System

    • Key Term: Industrial Food System

  • 11

    Sustainable

    • Key Term: Sustainable

    • Key Term: Sustainable

    • Key Term: Sustainable Food System

    • Key Term: Sustainable Food System

    • Talking Point: Sustainable Food System

  • 12

    A Food System Approach

    • Talking Point: Food System Approach

  • 13

    Food Security

    • Key Term: Food Security

    • Key Term: Food Security

    • Talking Point: Food Security

  • 14

    Entrepreneurs and Food Justice Advocates Filling the Food Desert

    • Talking Point: Food Justice

    • Entrepreneurs and Food Justice Advocates Filling the Food Desert

    • Questions for "Food Justice" Video

  • 15

    Food as a Fundamental Right

    • Talking Point: The Future of Food

    • "The Future of Food" Introduction: The History of Food

    • Questions for "The Future of Food" Video

    • Talking Point: Factory Farms

  • 16

    Low-Income Communities

    • Talking Point: Food System

    • Talking Point: Environmental Injustice

    • Course Question 12 - Factory Farm

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    The Truth About Factory Farming

    • The Truth About Factory Farming

    • Key Term: Factory Farming

    • Talking Point: Factory Farms, Continued

    • Talking Point: Industrial Agriculture

    • Question for "Factory Farming" Video

  • 18

    CAFO

    • Talking Point: CAFOs

    • Key Term: CAFO

    • Key Term: CAFO

    • Talking Point: Antibiotics and Illness

    • Talking Point: Human Consumption

  • 19

    Pesticides

    • Key Term: Pesticides

    • Key Term: Pesticides

    • Talking Point: Pesticides

    • Talking Point: Pesticides and Health

  • 20

    Pesticide Lake

    • Pesticide Lake

    • "Pesticide Lake" Questions

    • Course Question 13 - Farm Work

    • Possible Answers

    • Course Question 14 - Pesticides

  • 21

    Genetically Modified Foods

    • Talking Point: Genetically Modified Foods

    • Key Term: Genetically Modified Foods

    • Talking Point: DNA

    • Genetic Engineering in Agriculture

    • "Genetic Engineering" in Agriculture Video Questions

    • Talking Point: Genetic Modification

  • 22

    Monocropping

    • Key Term: Monocropping

    • Talking Point: Monocropping

    • Course Question 15 - Different Apples

    • Activity Directions: "From Field to Feast: A Journey Around the World"

    • Activity: "From Field to Feast: A Journey Around the World"

  • 23

    Energy in the Industrial Food System

    • Talking Point: Transportation

    • Answer

  • 24

    Waste

    • Talking Point: Waste

    • Course Question 16 - Throw Away

    • Talking Point: The Price of Food

  • 25

    Bioaccumulation

    • Course Question 17 - Bioaccumulation

    • Talking Point: Bioaccumulation

  • 26

    Unhealthy Lifestyle

    • Course Question 18 - Fatty Foods

    • Possible Answers

    • Key Term: Processed Food

    • Talking Point: Processed Food

    • Course Question 19 - Processed Foods

    • Key Term: Fast Food

    • Talking Point: Fast Food

    • Course Question 20 - Fast Food

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    Food Deserts

    • Talking Point: Food Deserts

    • Key Term: Food Deserts

    • Characteristics of a Food Desert

  • 28

    Where is the Food?

    • Activity: Where is the Food?

  • 29

    A Food Co-op In Your Community

    • Talking Point: Food Cooperatives

    • A Food Co-op In Your Community

    • Questions for "A Food Co-op In Your Community" Video

  • 30

    Integrated Pest Management

    • Talking Point: Sustainable Solutions

    • Key Term: Integrated pest Management

    • Key Term: Integrated pest Management

  • 31

    Compost

    • Talking Point: Alternatives to Chemicals

    • Key Term: Compost

    • Key Term: Compost

    • Talking Point: Compost

  • 32

    Drip Irrigation

    • Image: Ways farmers can reduce water use

  • 33

    Urban Agriculture

    • Key Term: Urban Agriculture

    • Key Term: Urban Agriculture

    • Key Term: Peri-Urban Agriculture

    • Key Term: Peri-Urban Agriculture

    • Image: Urban Agriculture

    • Urban Food Growing in Havana, Cuba

    • Growing Power

    • Talking Point: Urban Agriculture Benefits

    • Course Question 21 - Agriculture

    • Talking Point: Urban Agriculture Benefits, Continued

  • 34

    Urban Agriculture: What’s in it for me?

    • Activity Instructions: Urban Agriculture: What’s in it for me?

    • Urban Agriculture: What’s in it for me?

  • 35

    Container Gardening

    • Key Term: Container Gardening

    • Key Term: Container Gardening

    • Talking Point: Container Gardening

    • Vegetable Gardening in Small Spaces

    • Questions for "Vegetable Gardening in Small Spaces" Video

  • 36

    Backyard Gardening

    • Key Term: Backyard Gardening

    • Key Term: Backyard Gardening

    • Talking Point: Backyard Gardening

    • Intro to “Food Forest” Video

    • South Los Angeles Edible 'Food Forest'

    • Questions for "South Los Angeles Edible Food Forest" Video

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    Raised Bed Gardening, Rooftop Gardening, and Community Gardening

    • Key Term: Raised Bed Gardening

    • Key Term: Raised Bed Gardening

    • Talking Point: Raised Bed Gardening

    • How to Build a Raised Bed

    • Talking Point: Building Raised Beds

    • Image: Rooftop Garden

    • New York City Rooftop Farm

    • Questions for "New York City Rooftop Farm" Video

    • Intro to "Science Barge Hydroponics" Video

    • Science Barge Hydroponics

    • Questions for "Science Barge Hydroponics" Video

    • Key Term: Community Gardening

    • Key Term: Community Gardening

    • Talking Point: Community Gardens

    • Growing Fresh Food in the City

    • Questions for "Growing Fresh Food in the City" Video

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    Community Supported Agriculture

    • Talking Point: Buying Locally

    • Key Term: Community Supported Agriculture

    • Key Term: Community Supported Agriculture

    • Talking Point: CSAs

    • Community Supported Agriculture in Low Income Communities

    • Questions for "Community Supported Agriculture in Low-Income Communities" Video

  • 39

    Farmers’ Market

    • Key Term: Farmers’ Market

    • Talking Point: Farmers’ Market

  • 40

    Beekeeping Video

    • Talking Point: Raising Bees

    • Talking Point: Urban Beekeepers

    • Brooklyn's Urban Beekeepers

    • Talking Point: Bee Farms

    • Course Question 22 - Bees

  • 41

    Fair Trade

    • Key Term: Fair Trade

    • Key Term: Fair Trade

  • 42

    Organic Foods

    • Key Term: Organic Foods

    • Key Term: Organic Foods

    • Talking Point: Organic Foods

  • 43

    Free Range Farms

    • Talking Point: Factory Farms

    • Key Term: Free Range Farms

    • Key Term: Free Range Farms

    • Talking Point: Free Range

  • 44

    Diets and Food Preferences

    • Key Term: Omnivore

    • Key Term: Omnivore

    • Talking Point: Diets

    • Key Term: Vegetarian

    • Key Term: Vegetarian

    • Talking Point: Vegetarians

    • Key Term: Low Carbon Diet

    • Key Term: Low Carbon Diet

    • Talking Point: Low Carbon Diet

    • Intro to “A Fresh Approach” Video

    • San Francisco: A Fresh Approach

    • Questions for "San Francisco: A Fresh Approach" Video

  • 45

    Green Jobs in Health, Food and Agriculture

    • Jobs in Health, Food and Agriculture Sector

  • 46

    Reflection Questions for the Health, Food and Agriculture Module

    • Reflection Questions

  • 47

    Quiz

    • Intro to Quiz

    • Quiz Questions

  • 48

    Application & Practice

    • Application & Practice