Tasty School – Food Education for Primary Schools
Tasty school is a primary school model for food education. Tasty school offers tools for implementing the primary education curriculum and achieving the goals of school meal recommendations.
Practical solutions for schools
- How to improve food environment and school meals
- How to implement food education activities
- How to increase social participation
The evaluation of the current status of school meals and food education
- www.nykytila.fi (Visit an external site. The link will open in a new tab.) is a free tool for assessing, monitoring and improving visibility at both the unit and municipal level
Easily usable food education materials in one place
- More than 200 ideas – complete lessons, small moments or tasks (in Finnish)
- Tips for developing school meals and improving cooperation (in Finnish)
- Materials for food education in English: browse here
Online course on food education for teachers (in Finnish).
- Including independent reflection and group work to agree upon the common rules for food education in school
Tasty School (in Finnish) is developed by Finnish Society for Food Education Ruukku and University of Eastern Finland, project funds from Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.