Wisconsin Food Systems
Education Framework
UW-Extension Community Food Systems Team (CFST)
and the Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education
UW Stevens Point - College of Natural Resources
Madelin Petz
Food Systems Education
Outreach Specialist, WCEE
Jeremy Solin
Director (interim), WCEE
UW-Extension Specialist
What is an education framework?
• Foundation for identifying and developing educational
materials and programs
• Variety of topics
• Variety of ages
• WCEE frameworks on sustainability, forestry, and energy
education
What is a food systems education framework?
A food systems education framework documents and organizes the broad range
of content, skills, and dispositions included in food systems education.
A food system includes all of the processes involved in
keeping us fed, along with the inputs and outputs
generated at each step. *
Food systems literacy…
having the knowledge and skills to understand and act
within a food system and its components.
* Cornell University,
http://www.discoverfoodsys.cornell.edu/primer.html
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Step 1: Food system components and contacts
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Step 2: Content, skills, and dispositions
- Survey and webinar input
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Step 3: Analyze and organize
- Concepts and themes
- Drafts and revising
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Step 4: Scope and sequence
- Relate concepts to grade levels
- Team workday
The Development Process
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Wisconsin specific (input process), but relevant elsewhere
Year long project, multiple stages
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May – June 2014:
Steps 1 and 2
- identify food system components
- identify key contacts
- develop and distribute survey and webinar
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July – September 2014:
Step 3
- analyze and organize contributed information
- concepts and themes
- compare to existing frameworks, share with contributors
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November 2014 – April 2015:
Step 4
- scope and sequence meeting
- compile sections, reviews and revisions, final draft
Project Timeline
Input Survey
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Food literacy
Youth competencies
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Over 500 contacts
About 200 responses
(teachers, students, food system
industry, business, non-profit,
farmers, university, waste sector,
marketing, food security, food
distribution, food processors, etc.)
Next Steps in Program Development
1) Compile resources
2) Bridge with standards
 Compile pertinent and
 Ag, Food, Natural Resources
applicable existing resources
 Merge with framework concepts
to facilitate teaching
 Identify gaps
 Environmental Education
 Health Education
 Nutrition Science
 Science
 NGSS
Concepts
Standard
A.8.4
Lesson Plan
A
Curricula B
Standard
ABS1.a.1
Activity
Guide C
Standard
2.3.A1
Scope and Sequence
Other Framework Examples
• Forestry Education:
http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/leaf/SiteAssets/Pages/Curriculum/LEAF%20Conceputal%20Framework%202005.pdf
• Renewable Energy/Energy Education:
http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/KEEP/Documents/Publications/Conceptual_Framework.pdf
Thank you!
Madelin.Petz@uwsp.edu
715.346.2779