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Fairmont Heights Teacher Wins Johns Hopkins Award

Bonita Curtis at Fairmont Heights High School receives "Livable Future" grant to teach students about the food system and environment.

Prince George's County Schools teacher Bonita Curtis has won a John's Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) grant to teach students about the food system and its impact on the environment.

Curtis, a teacher at Fairmont Heights High School, is one of 10 Maryland teachers to receive a "Teaching the Food System for Educators" grant. The award funds "innovative" educational activities for teachers who were early to adopt CLF's Teaching the Food System curriculum. The program focuses on the relationship of food, public health, diet and the environment.

The $2,000 grants enable teachers to build upon the curriculum by creating activities such as field trips and school projects so students can apply what they learn. The project Curtis created will include field trips to a farm and a meat packing plant. Students will also grow a garden and create a cookbook for teens.

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The Teaching the Food System curriculum itself is available to all high school and college educators to use in their classrooms and can be downloaded from the site. It include slides, handouts, vocabulary builders and other materials to help educators reduce lesson preparation time.

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