Food For Thought
Description
This project will have you and your action team planting and caring for your own food from seed to harvest! During this project, you will participate in activities that get you thinking about these questions, and why the answers matter for your health, for farmers and rural communities, and for the environment. There is a lot more to know about what you put into your body than what first meets your eye in the grocery store, a restaurant, or your refrigerator.
Language: English
Teaching Process
Food For Thought has students take a look at the food we eat and how it is produced by many people from many places, learn to identify and recognize the Fair Trade logo and learn about producing and buying foods that are better for the future of the planet.
Food Tasting/Smelling/Drawing – Students use their senses to explore food from around the world.
Fruit Basket – Students identify different fruit in a picture and use a map to identify where they come from.
Fruit Salad Game – Students identify where different fruits come from and play a chair game.
Where Did Your Breakfast Grow? – On a paper plate, students draw what they had for breakfast. The plates are placed around a world map and using pieces of string they link some of their food items to their place of origin.
It’s Not Fair – Students begin exploring fair and unfair trade by participating in an unequal distribution of raisins.
On Your Mark – Students learn to recognize the Fair Trade Mark by looking at different products. They participate in an in-class shopping activity to collect as many Fair Trade products as possible.
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Source:LSF - EcoLeague
Resource Type:Lesson Plan
Subject(s):Science, Social Studies,
Topic:Business and Economics, Food and Agriculture, Taking Action,
Level:Primary / Elementary
Grade:JKK 1 2 3 4 5 6