Chocolate Bar Product Web- SU 16
Monday, August 2nd, 2010Product web for a chocolate bar.
Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
Summer upload –13 Cocoa Farming
Sunday, August 1st, 2010Old school farming processes diagram, I illustrated it using a movie produced by Rob Chambers about Cocoa farming in Ghana.
Summer upload- resource 9- Fair Trade introduction…
Friday, July 30th, 2010I introduced Fair Trade this year with this mini-investigative task involving the tasting of chocolate, could be adapted to other foodstuffs.
Summer upload- resource 8- going shopping…
Thursday, July 29th, 2010A task asking students to produce a costing for a department meal using an online shopping website. The concept of availability and cost of organic alternatives is drawn out, as well as utilising a number of key skills.
Summer upload- resource 5, 6 and 7- The Organic Debate…
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010Easier to upload these in a batch, all can be found on the R.G. food page.
To introduce the concept of organic farming I used this video clip…
We then decided which of the statements referred to organic farming using the ‘Which is organic sheet?’.
We then conducted a mini-investigation, entitled ‘Are Kirk Hallam families converts to organic products?’. This took around three lessons, also an opportunity to use ICT.
Finally to help add some explanation to our findings we completed the counterargument exercise.
Also good to use the classic Store Wars clip… this never fails to get a smile.
Summer upload- resource 4- local ‘v’ global food.
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010After mapping the teachers’ fridges we completed this classification exercise to help consider the arguments for and against purchasing local and global foodstuffs.
Summer upload- resource.3- food miles
Monday, July 26th, 2010
We had a couple of interesting lessons with this mini-investigative resource, we compared the fridges of two teachers, but it can be easily adapted to the students’ fridges. Involves a range of skills, we used this as a starter to the local ‘v’ global debate. Supporting resource to follow…
The issue of bushmeat…
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Continuing to upload resources related to food. We began to look at the issue of bushmeat at the end of last term, I was inspired late one night watching a repeat of Cooking in the Danger Zone. Sadly it’s not on DVD.
Bushmeat
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The first lesson we watched the programme and students completed an emotion line.
The second lesson we did a classification task.
As an alternate writing exercise, we’re going to produce a CEEFAX article, ,’old skool’, but I think it will really concentrate students’ thinking with regards content and audience.
Ceefax Template
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National Dishes
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Over the summer I created a new year 7 scheme on food, we’ve just started it…
The scheme aims to look at the issues surrounding food as well as develop geographical different skills.
Mapping National Dishes
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In this lesson we rated our responses to national different dishes (I’m not sure they are the official ones!) and mapped the results, to add a bit of movement I printed the different slides and posted them around the room- seemed to work!
Resources can be downloaded here.
Food for thought- new scheme
Thursday, July 31st, 2008One of my tasks for the holiday is to produce a new Key Stage 3 scheme of work.
A bit of context is needed… the scheme is for year 7 and based around food, but it will deliver atlas skills, some basic numeracy and ICT skills. It will probably be taught around the mid part of the first half-term, so I’m looking at easing them in, as well as developing good habits.
I’m not sure whether this is the start of the scheme or not (I just wanted to make a start!), I’ve been thinking about how to open the unit. This was my first bit of inspiration.
