Food for Life curriculum pack




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Welcome to the Food for Life curriculum pack, a new educational resource that has been developed by the Soil Association as part of the Food for Life initiative.

The pack provides a wide range of engaging and informative activities for both key stage one and two (our Scottish pack includes Scottish curriculum links). It is divided into five topics which cover food production from the 'plough to the plate' and includes work on being a consumer and making choices about food (topic five). Lively activity sheets and colour teaching resources accompany the topics - we have done the hard work so you don't have to!

We hope that the Food for Life curriculum pack will act as a springboard for genuine change in the way that children learn about food and will encourage a 'food culture' within your school.

This project is supported by Organic South West and the All Saints Educational Trust.

Using the pack

Click on the links below to access the topics, activity sheets and teaching resources.
Go to all about this pack to find ideas for using this pack.

Contents

Topics

Introductory topic: What is the role of food in our lives? KS1 & 2

Topic 1: Where does our food come from? KS1 | KS2

Topic 2: What do we really know about farming? KS1 | KS2

Topic 3: What do we eat and how could we make our diet healthier? KS1 | KS2

Topic 4: Can we learn how to cook and enjoy a wider range of food? KS 1 & 2

Topic 5: How do we make choices about the food we eat? KS1 | KS2

Activity sheets

1 Fruit or root?
2 Where in the world?
3 Bonkers about bananas quiz
4 Things I know about farming
5 Animal charter
6 On the trail…
7 Farming: harms or protects?
8 Balance of good health plate
9 What I ate today
10 Food diary
11 So what does our food diary tell us?
12 Become a nutrition expert
13 What would they say?
14 Food adverts on TV

Teaching resources

1 What are the ingredients?
2 Food stories
3 How far has your food traveled?
4 Dividing up the banana
5 Farming pictures
6 How the other half live
7 Wild about wildlife
8 Crop rotation
9 Food chain
10 Healthy kids
11 Seven tips for healthy eating
12 Decisions, decisions

Ideas for how to use this pack

About this curriculum pack


Food for Life: campaigning for local and organic school meals and food education. © Soil Association 2003. Curriculum pack supported by Organic South West through European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund and All Saints Educational Trust