Food for Life curriculum pack




Scottish curriculum pack

Download it: free

You can download the Scottish pack as a PDF below:

» all topics [47 pages, 423kb]

» all activity sheets [15 pages, 480kb]

» all teaching resources [26 pages, 1.98Mb]

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The Food for Life Curriculum Pack is designed to provide primary teachers with a wide range of engaging and informative food and farming related activities. The pack gives pupils a chance to immerse themselves in the issues surrounding food and its production from ‘the plough to the plate’.

The activities link most closely to the 5-14 curriculum strands for environmental studies, with opportunities for cross-curricular links to aspects of PSD and Education for Citizenship. Individual activities could therefore be selected from the education pack and used by teachers for those curriculum areas.

Given the non-statutory nature of the 5-14 curriculum, the suggested links are to be seen as guidelines which schools and teachers may interpret in their own way.

The Soil Association also has The little book of organic farming which is free to teachers. This bright, colourful guidebook is full of information, photos and activities and provides a fascinating insight into what you may find on an organic farm. It is designed to be used during a farm visit or read in its own right.

For a copy, contact the education team on 0117 914 2440 or email education@soilassociation.org Tell them you are a teacher in Scotland and they will include a one-page insert with Scottish curriculum links.

You can also access the English version of this pack online.


Food for Life: campaigning for local and organic school meals and food education. © Soil Association 2004. Curriculum pack supported by Organic South West through European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, All Saints Educational Trust and the Scottish Executive