GCSE Food preparation and nutrition
Details of what we can provide about food provenance are below – but first here’s a bit of fun for Christmas….
Countdown to the 12 days of great British Foods for Christmas follow the countdown on twitter #12DaysUKFood and via @DiscovARCountry
Watch 12 days of great British Foods for Christmas
Starting 1 December will be tweet the days of Great UK Food from our British Farmer for Christmas.
Discovering Food Provenance.
As a technology teacher you will be familiar with the “Eat Well Plate – now Guide” but how is your knowledge of the “Eat Well Harvest”, food provenance and sustainability.
Entry point video for our ‘Is 5 A Day killing the planet’? teaching theme
This is the entry point video for our teaching theme “Is 5 A Day killing our planet?”
“Is 5 A Day killing our planet?”
These teaching materials (once completed) are designed to capture your pupils interest about food provenance. It looks at some of the ‘problems’ we are faced with in modern food production in the UK. Food miles, Seasonality, Food Labels, Sustainability and Food Security. (Is 5 A Day killing the planet? Is aimed at getting pupils to think about the current expectation of choices available in the shops to help them meet their 5 A Day in terms of seasonality of food, food miles and the sustainability of having this choice.)
Before these issues can be discussed objectively pupils need a background of knowledge of how food is produced today in the UK.
This is will be done by following four food stories based around the Eat Well Guide.
- Cereals (wheat, barley oats) for the starchy carbohydrate foods
- Beef – for the beans, pulses, fish, eggs and meat section
- Fresh Veg – for the fruit and veg section
- Dairy – for the dairy products section
These are currently being produced – so anyone wishing to contribute or get involved / make comments please let me know. The current thinking haven spoken to several food technology teachers and how pressed they will be for time is to make these food stories so they can be set as homeworks with a student workbook. Once they pupils have built up their knowledge doing this then the food problems, sustainability etc can be covered as lessons / debates. Please contact me below if you would like to become more involved with this – eg trailing the resources in the spring term.
