Food Security and Sustainable Development at Primary Level
This list supports work around food security and sustainable development, it links to an article featured in the Spring 2016 edition of the STEM Learning Magazine.
Save Our Bees
This activity pack contains nine activities linking to bees. They include: identifying bees and bee pollinated plants, the factors which affect growth and decline in bee populations, making bee nests, a role-play about population decline and making bee puppets.
Healthy People, Healthy Planet
This collection of five resources offers a cross curricular approach to diet, sustainable food production and how human activity impacts upon our environment. The approaches used will enable students to come to decisions regarding their diet based on many factors including food miles and nutritional value. This is becoming an increasingly important issue for us all as we search for a healthy, sustainable diet for the future.
Food for thought: food science
Ten activities relating to food science., looking at keeping healthy, a balanced diet, digestion, teeth and eating, solids, liquids and gases and irreversible reactions. Designed to demonstrate key ideas and concepts and to spark an interest in science, the resources could be used in class or within a science week or club. They include: identifying the edible parts of plants, investigating the fat content in foods, exploring solids which behave like liquids and making sherbet.
The Crunch
The Crunch is an exciting year of activities, experiences and discussions about our food, our health and our planet. Through The Crunch we want to help people think about how our food, our health and our planet are all interconnected. By examining our relationships with food, and exploring cutting edge research, we can think about how we can eat in ways that can keep our planet and ourselves healthy.
Schools will be receiving their free kits from spring 2016, and our events for families and adults will be running up and down the UK from spring/summer 2016.