By Vikki Heatherbell, Fiona Dube and Navreet Kaur

This activity looks at students developing the idea of sustainability by using Food miles in some easily available foods around them.

Principles from curriculum: Future Focus

•Curriculum Vision: Young people who will seize the opportunities offered by new knowledge and technologies to secure a sustainable social, economic and Environmental future for our country.

•Curriculum Values:•Students will be encouraged to value the ecological sustainability , which includes•Care for the environment.•Students will be encouraged to engage critically with societal issues and evaluate the sustainability of alternative social ,economic ,political and environmental practices

•Key competencies thatstudents will learn:•Thinking•Relating to others•Managing self

Activity:•Work in pairs.•Choose a type of food.

•Research using the internet to find out what a food mile is.

•Find the food mile of your chosen food using Google map.•Find the nutritional value of the food.

•Calculate the approximate amount of fuel used to bring the food to Nelson.•How is the food mile related to global warming?•What can you do to reduce global warming?

•Present the above information in a power point to the whole class.•Make posters to show how you can help choose alternative foods to reduce global warming.

The activity will involve- ICT, Science, English, Arts ,Math and Geography

Actual power point information that was used in TP2A word document was also handed in .

•How far has the ingredient travelled? What is its food mile value?•Students will find out the nutritional value of the food •How does it help the human body?•What is the daily recommended intake for it?•Can we do without it- the food you chose?•Can food be substituted with some other foods?•Is the food worth buying when we are running out of fuel or not?•Presentation; Each group will make a powerpoint ppt for the above findings.•No more than 7 slides•Contents can include pictures and animation to make it more interesting•You should be able to answer any question asked based on your findings•Both the partners will have to prepare, present and answer•You will have to include a bibliography of your work•You will be assessed based on your behaviour in the computer lab, working as team, and your presentation.•You will also be assessed by your partner- peer assessment

Things I would like to change next time:•Each pair would choose different food to avoid any repetitions.

•Complete the poster as well and hang them up in classroom.

•Investigate on local food availability and compare the prices.

Limitation:• Many students can’t tell their parents what foods are indirectly related to their ultimate well being.•So hopefully they can actually make choice when they are in charge.

Bibliography

www.allanbennett.net

www.gdrc.org

www.greenlivingtips.com