In this series of lessons we will be looking at where our food comes from. The children were introduced to the idea that food stuffs come from different places (and often more than one place) on the planet using the attached worksheet.
Examples of the food stuffs were brought in for them to look at, smell and touch. In addition, small pictures of each food and a large classroom globe were used to “map out” all the places you might get the specific foods from. For example, having discussed where coffee comes from (and deciding on Kenya, Brazil and Ethiopia as our examples) we put a small picture of a coffee cup on our classroom globe in each of these places.
By the end of the lesson we had a classroom globe covered in pictures of tea, rice, coffee beans, lamb, bananas and bread. We could identify places that produced things that needed sunshine to grow (or even rain in the case of rice). We could see that lamb was produced in countries as far apart as Scotland and New Zealand. We could see clearly understand that countries such as Kenya produce a lot of our goods - from bananas to coffee.
In the next few lessons we will concentrate on one country that produces a number of different foodstuffs - Kenya.
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