Learning Path
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Food Themed Music Quiz
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/31480/31216.pdf Added: 04 Dec 2019 Contributor: Rebecca Fitzpatrick Resource type: Guide/notes / Lesson Plan / Primary SourceThis resource contains a Food themed playlist of songs and instructions for how to run a food themes music quiz with your class. Ideally would be used as a starter or warm up.
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- 5-6
- Music
Strand: Listening & Responding
Strand unit: Listening and responding to music
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- listen to and describe a broad range of musical styles and traditions, including familiar excerpts, recognising where appropriate its function and historical context
- listen to his/her own compositions and the compositions of others (recordings or live performances) and evaluate in terms of personal response, choice of instruments and expressive qualities
- respond imaginatively to music in a variety of ways
Suggestions for use: Ideally this would be used at the start of a music class as a warm-up. Can be linked with an overall theme of food.
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Growing Plants for Food
http://www.greatgrubclub.com/teachers-growing-plants2#.WZcIrVGGPIU Added: 18 Aug 2017 Contributor: Eddie Sweeney Resource type:Growing Plants for Food - Lessons 1-4
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- 1-2
- SPHE
Strand: Myself
Strand unit: Taking care of my body
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- appreciate that balance, regularity and moderation are necessary in the diet
- appreciate the need and understand how to care for the body in order to keep it strong and healthy
- explore the importance of food for promoting growth, keeping healthy and providing energy
- identify some of the foods that are derived from plant and animal sources
Suggestions for use: Lesson on growing plants for food ad their importance in a healthy diet
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What is a food chain?
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/foodchains.htm Added: 02 Apr 2020 Contributor: Laura McManus Resource type: Reference / ToolAll you need to know about food chains. Great introduction with lots of examples.
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- 5-6
- SESE Science
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plant and animal life
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- become aware of some of the basic life processes in animals and plants
- develop an increasing awareness of plants and animals from wider environments
- understand some ways in which plants reproduce
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Teaching Rhythm Patterns (with food!)
http://carolmatzpiano.com/wp-conten...s/2015/08/Teach-Rhythm-Patterns.pdf Added: 04 Dec 2019 Contributor: Rebecca Fitzpatrick Resource type: PresentationIn this resource there are 4 basic levels (two pages for each level):
• Level 1 = quarter notes, half notes, whole notes
• Level 2 = adds eighth notes
• Level 3 = emphasizes triplets and swing feel
• Level 4 = emphasizes sixteenth notes
Each use different food associated words to create the rhythmic patterns
How it maps to the curriculum
- 5-6
- Music
Strand: Performing
Strand unit: Literacy
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- recognise, name and use some standard symbols to notate metre (time) and rhythm
- use standard symbols with increasing fluency and accuracy to notate simple rhythm and pitch
Suggestions for use: 1.Say the words aloud in rhythm 2–3 times, and ask the students to copy you.
Have the students repeat a few times.
2. Say the words while clapping the rhythm (2–3 times), and ask the students to
copy. (Tapping can be used in place of clapping.)
3. Each rhythm is one complete measure; you may combine rhythms with the same
time signature by placing individual cards next to each other.
4. After a group (or level) of rhythm patterns is learned, place them all in front of
the students. Clap one of the rhythms a few times, and ask the students to choose
the pattern you clapped. (This can be repeated as part of a game.)
5. The students may then progress to playing each rhythm pattern on percussion instruments
while counting aloud.
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Food is Funky / Digestion in a Bag
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/35163/34922.pdf Added: 14 Jan 2021 Contributor: APC Microbiome Ireland Resource type: Demonstration / Experiment / Lesson Plan / ActivityThis activity engages children to learn about our digestive system by finding out how poo is made by the body
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- 5-6
- SESE Science
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Human Life
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- develop a simple understanding of food and nutrition
- develop a simple understanding of the structure of some of the body's major internal and external organs
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Taste Atlas
https://www.tasteatlas.com/ Added: 16 Jan 2019 Contributor: Dave O'Mahony Resource type: Guide/notes / Reference / Tool / Other / App/softwareDiscover local ingredients, traditional dishes & authentic restaurants with Taste Atlas. Use the map to zoom in on a country or location and find out about the food and drinks that were created there. Alternatively, you can use the search box to find something more specific.
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Strand: Human Environments
Strand unit: People and Other Lands
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- begin to develop a sense of belonging to local, county, national, European and global communities
- develop an awareness of the interdependence of these people and people in Ireland
- study some aspects of the environments and lives of people in one location in Europe and one location in another part of the world
Strand: Human Environments
Strand unit: People and Other Lands
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- become aware of various ethnic, religious and linguistic groups of peoples in Ireland, Europe and the wider world
- develop a sense of belonging to local, county, national, European and international communities
- develop an increasing awareness of the interdependence of people in these places and people in Ireland
- learn to value and respect the diversity of peoples and their lifestyles in these areas and other parts of the world
- study some aspects of the environments and lives of people in one location in Europe and one location in another part of the world
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10 Myths about Global Hunger
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/35540/35308.pdf Added: 01 Mar 2021 Contributor: DevelopmentEducation.ie Resource type:How much do you know about global hunger?
Take a look and explore 10 popular myths about world hunger, food production and nutrition by sorting the facts from the fiction.
How it maps to the curriculum
- JC
- Geography
Strand: 3. Exploring People, Place and Change
Strand unit: 7. Compare Life Chances for a Young Person
- JC
- Religious Education
Strand: 3. Living Our Values
Strand unit: 6. Debate a Moral Issue
- JC
- CSPE
Strand: 2. Global Citizenship
Strand unit: 2.1 Sustainability
- 5-6
- SPHE
Strand: Myself & the Wider World
Strand unit: Developing citizenship
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World Hunger Myths Primary Quiz
https://www.flexiquiz.com/SC/N/WorldHungerMythsPrim Added: 15 Oct 2018 Contributor: Dave O'Mahony Resource type: Case Study / Game / ToolThis is a 10 question true or false quiz on the topic of world hunger. Feedback is provided in the answers with some surprising facts and information about hunger in the world today. Information is provided by developmenteducation.ie
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- 5-6
- SPHE
Strand: Myself & the Wider World
Strand unit: Developing citizenship
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- explore how justice and peace can be promoted between people and groups, both nationally and internationally
- realise and begin to understand the unequal distribution of the world’s resources
- 5-6
- SESE Geography
Strand: Human Environments
Strand unit: Trade & Development
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- acquire some knowledge of the origins, work and Irish involvement in some major international organisations
- become aware of the causes and effects of famine
- come to appreciate the inequalities between the developed and the developing world
- discuss possible short and long-term solutions to famine
- examine the work of relief agencies and become aware of Irish involvement in them
- explore some of the issues and problems associated with aid
- explore, through the study of some major world commodities, trade issues
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Healthy Eating Online Games
https://www.healthyeating.org/Healthy-Kids/Kids-Games-Activities Added: 11 Sep 2018 Contributor: Sharon Hogan Resource type: GameThis resource provides a link to a series of games supported by the California Dairy Industry, but which focus on Healthy Eating in general.
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- SPHE
Strand: Myself
Strand unit: Taking care of my body
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- become aware of the importance of food for growth and development
- discuss and explore some qualities and categories of food
- explore food preferences and their role in a balanced diet
Suggestions for use: Use these games to reinforce teaching about Healthy Eating and food groups. They could provide a stimulating plenary or introduction to a lesson.
They could also provide for informal assessment of the children's learning and understanding of the topic.
