One in Eight - A Senior Primary Resource about Hunger, Food and Our Role in the World.
Added: 12 Nov 2016
Contributor:
Clare Quigley
Resource type:
Lesson Plan
A comprehensive resource to teach children about nutrition, food waste and global hunger. Comprises 11 lessons which can be taught as a full unit of work, or pick and choose lessons to suit you. Developed in consultation with teachers it includes detailed lesson plans and resources. Topics including Nutrition, Reading Food Labels, Food Waste and Hunger in our World.
How it maps to the curriculum
- 5-6
- SPHE
Strand: Myself & the Wider World
Strand unit: Developing citizenship
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- realise and begin to understand the unequal distribution of the world’s resources
Suggestions for use: Each section focuses on a different topic. Section one focuses on nutrition, the ‘food pyramid and food waste. Section two explores the impact of hunger worldwide – the who, where and why of hunger. Section three examines how we can contribute to ending hunger.
Strand: Myself
Strand unit: Taking care of my body
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- appreciate the importance of good nutrition for growing and developing and staying healthy
Strand: Myself
Strand unit: Making decisions
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- acquire a growing sense of the importance of making informed decisions at many levels and identify some of the decisions he/she has to make
- 5-6
- SESE Geography
Strand: Human Environments
Strand unit: Trade & Development
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- 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
