Food Around the World

Food and families around the World: This was the great resource that was shown at our workshops that gives us some insight into family food expenditure and favourite foods – in 2 formats.

The food and families images within a suggested learning experience

http://efs.tki.org.nz/Curriculum-resources-and-tools/Food-and-families-Around-the-World

The original photos from Time

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_1373680,00.html

.....which seem to come from this book......

Further sites that may have useful ideas and resources
http://www.nourishlife.org/ - this website has a range of resources to support our kaupapa - teacher guides, video clips, teaching and learning activities and stories about what different schools have done. There are a range of short video clips on food and communities (ones I thought might be useful in classes were Food Chain, Apple Seed). Also have a look at the teaching resources. The food systems area has examples of food cycles.


Great meals for a change is the website that the poster that we looked at in the network workshop. http://www.greatmealsforachange.ca/project-materials.php#tool-kit

http://www.greatmealsforachange.ca/userfiles/Sustainable-Food-Habit-Poster.jpg

Some of you are looking at who your community is, what defines it and the diversity within. Books to connect into a unit about Identity and Belonging:

The Tree by Bob Darroch

Hundreds of years ago a tiny seedling struggled for life in the New Zealand bush. Then, as chance would have it, a mighty giant fell and gave the little tree a chance for life. Through this beautifully illustrated story we follow the life of this tree as it, in turn, grows to be a mighty giant. Along the way, we see the changes to the landscape and the arrival of new creatures to the land where the tree first grew.

 With this book what you could do is adapt it to be something in your community that you tell the story of what ‘goes past’ each day and how together we all make up the wonderful fabric of our communities. It could be that for schools with a range of cultures that a ‘cultural’ meal for groupings is prepared under the tree and shared with all of the community that goes past….

Jeannie Baker has a wonderful series of textless picture books that work incredibly well in the context of Identity

http://www.jeanniebaker.com/picture_books_index.htm Belonging - perfect for looking at how community can come together to create spaces for everyone and everything.

This blog has an interesting commentary of Jeannie’s work that you might find interesting http://trevorcairney.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/jeannie-baker-revisited.html

Her latest book Mirror is not one that I am familiar with but it sounds again like an interesting work that could be used within our setting – there is a left hand and right hand story tracking the lives of two boys one from Sydney and one from Morocco.