The
Food Project
This is a mini-project designed to
let you explore ways of showing your learning. You’ll pick a simple food, one
that is a single ingredient only. You’ll learn a little bit about where this
food comes from and how it gets from the farm to your dinner plate. Having
collected this information, your job will be to choose from a variety of
presentation forms to show off your learning. This last is the important part: you are to experiment with ways of
exhibiting the things you have learned. You are encouraged to try something
that you have never done before!
Here are some basic questions for
you to answer. The answers to these questions are readily available online and
in videos.
1.
Where in the world
is this food grown/raised?
2.
How is this food grown/raised?
3.
What special
equipment or facilities are needed?
4.
How is this food
packaged and transported to the grocery store?
5.
List 1 – 3 health
benefits of eating this food.
Once that part is done, you can now pump
up your project. Doing a little bit more research can provide you with more
things to include in your presentation. There are probably some pretty interesting
facts about this food that you did not already know.
Some ideas to help you in your
search:
o Countries
this food is grown in
o Are
there varieties of this food
o Recipes
for this food? Buying and storage tips?
o Is
this food culturally important to any people?
o Is
it related to any other food?
o Are
there health disadvantages in eating this food?
o Can
this food be used as medicine?
o Can
this food, or parts of this food, be used in any non-food way?
o What
does this food cost? Can you compare this price with its cost in other places
in Canada?
o If
you were asked to sell this food, how would you advertise it?
o What
is a suggested serving size for this food?
Places for research:
A list of online resources will be added to the class blog.
How Does it Grow? This is a great
video series about 5 foods (apples, cauliflower, garlic, mushrooms and
cranberries). These will answer most, if not all of the basic questions:
Canada’s Food Guide:
Food Facts:
As well, search for your specific
food online. Be sure to enter “for kids” in your search box (ex. enter “grapefruit
facts for kids”), so you get results you can actually understand!
