KA IDL Showcase

Grow, Test, Cook, Taste: What is on a North East plate and where does it come from?

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What is on a North East Plate and where does it come from?

In this IDL, pupils have been exploring local foods and the impact food production has on climate change as they aim to answer their driving question. Through these projects, pupils have developed several skills, such as working with others and planning and organising.

Valuable links with people and organisations have been established and developed through these IDL projects, such as: a school in another Scottish authority, a school in Germany, Aberdeen University, the local butcher, and our teachers as they have shared fruit and veg from their gardens!

Activities have included:

Cooking using local produce linked to the arable crop harvest- Scotch Broth using barley, tattie scones, flapjacks using oats and scones and shortbread.
Learning about the 4 main arable crops and how they are grown and harvested
Working with Aberdeen University about Food and Climate Change
Linking to a German school class sharing information about school dinners
One Planet Picnic event – planning, preparation and consumption of a buffet consisting of local foods

The three posters below summarise the work that pupils have undertaken through their projects. Scroll down to see more detail about the work of our pupils.

Grow

We learned about how arable crops are grown in North East Scotland and how they can be used in preparing local food recipes.

Grow and Cook.pptx

Test

Cook

Taste

One Planet Picnic

We planned and organised a picnic where we chose foods which could be grown or produced locally. Some foods came from other countries but we thought about why this was and decided if there was no local alternative.

We used the outdoor classroom to have our picnic. We had a survey to find out how well the picnic went and to find out how we could improve it for the next one.

We learned about the links between our food choices, sustainability, climate change and future jobs.

One Planet Picnic.pptx

Climate Change Project

We took part in a project with Aberdeen University to investigate the links between food production and climate change.

Dr Feliciano visited us virtually from her home in Portugal and helped us to understand how Carbon, Water and Land have an impact for each different type of food. We looked at different local and global foods and found out about what the carbon footprint might be. This helped us to think about how the food choices we can have an impact on climate change.

What is on your school lunch plate?

We linked with a class in a school in Germany to share information about what we eat for school lunch. This gave them practise in speaking English and developed our communication skills

Crops which grow in the North East

We took some of the crop which was ready to be harvested and demonstrated the processes to change the crop into a final product. We also saw how the crops are harvested.

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