How Did That Get In My Lunchbox?

Overview

Focusing on the concepts of food production and food supply chains from the farm to the lunchbox. Students rotate through a series of interactive scientific and agricultural workshops. Students will complete our THREE core workshops linked to data analysis of class lunch-boxes, creation of food supply chain webs, seed identification and fruit/vegetable identification, and vegetable art. Schools can also choose TWO workshops from our options suite to suit their particular educational context.

Curriculum Links

This program supports teaching and learning in the areas of:

Geography, Maths, Science & Technology and PDHPE

GE2: Environments—Cultural Values– Sustainable

Agriculture—interconnections and spatial distribution

M2/ST2/GE2: Collect organise and interpret data, create graphs

ST2: Life Cycles—Agricultural Processes—physical properties and changing states of milk

ST2: Working Scientifically- experiments/investigations

PD2: Decision Making and Personal Health Choices (food)

Careers Education: Careers in AgSTEM

Cross Curricula: Sustainability

Timing

Full Day : approx 9.30am—2.30pm . (up to 5 workshops depending on the schools break times)

1/2 Day : approx 9.00am - 11.30am and 12pm - 2.30pm ( two core and one optional workshop)

Cost

DoE Schools Full Day- $500/class (Max 30 students) 1/2 Day - $300/class ( Max 30 students)

Non DoE Schools: Full day programs only $20/student. Minimum 25 students

Core Workshop Suite:

Workshop 1

From the farm to your lunchbox

Students will explore the supply chain that their favourite foods take from the farm to their lunchbox, considering the various stages of production and the careers linked to each stage, whilst also understanding the actual base ingredients for their food.

Workshop 2

Do you really know your fruit and veg?

Students will undertake a series of challenges to explore the world of fruit and vegetables. This will include an understanding of seeds, plant growth and opening students to a broad range of fruit and vegetables.

Workshop 3

Mushroom Magic

Students will learn about the wonderful world of mushrooms. This workshop includes activities linked to science, agriculture and the arts.

Schools can also choose two workshops (full day program) from the following options suite:

Optional Workshop

The secrets of the banana (optional)

Students will learn the truth about the banana, how it grows, where it grows, and the history of the banana plant from ancient times to today. They will also engage in a fun and magical science experiment using a banana.

Optional Workshop

Blind Taste Test (optional)

This workshop is not suitable for classes with students who have a severe food based allergy

Students will be be split into teams and then complete our blind taste test challenge. Students will need to consider all their senses and questioning skills to identify the secret foods.

Optional Workshop

It's simply science (optional)

Students will be stepped through two simple science experiments linked to food. Schools will be introduced to experimental design to complete food based science experiments.

Optional Workshop

Butter Biology Experiment (optional)

Students will learn the truth about the biological processes that create butter. Students will learn about where butter comes from, consider the uses of butter in a broad range of food products and complete a formal experiment where they will make butter in teams, and record their scientific findings linked to cell biology.

Optional Workshop

Careers in Ag (optional)

Breaking the stereotype of what it means to work in agriculture, including stereotypes linked to gender and geographical locations students will play our Careers in Ag game. Students will explore a variety of careers linked to food production from growing to coding and everything in between. They will connect the role these careers play to the foods they find in their lunchbox and the curriculum they learn in schools. They will also consider the skills and capabilities linked to educational and career pathways in AgSTEM.

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