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Year 6 TEACHER GUIDE Food in the Australian Curriculum: an educational unit for the Year 6 curriculum So You Think You Know Where Your Food Comes From? This resource was produced by AgriFood Skills Australia with funding from the Australian Government through the Department of Agriculture. CC BY-NC-SA This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Australia Licence. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/au/). This licence lets you copy and redistribute work under the Creative Commons licence, so long as the original creator (and any nominated parties) are credited and the source linked to. It also lets others copy, distribute, display and perform the work for noncommercial purposes only. It allows others to remix, adapt and build on the work, but only if they distribute the derivative works under the same license terms that govern the original work. 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First published: May 2014 Developed by: SAVA ideas2outcomes – Sheridan van Asch Designed by: Tim Welch Advice provided by: Mrs Laurie Steel, Primary School Teacher, Childers Primary School, Queensland James Elkerton – Year 6 Student, Tasmania © Commonwealth of Australia 2014 AgriFood Skills Australia General inquiries: Location: Postal address: Phone: 02 6163 7200 Level 3, 10-12 Brisbane Avenue PO Box 5450 Fax: 02 6162 0610 Barton Kingston Email: [email protected] ACT 2600 ACT 2604 Web: www.agrifoodskills.net.au Table of contents Food in the Australian Curriculum Programme – Introduction ii So You Think You Know Where Your Food Comes From – Overview iii Learning Topic 1 – So Let’s Talk About The Food You Eat 1 Description 2 Learning outcomes 2 Activity 1: So what do you eat? 3 Setting the scene 3 Student activity – Work task 1: What are the most common foods eaten in your class? 4 Activity 2: So where does the food you eat come from? 7 Setting the scene 7 Student activity – Work task 1: Create glossary 8 Student activity – Work task 2: Explain key agricultural words/phrases 8 Student activity – Work task 3: So what is free-range and what is organic farming? 9 Resources 10 Activity 3: So what is needed to make food grow? 11 Setting the scene 11 Student activity – Work task 1: Let’s summarise what you have learnt 12 Student activity – Work task 2: Loaves of bread and sustainability 12 Resources 12 Activity 4: Australian cuisine – the food you eat – a result of a diverse and connected world 13 Setting the scene 14 Student activity – Work task 1: Australian food before European settlement – did it exist? 14 Student activity – Work task 2: The introduction of foods from other places 15 Student activity – Work task 3: Major project 16 Resources 17 Learning Topic 2 – So How Is The Food You Eat Produced? 19 Description 20 Learning outcomes 20 Activity 1: How and by who is some of the food you eat produced? 21 Student activity – Work task 1: Farming animals to produce the food you eat 21 Student activity – Work task 2: Making butter – is the change irreversible or reversible? 22 Resources 23 Activity 2: So how about growing your own garden 24 Student activity – Work task 1: Growing a garden 25 Student activity – Work task 2: Garden in a box 25 Student activity – Work task 3: Growing a garden and selling the produce 25 Student activity – Work task 4: The kitchen garden 27 Appendix 1: Additional teacher support resources 28 Appendix 2: Links to the Australian Curriculum 28 List of websites 31 Food in the Australian Curriculum Programme Introduction Food in the Australian Curriculum is an initiative of the Australian Government funded by the Department of Agriculture. It aims to raise awareness and enhance the teaching and learning of the agribusiness industry in Australian schools. The programme supports teachers in the implementation of the English, Maths, Science, History, Geography and Technologies curricula. Implemented by AgriFood Skills Australia, the programme provides free: • in-school presentations for students in years 4-10 on the agrifood industry that are aligned to the curricula; • teacher professional development workshops on the industry, curricula and classroom resources; and • teaching materials to support the implementation of the English, Maths, History, Science, Geography and Technologies curricula. What is included in the resource This Year 6 Unit has been developed as one of the teaching materials to support this programme. The “kit” comprises: Teacher Guide Student Activities and Tasks The Teacher Guide The Student Activities and Tasks is offers tips and in powerpoint format to allow for sample activities, direct use with smartboards and tasks, resources the functionality to enable you to and assessment adapt the activities to meet the options. needs of your students. The text that are in grey directly links to the PowerPoint. Navigation The icons below are used to help identify activities and navigate the document. Learning PowerPoint Internet movie learn outcomes work task resource link movie resource link A+ PowerPoint Assessment Website discuss resource link assess resource link web resource link Note about the cover: This is a photo of a young girl on her farm in NSW. They grow corn, cotton and sunflowers and raise beef cattle. ii So You Think You Know Where Your Food Comes From? Overview This Unit, So You Think You Know Where Your Food Comes From is divided into two standalone key learning topics: So Let’s Talk About The Food You Eat and So How Is The Food You Eat Produced. Together they provide students with the skills to answer the key inquiry question: So you think you know where your food comes from?, during the course of which students will develop an understanding of both where their food comes from and the processes involved to get it from the paddock/garden to the plate. Students will also gain an appreciation of the importance of food in their daily lives as well as the impact food has had on shaping our history and culture, and the way it reflects our diverse and connected world.1 At the same time they will gain an appreciation of the role farmers play in sustaining our way of life by ensuring that we have food on our tables, as well as gaining a fresh perspective on our agricultural sector and the important role it plays in our nation. The purpose of this Unit is to provide you with a guide for integrating agricultural concepts and ideas in the delivery of the Australian Curriculum in a practical way, in this case for Year 6. The suggested activities and tasks contained within this Unit aim to build a deep understanding of where our food comes from, as well as building skills in the areas of English, Science, Mathematics, History and Geography. Links to the Australian Curriculum This Unit supports a cross-curricula approach to the delivery of the Year 6 Australian Curriculum within an agricultural context. It focuses on the key learning areas of English, Mathematics, Science, History and Geography. It does not cover all aspects of the content descriptors for the Year 6 curriculum. The sample activities and tasks have been mapped to the relevant Year 6 Content Descriptor - http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/Year6 - for each of the key learning areas. Further details of the relevant content descriptors can be found in the Appendix. This Unit also aims to assist teachers in meeting those achievement standards of key learning areas that can most effectively be supported by the activities and resources focussed on agriculture. The relevant achievement standards are linked to each learning area and can also be found in the Appendix. Timeframe The timeframe for delivering this Unit will depend on whether you use all or only part of the activities and tasks. Teaching and Learning Activities The Unit is divided into two standalone key learning topics, namely: 1. So Let’s Talk About The Food You Eat; and 2. So How Is The Food You Eat Produced? Each Learning Topic includes: • description (purpose) • learning outcomes • relevant Australian Curriculum achievement standards • Activities with: – relevant Australian Curriculum Descriptors – specific learning outcome/s – suggested work tasks – assessment options – suggested teacher support resources 1 Australian curriculum: Year 6 geography level description. So You Think You Know Where Your Food Comes From? iii Key Inquiry Questions The key inquiry questions for Year 6 are: 1. How important is the physical environment to ensuring the growth and production of food in Australia? (Science) 2.