objective: What ARE FOOD MILES?
Task 1: How many of the following foods do you recognize? How many of these foods can we
grow in the UK? Why/why not?
grow in the UK? Why/why not?
Food MILES...
a measure of how far food has travelled to reach a consumer.
Task 2: Select a starter, main and dessert from the following menu. Calculate the total distance your meal has travelled using an atlas/Google Earth or the food mile calculator below.
Task 3: Complete the paragraph below by filling in the missing words.
Food miles are the measure of the ____________ a food travels from field to plate.
This travel adds substantially to the ___________ ___________ emissions that are contributing to ____________ change.
____________ per cent of the fruit and half of the vegetables in the UK are __________.
Task 4: Should we import our food from abroad? Give reasons for your answer.
Food miles are the measure of the ____________ a food travels from field to plate.
This travel adds substantially to the ___________ ___________ emissions that are contributing to ____________ change.
____________ per cent of the fruit and half of the vegetables in the UK are __________.
Task 4: Should we import our food from abroad? Give reasons for your answer.
the journey of a banana.
Task 1: Look at the photos below. Explain that the photos follow the journey of a banana from planting in St Vincent to being sold in a supermarket in the UK. – ask questions about your photo.
Task 2: What happened in the stage before and after the photo was taken? Ask them to draw what they think might have happened to the banana before the stage shown in the picture, and what might happen afterwards. When they have finished, they can display their pictures as a 'time line' with the original photo.
the banana split game :()Divide into groups and play the game!
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