Paddock to Plate: Get your hands on my food

Learning Resource 3: Paddock to Plate: Where does my food come from?

Get your hands on my food!

Content Description: Year 3/4 Design and Technologies

• Investigate food and fibre production and food technologies used in modern and traditional societies. (ACTDEK012) Plan a sequence of production steps when making designed solutions individually and collaboratively. (ACTDE018)

Year 3 Science

• A change of state between solid and liquid can be caused by adding or removing heat. (ACSSU046) Science involves making predictions and describing patterns and relationships. (ACSHE050)

Students in this activity will explore food in a hands-on manner to consider changes raw food goes through to become a familiar food.

• Explore change in food.
• Understand the role of production and food technologies past and present.
• Expand understanding of the sequence of production steps.
• Learn the role of chemistry and maths in the composition, transformation and production of our food.

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