Teacher & Student Materials > Feeding a Hungry Planet
What do we currently eat?
45 minutes
This lesson aims to relate the global food system to students’ daily life, starting from reflecting on what they have eaten for breakfast to asking where all the ingredients came from. This approach naturally connects personal experiences to global issues.
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All necessary background knowledge will come from this lesson.
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Stick notes
Teacher slides: 1.1 What do we currently eat
Student material: 1.1 From where?
Materials:
Prepare sticky notes.
Ask students to write a different food item from their dinner yesterday on a sticky note.
Student backgrounds
After the students have written down what they ate, ask them to work in pairs or small groups and categorize the various food items on their sticky notes.
Small-group brainstorming
Write down student responses before sharing the list on slide 5.
Whole-class discussion
Materials: Student material: 1.1 From where?
Now we’re going to investigate 2 very popular food items that might have come up in some of the lists students prepared.
Question for next step: Did you know – Italian pizza and hamburgers are probably the most photographed foods in the world?
Ask the students for the ingredients and list them as the students share. Slide 6 contains lists of the basic ingredients.
A question appears at the bottom of Slide 8: Where do these ingredients come from?
Students can hypothesize or share their thoughts at this point, but ask them to take a worksheet home (Student material: 1.1 From where?) and find out.
Global / local dynamic
Whole-class discussion
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