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Quest 9: Shopping Feely Bag
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Shopping Feely Bag |
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30 minutes |
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- A drawstring "feely bag" containing:
- Food sourced from the rainforest (coffee, cane sugar, chocolate, bananas, pineapple, mango, curry powder, peppercorns etc.) As many as possible of these items should be rainforest friendly products and fair trade with labels displayed for the children to identify.
- Locally sourced food including some fresh fruits.
- 2 hoops labelled 'Rainforest' and 'Close to Home'
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Group Size: Whole Class
Process:
The children are sat in a circle with the two hoops on the carpet in the centre. The teacher says that she has been shopping and has bought some foods which were grown close to home and were taken to the supermarket on a lorry, and some foods which have come on an airplane all the way from the rainforest. The teacher explains in simple terms about the issues of air miles and carbon footprint and encourages a discussion with the children. A discussion about what the 'Fairtrade' label means should also take place.
The feely bag is then passed around the circle .The children are to place their hands in the bag without peeping. They describe the texture and shape of the object and try to guess what it is. The object is then withdrawn from the bag and named. Is it labelled Fairtrade? The child then has a go at sorting it into the correct hoop.
When all the foods have been sorted the teacher asks the children for their ideas about what they could make using only the locally sourced ingredients.
Product:
- Food which has been sorted out into rainforest produce and locally sourced produce.
- Recipe ideas from the children for using locally sourced ingredients.
Extension:
Chose one of the simple recipe ideas suggested by the children to produce in the classroom e.g a fruit salad using locally sourced fruits.
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