Where Food Comes From
Where food comes from: which foods are grown, reared or caught (wheat, apples, milk, fish); how ingredients travel from farms and seas to shops; seasonality, and why some fruits and vegetables are only picked at certain times of year
What a learner can do afterwards
- Say whether familiar foods are grown, reared or caught (e.g. bread starts as wheat, fish fingers as fish)
- Describe the steps between farm and plate for one food (e.g. milk goes from cow to dairy to bottle)
- Name fruits or vegetables that are in season at different times of year (e.g. strawberries in summer)
The lesson
Every food starts somewhere. Bread starts as wheat, a plant that grows in fields. Fish fingers start as fish, caught in the sea. Milk comes from cows on a farm.
Mia eats toast for breakfast. The bread came from wheat. Farmers grew the wheat in fields. Then the wheat became flour, and the flour became bread.
Not all fruits grow all year round. Strawberries taste best in summer. That is when they are in season.
Foods are grown, reared or caught, then travel to your plate.
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Where this leads
8 questions wait behind this lesson, each with its answer explained. Every answer feeds the sky: stars light as they are learned, and dim when it is time to come back.