Food Educational Resources
These educational resource packs have been created to help teachers build knowledge around food and food careers and improving children's soft skills needed for the future.
Capitalising on previous assets developed by EIT-Food partners (WeValueFood, EIT Food school network, MasterChef Junior, Games of food, Annual Food Agenda, Salvacomidas, FutureKitchen, CKIC Human capital, etc.) EIT Food invited learning experts to create coherent ready-to-use resource packs with and for teachers, available in multiple European languages. The two resource packs (downloadable, easy-to-use teachers’ handbooks and online supplementary materials) are developed for younger students from 9-14 (Food Mission) and teenagers from 11-16 (Food Careers).
Both educational resource packs offer:
Freely accessible online materials in multiple languages
3 thematic modules including ready-to use, detailed lesson plans
Additional resources to be used in the lesson plans (videos, quizzes and others)
Accompanied by train the teachers’ workshops (in the piloting phase)
A challenge-based approach supporting teachers and students to explore the local food ecosystem and its opportunities
The aim of the learning materials, preceded by a thorough needs assessment survey conducted with teachers was to build students’ knowledge about food and improve the soft skills needed for future careers at the same time.
Supported skills:
Group work
Creativity
Interviewing
Research
Presentational skills
Brainstorming
Visioning
Critical thinking
The most important learning outcomes:
Systems thinking: Broadening thinking to identify aspects within food systems and understand its complexity and interrelations.
Systems mapping: Explore the variety of jobs within the food systems.
Sustainable lifestyle: Understanding sustainability, from farm to fork to disposal.
Healthy eating behaviour: Identify the characteristics of healthy eating patterns.
Features:
Lesson plans and are freely accessible online in multiple languages (in 2023 Czech, Greek, English, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish, Spanish, Turkish)
Lesson plans come with additional resources (videos, quizzes, further reading materials)
The event pack will be also available in the following languages (coming soon)
Supported skills:
Group work
Creativity
Interviewing
Research
Presentational skills
Brainstorming
Visioning
Critical thinking
The most important learning outcomes:
Science literacy and critical thinking: Engaging with food as a basic science literacy concept that facilitates critical evaluation of information and informed decision making
Systems thinking: Broadening thinking to identify aspects within food systems and understand their complexity and interrelations.
Systems mapping: Explore the variety of jobs within the food systems.
Sustainable lifestyle: Understanding sustainability, from farm to fork to disposal.
Healthy eating behaviour: Identify the characteristics of healthy eating patterns.
In 2023, FoodEducators activities will be closely linked to Career Days, 3 Proof of Concept projects, and a national competition in the UK.