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Food and the Environment - Eco-Schools Objectives and Learning Outcomes
Objectives
The Eco-Schools objectives in this area cover physical, emotional and cognitive aspects. Motivation for sustainable living is gained through practical action, emotional engagement, and improved understanding:
Hands
• Reconnect children and young people with raw foods and ingredients and their processes of production.
Heart
• Foster an appreciation of local distinctiveness and the intimate associations between place and food.
Head
• Develop awareness of the impacts on the environment of different methods of food production and processing.
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• Develop an awareness of the links between our food choices, the environment and people and places elsewhere.
Learning Outcomes
Through work on the Food and the Environment Topic, pupils should be enabled to:
• Understand the range of food choices available to us.
• Understand the resources and skills required for food production and processing.
• Recognise the value of healthy, stable ecosystems to food production.
• Understand the wider environmental implications of our food choices.
• Recognise the dimension of social responsibility in our food choices.
• Recognise our own food culture within a diversity of food cultures.