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Healthy People Healthy Planet
How can we eat a diet that’s healthy for us, but good for the environment as well?

This 45 minute engaging, interactive and cross-curricular workshop allows P4-7 pupils to learn about what makes a sustainable diet.

Getting in shape
Extensive resources for planning and supporting Curriculum for Excellence projects on farming, food and health and wellbeing  – make sure you visit the teachers’ resources page

Better by Miles
Classroom drama project looking at food miles and sustainability

Yummy Science
Fun, simple experiments with food

RATIONal Food
Innovative cross-curricular approach to healthy eating, science and history.

Things to make and do:

Food Lab – more fun and science with food.

Experimental sheets are suitable for use in P5-7 (Primary Middle stages)

• Cabbage chemistry pdf
• Lively Liver pdf
• Slippery, slimy starch pdf
• Sourcing sugars pdf
• Spaghetti Towers pdf
• Starch sleuth pdf
• Sweetie Chromatography pdf

Fruit fuels - for younger children. Choose from a quad bike, a speedboat, a snowboarder and a ballerina. Which fruits best fit the blank spaces? You can download a pdf here 

Food wheel - the food wheel shows the nutrient composition of nine common foods. You can download a pdf and follow the instructions to make your own. 

Snacks, snakes and ladders - this game is a fun way to develop and assess pupils’ nutrition knowledge! It’s also a fun family game! pdf