1. Where does my food come from?
Food miles.
Distance your food has to travel to get from the grower to your plate

2. What are food miles?
A measure of how far our food travels from the land to our plate

3. Remember: it usually is not direct!
Explain that it isn’t this simple - most food’s journey from field to plate isn’t always direct. It travels from farm to packaging factory, to distribution center, then maybe another distribution center, to shopping market and finally to our homes.

4. How does our food travel?
- Any ideas? Whats the mode of transport?

5. Where did your dinner come from?
Ask students where their dinner came from. Can they tell you where on the map that is?
Have a physical world map whereby you or the students can place stickers on the source locations
Wow, look how far our dinner travelled!

6. How do we calculate our food miles?
Mark the food’s location on your map. (source)
Draw a line from the source to Scotland.
Measure the line with your ruler.
Compare this to your scale bar.
Show example. Mark source location on map. Measure source to Scotland, using a ruler. Convert to km using scale bar. Give out small individual maps. Each student selects one food item and calculates food miles.
500km

7. Local vs. Long distance Which is better to eat?
Long distance food travels further, uses more energy and fuel and produces more fumes.
These fumes are bad for our health and for the environment.

8. EAT LOCALLY!

9. But keep Fair trade in mind..
We still need to support overseas farmers
Look out for this symbol!
We still need to support overseas farmers through Fair trade.

10. Our food travels so far…
Source:

11. Yet so much is wasted!

12. Yet so much is wasted!
30-50% of our food
is wasted!!

13. Homework
Task 1: When helping your parents with the shopping, look out for where food is from. Try to eat as local as possible! But remember we still need to support overseas farmers through Fairtrade. (bring into next class)

14. Homework FACT SOLUTION
Task 1: When helping your parents with the shopping, look out for where food is from. Try to eat as local as possible! But remember we still need to support overseas farmers through Fairtrade. (bring into next class)
Task 2: Research food waste and food waste solution. Report back one fact of each, on two separate pieces of card. Get creative and make your fact card colorful! (bring in for third class)
FACT
SOLUTION

15. Homework
Task 1: When helping your parents with the shopping, look out for where food is from. Try to eat as local as possible! But remember we still need to support overseas farmers through Fairtrade. (bring into next class)
Task 2: Research food waste and food waste solution. Report back one fact of each, on two separate pieces of card. Get creative and make your fact card colorful! (bring in for third class)
Task 3: Choose your favourite vegetable and fill out the vegetable fact file worksheet! (Questions 1-4)

16. HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!