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Environments - OLERICULTURIST - VEGETABLE GROWERChinese Market Gardeners, the Gold Rush & Australian History Primary Middle Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability 1. In groups of 3 - 4 students, using the Expert Jigsaw Strategy, read and take notes on the following websites. Other resources: a.
Australian Food Timeline
2. Create a presentation about the Chinese Market Gardeners in Australia
Carrots: Girl Power: "Just Veg" Story Primary Middle Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Numeracy Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Sustainability Priority Cooperative Learning Activity
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Suggest that your group breaks up into pairs and reads either the original scrip or the report. What impressions did you get about this story? 2. Write down as many facts and figures contained in the transcript and report. What was the "problem" and what was the "solution"? 3. Look at the following video and add to your "report" from the transcript and report. The Just Veg. Story
4. Write down the Jobs the women had and how the skills from these jobs helped the new business "Just Veg". Put it into a simple table: Name of Woman, a picture of her [from Meet the Farmers' Wives], Current Job and Her Contribution to Just Veg. What are Female Perspectives? How did they help the business grow? 5. Read the "Just Veg" story from their website: Did the website tell the whole story accurately? 6. Look at the Mathematics of the business....
7. Brainstorm & write down as many other products that you think a busy family might buy using carrots? 8. As a class, discuss the business model of "Just Veg".
About "FEAST" Primary Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Sustainability Priority
Teacher FEAST is a Year 5 and 6 curriculum-aligned education program, inspiring kids to eat healthy, waste less and become change-makers in their local community. Like any good FEAST, it’s designed to be fun, engaging and filled with good food! It runs for 7-10 weeks and is aligned to the Australian Curriculum STEM and English Learning Areas. The program can be adapted to suit your school’s needs and can be delivered in an online learning environment. To run the program, teachers are encouraged to sign up to teacher training provided by OzHarvest – a professional learning teacher training day or an online training module that is quick and easy to complete. Schools also get access to online learning resources including 10 detailed lesson plans, student worksheets, videos, recipes books, the FEAST practical cooking guide and ongoing support from the FEAST team. For more details email FEAST@ozharvest.org
Primary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy
1. In groups of 3 - 4 students, create a list of all the vegetable names that you eat in your family or yourself or both! Put these vegetable names into alphabetical order and put them into your notebook. 2. Over the course of a month, tick off the vegetables that you have eaten each day. Add to the list if you hadn't listed a vegetable before but are now eating it. 3. Which ones do you like? 4. In a graph, show the name of the vegetable and the number of times you have eaten it over the month. 5. Have you grown any - tick off the list 6. As a class, work out who has 5 vegetables a day? Who has or is growing vegetables?
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