Community and Health - NUTRITIONIST
You
are what you poo: how to read your stools
Middle
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Literacy
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
Cooperative
Learning Activity
1. As a group of 3 - 5 students, take it in turns
to read a paragraph of the following article from
The Conversation 17 July 2024
2. List 10 important facts that the group has come up with.
3. As a group, put these 10 facts in order from most important to least important.
4. Do you all agree? Why? Why not?
5.
Reflection: What have you learnt about your own body? (personal - not to be shared)
Whey
- What to do with it? Your thinking!
Primary
Middle
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Literacy
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Numeracy
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
Australian
Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Sustainability
Priority
Cooperative
Learning Activity
1. In groups of 3 - 5 students, read the following article from The Conversation 22 October 2024 and answer the following questions:
a. What is Whey?
b. Why should we save it?
c. What losses are happening in Australia with whey?
d. How much whey is produced each day in Australia? A guessamate!
2. In the Bega Valley, NSW, they are trying to have a circular economy - limiting waste!
Reported in
ABC News - "Bega's bid to become a circular economy to reduce waste"
21 July 2024 it is stated: "A new evaporator, extracting milk minerals
worth $5,000 a tonne from liquid whey waste, paid for itself in year,
and 1.2 million litres of waste water daily irrigates hay pastures."
What are the possiblities for farmers to take on the same type of project?
Do you want to revise your guessamate of the amount of water that could be re-used in Australia each month? Year?
3. On 18 September 2024, Dairy News Australia's article "Dairy processors making headway in sustainability" had a different way of using whey....
"In an Australian first for the dairy industry, Australian Consolidated Milk in Girgarre is utilising an anaerobic digestion system to convert whey permeate, a by-product of the cheese-making process, into biogas — a clean and sustainable energy that will eventually power their whole plant."
What is biogas? When can it be used?
4.
Secondary
Only Material. Teachers can summarise for younger classes.
How does this article expand your ideas on using
whey? What products are discussed?
5. All students
As a group, decide which ONE use for whey is the most beneficial after reading the material and also thinking about the problem of whey yourselves.
6. Make a presentation to the class of your ideas.
7. As a Nutritionist or Health Promotion Officer, what do you now know about the benefits of whey?
