Four Seasons

• Food Cards*
• Four Seasons - pupil worksheet
• large sheets of paper for making a poster
• coloured markers

*If your school does not have a set of Food Cards, please request them from us at resources@fss.scot.

• prepare pupil worksheets
• gather resources for pupils to make seasonality charts

Technologies – ICT to enhance learning

DO – In making the seasonality chart, do pupils place foods in correct seasons?

DO – Do posters show an understanding of the benefits of eating in season?

MAKE – Does the meal make use of food in season?

Consider CfE Bencharks, for example:

• explain factors that could influence choice of food, for example media, poverty, peer pressure, seasonality

• explain to pupils the idea of 'seasonality', a term to describe when certain foods are harvested and at their best flavour
• pupils research or use the backs of the given food cards to fill in the seasons pupil sheet, listing foods that are in season in Spring, Summer, Autumn or Winter
• discuss with pupils why food can be better if it's eaten 'in season' locally –  for example, better flavour, freshness, reduced pollution coming from transporting foods from around the world, supporting local economy
• produce seasonality chart incorporated into a poster encouraging the eating of seasonal foods for display in local supermarket – if class has access to computers, pupils could use appropriate software to produce seasonality chart for the poster
• pupils are then challenged to plan, prepare and cook a healthy meal using food currently in season

Support

Pupils can be given recipes for meals which contain foods that are in season.

Challenge

Internet/library research to add foods to the Seasons sheet that are not included in the food cards.