Rational
Food uses an innovative, cross-curricular approach to healthy
eating, science and history in primary and secondary schools.
Using archival material from the Rowett Research Institute,
it traces how rationing in World War II relates to current
issues about healthy eating. It includes extensive teacher’s
notes, photocopiable resources, relevant video clips and printable
resources on a DVD. The publication uses a highly creative
approach, including many activities based on active assessment
strategies, to challenge children’s ideas about nutrition
and diet. It contains extensive links to the National curriculum
of England and Wales, and to the Scotland 5-14 curriculum
(and will also meet the needs of the Curriculum for Excellence).
The
resource is based on the landmark work of Sir John Boyd Orr,
the founding Director of the Rowett Institute. Orr was the
first scientist to show a link between poverty, poor diet
and ill health. It was the Carnegie Survey of Pre-war Diet
and health which Orr led in the late 1930s which was used
to help formulate the WWII food rationing system. Examples
of food diaries from this study are included in the resource,
and John Boyd Orr’s fictional diaries (written and video)
are used a narrative link throughout the resource. You can
read more about the life and work of John Boyd Orr by clicking
here
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