Market Matters: What We Need to Feed a Nation (UNSG 2 ZERO HUNGER)
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Creative Practitioner Name: Claire Davenhall Creative Practitioner Practice: Visual ArtistSchool: Rostrata Primary School Teacher: Nick Barnett Year Group: 5 Number of students: 32 In this integrated project, Year 5 students explore the difference between needs and wants through the lens of food, culture, and trade. Students will investigate how food markets operate in Australia and Asia, and consider how supply shortages, economics, and trade influence what’s available to communities. The unit will include real-world Maths applications (budgeting, pricing, and data), cultural exploration of food traditions, and a creative challenge: designing and running a simulated multicultural food market at school.WARM up Meet Claire and introduce the Creative Habits Find the creative you. Students draw themselves and label how they use the creative habits in their daily lives, think of when they collaborate (playing sports) or are persistent ( green thumbs at growing veggies) or are inquisitive (asking Google lots of questions) etc.... Then we can ask them to share their drawing with the person sitting next to them for 2 minutes. It's a great way to get to know the group! |
Main Activity (one photo)
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Make Needs/Wants poster In pairs each choose a ‘destination’ and create a poster with the needs and wants of that destination. Destinations: Antarctica, Tropical Rainforest (Amazon), Desert (Sahara), Deep Ocean (underwater research station), Mount Everest Base Camp, Outer space (International space station), Arctic tundra, Dense Urban City (Tokyo, New York, London), Remote Island (Galapagos, Pacific Atoll), Savannah (African grasslands), Jungle village (Papua New Guinea) and Volcanic Region Then they paired up with another group and created a Venn diagram and compare the differences and similarities between the needs and wants of the two different destinations. We guided them with prompting questions: What are the absolute essentials for surviving in this destination? Which items would make life easier but are not strictly necessary? If you could only bring three things, what would they be and why? How do people who live in this environment adapt to their surroundings?What are the biggest challenges people face in this destination? How would extreme weather affect your needs? If you were stranded here, how would you find food and water? What would you do if your most important survival item got lost? |
Reflection with the students (one photo)
As a reflection they have to tell us which creative habit they used in this task and we can give them their first tokens which they placed in their piggie bank jars and save for market food day! |
Paste your photo here.
After the session:
Planning with the Teacher
(refer back to your original Term Plan document, discuss successes, explore challenges and make changes.)
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We didn't get chance to Divide the students into 5 groups - each group cuts out creative token/coin and hide a them for another group to find. Each week students will gain a creative habit token/coin and place them in their piggie bank jars and save for market food day! |
Working with students
(what is emerging, what is engaging them/not, what’s making them curious.)
They all had very interesting creative you pictures, we decided to stick them on their folders. |
Ideas moving forward
(ideas for next session, future lessons, discussed with teacher, do you need the teacher to do anything before you return.)
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We will look at supply and demand - Asia and Australia food (Basic and Luxury/ Yummy and Yucky) to create Food fusion ideas. Rank the foods. Supply challenge there is a drought and the rice has run out… the sea is polluted you can not eat seafood! NOW ADAPT your ideas… Create 3 ideas and then a final idea |
Resources
(do you need anything, who will source it?)
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30 circles template - to brain storm ideas Cards- to create a game 3 basic and 3 luxury ingredients |
How can you share learning outcomes/stories of transformation with the wider school community (e.g. Connect newsletter, staff meeting, school newsletter, school social media platforms)
News letter… we have started Creative Schools and year 5 student ill be working with Creative Practitioner Claire Davenhall |
