Hilary Bradford, Monarch Cakes, 2011, exhibition print from digital file, printed 2012
Use these digital learning tools and websites to support your teaching of the Food & identity, Food supply and Eating in inquiry units.
Food & identity resources
- Food & identity – theme overview
- Immigration Museum Identity exhibition: 'What we eat' – image gallery explores the connection between food and identity
- La Tosca pasta story, Museum Victoria – follows the life of the Italian migrant family, the Borghesi's, who started the La Tosca pasta company
- Mem Fox on writing a picture book – provides advice on writing children's book
- Neat Solutions for Healthy Children – lists multicultural children's storybooks that explore the links between food and identity
- Reconciliation Australia – Reconciliation Action Plans for schools, based on building good relationships and respecting the special contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to Australia
Food supply resources
- Food supply – theme overview
- CERES Community Environment Park – the Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies website includes resources about fair food and community action
- Department of Primary Industries – information about Victorian agriculture
- ABC Rural: Whistleblowing leads to ethical farming – an article and podcast about using ethical approaches to farming
- Fair Trade Association – see the fairtrade education kit for Years 5–8
- Victorian Farmers' Markets Association – spotlights local Victorian produce and markets, and includes a glossary of food terms to help consumers make informed choices about the foods they buy
- Global Education teacher resources: Food security – case studies and teaching resources about global food security
- Melbourne Seasonal Eating – recipes for cooking seasonal Victorian produce
- Oxfam UK 'Food for thought' resources – teachers' guides and activity sheets for examining the global food supply system and how it can be made fairer.
- Queen Victoria Market – book a school visit with a tour guide
- Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne teacher resources – the Aboriginal Resource Trail teachers kit includes extensive information the food supply of the Kulin people in Victoria
- Slow Food Melbourne – information about the slow food movement
- Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation – innovative education model for Years 3–6 students, teaching them to grow, harvest and prepare seasonal food
- Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation: What's in season – up-to-date list of seasonal produce
- Sustainable Melbourne – extensive information on food supply and ethical food movements in Melbourne
- Sustainable seafood guide – download from the Sustainable Table website
- 'Hungry planet: what the world eats' Part 1 and Part 2 – photographs presenting what families around the globe eat each week
- The Little Veggie Patch Co – resources for creating an edible garden
- The Locavore Edition – Victorian produce index
Eating in resources
- Eating in – theme overview
- CSIRO Science By Email – science experiments that explore taste
- Better Health Channel: Healthy eating for kids
- Better Health Channel: Lunch box recipes
- Fresh for Kids – healthy lunchbox ideas
- Teaching Children Philosophy – an engaging discussion plan that encourages thinking about the act of sharing, through the traditional tale Stone soup
- Charlie and the chocolate factory – a classic novel by Roald Dahl with decadent descriptions of sweets
Online tools
- 3 Things for schools – a blog detailing the positive actions students are taking to address global issues
- ACMI storyboard generator – build your own storyboard online
- Bubbl.us – online brainstorming and mind-mapping tool
- Create a Graph – a range of easy-to-use online graphing tools
- ergo – a State Library of Victoria website with research skills for students
- Glogster – an interactive poster-making tool for students and teachers
- Google Docs – a free online presentation tool
- Apple Keynote – software for creating presentations
- Little Robot – an interactive story-building tool
- Pin in the map – a sharable mapping tool that can be used to locate and label places
- Tristan Bancks' story scrapbook – a brainstorming app for creative story-writing
- VELS teaching strategies – teaching strategies that encourage higher order thinking
Recipe books in the Library's collection
These recipe books can be viewed online.
