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Curriculum Links from the West Australian Curriculum

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Curriculum Links from the West Australian Curriculum

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The resources listed in this STEM Resource Kit relate to the following content descriptors from the Technology, Science and Health and Physical Education Curriculum.

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Students could create their compost by using an empty two-litre bottle. Students would collect dirt, old leaves, and food scraps to make their compost. Each day, students could observe and record what happens to compost as well as be able to grow a plant in the bottle as well.

Classroom Application:

It can be created while students are learning about different sustainable agricultural practices to help grow food crops.

Links to Sustainability:

Asking students to create their compost allows them to learn how they can support an increase in food production, thus improving the number of food available to the community, which supports achieving Zero Hunger by 2030.

Refer to the above instructions by PBS Kids for students to use to create their DIY compost.

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Worm Farms Australia | Pet Waste Composter | School Incursions | Foothills Sustainability Centre | Perth WA

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We pride ourselves on being a Worm Farm manufacturer utilising Australian sourced componentry. We are delighted to hear that our worm farms have been referred to as “Australia’s Best”! Our Worm Farms are the easiest way to begin successful worm composting using our unique wheelie bin worm farm syste…

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In September 2015, the United Nations adopted the ‘2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,’ which aims to improve peace and prosperity for all people around the world to achieve a ‘better future for all.’ The agenda listed 17 Sustainable Development Goals to address major global issues and strategies that countries can use and apply to achieve a ‘better future’ by 2030.

A particular goal described as part of the ‘2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is Goal 2: Zero Hunger. According to statistics, approximately 8.9 percent of the world population struggle with world hunger for various reasons. The United Nations listed a handful of strategies countries can adopt to help end hunger to address this global uprising issue.

The following sub-goals listed below are aims that the United Nations have listed to help achieve goal 2:

·   Ensuring access to nutritious and sufficient food all year round by 2030.
·   Addressing the nutritional needs of different demographic people such as children under five years of age.
·   Double the agricultural productivity.
·   Ensuring sustainable food production systems are used to main ecosystems

From these sub-goals, I have come upon the following ideas that can be addressed in a primary school setting, particularly for year 4s:

·   Improving food security
·   Avoiding food wastage
·   Improve agricultural production

In this STEM resource kit, I aim to address the above topics to address goal 2 and allow students to apply their knowledge from the range of resources listed in my STEM Resource Kit to make a positive difference in their learning journey.

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The Cross-Curriculum Priorities are essential aspects of the West Australian Curriculum as it equips “young Australians with the skills, knowledge and understanding that will enable them to engage effectively with and proposer in a globalised world (SCSA, 2020).” The West Australian Curriculum emphasises three priorities: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures, Asia’s and Australia’s Engagement with Asia and Sustainability.

Throughout this STEM resource kit, the cross-curriculum priority of sustainability is focused on and incorporated.

Sustainability is becoming a growing and relevant issue and challenge in our society today. For instance, in goal 2 of the Sustainable Development Goals, a current sustainability problem students may or will encounter the problem of global or local hunger. This complex social and economic issue poses different challenges. As a result, this priority is focused on and placed in the West Australian Curriculum as it encourages and educates students to develop solutions and practice sustainable living patterns that they can apply to their learning journey.

In this STEM resource kit, I have compiled a range of fantastic and insightful education resources that discuss the ongoing global issue of world hunger and how students can make a positive differenc

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The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough by Katie Smith Milway 

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The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough by Katie Smith Milway 

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The Good Garden by Katie Smith Milway is an enjoyable children’s literature that explores the theme of communities supporting one another in dealing with food insecurity by growing more food in their local community garden to avoid community members having low access to food.

Classroom Application:

Discuss how the characters from the book supported one another in improving food security.

It can be used as an introduction to the hands-on project to grow a class edible garden.

Link to Sustainability:
This book describes a potential strategy of growing a garden to increase food production, thus having more access to food. As a result, students can become aware of how they can create a positive difference in their lives and the community to end hunger by increasing access to food by growing a local edible garden. Overall, students are exposed to a sustainable practice of living.

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How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough

Paperback Published: 7th April 2020ISBN: 9781525304064
Number Of Pages: 32

For Ages: 8 - 10 years old

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From the best-selling author of One Hen comes the inspiring story of one struggling farming family in Honduras and their journey to growing enough food to meet their needs. Based on the real story of farm transformation underway in Honduras and many other countries, this book offers children ways they can be part of the movement to grow "good gardens" and foster food security.

Eleven-year-old Mar a Luz and her family live on a small farm. This year their crop is poor, and they may not have enough to eat or to sell for other essentials, such as health care, school uniforms and books.

When Mar a's father must leave home to find work, she is left in charge of their garden. Then a new teacher comes to Mar a's school and introduces her to sustainable farming practices that yield good crops. As Mar a begins to use the same methods at home, she too sees improvements, which allow her family to edge their way out of the grip of the greedy "coyotes" --- the middlemen who make profits on the backs of poor farmers. Little by little, the farms --- and the hopes --- of Mar a and her neighbors are transformed as good gardens begin to grow.

Industry Reviews

More about food security and sustainable farming closes this moving, informative entry in the publisher's CitizenKid line ...--Booklist
Taken at a literal level, this is a story of how sustainable farming practices can nourish families and the earth simultaneously. On a deeper level, it is about social justice and self-sustaining economies, which make this a book that can span a broader interest level. The stylized colored-pencil artwork is appropriately lush and idealized.--School Library Journal
Though the text is not simple, the appealing design will support less able readers.--Kirkus Reviews

ISBN: 9781525304064
ISBN-10: 1525304062
Series: Citizenkid
Audience: Children
For Ages: 8 - 10 years old
For Grades: 3 - 5
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 32
Published: 7th April 2020
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Country of Publication: CA
Dimensions (cm): 30.5 x 23.0 x 1.91
Weight (kg): 0.16

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Don't Waste Your Food by Deborah Chancellor & Diane Ewen

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Don't Waste Your Food by Deborah Chancellor & Diane Ewen

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Don't Waste Your Food by Deborah Chancellor and Diane Ewen introduce Amara, who wonders why her father said that 'they should never waste food.' Through this statement, Amara explores what happens to food wastage and seeks different strategies that she can do to reduce the amount of food wastage in her own home.

Classroom Applications:

Part of a class discussion on different strategies Amara used to reduce food wastage.

Students apply one of the strategies discussed in the above literature, such as creating meal plans that involve minimum food wastage.

Link to Sustainability:
The above children's literature exposes students to the importance and understanding of why 'they should never waste food.' Exposing students to this statement allows them to grasp the significance, thus finding relevance to why community and global hunger are ongoing issues. As a result, this book can motivate students to start thinking of what they can do to help improve goal 2 of the Sustainability Development Goals.

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Good to Be Green

Hardcover Published: 15th January 2020ISBN: 9780778772811
Number Of Pages: 32

For Ages: 6 - 9 years old

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Amara�s dad says they shouldn�t waste food. But why is this such a big problem? Follow their story and find out what happens to food waste, what can be composted, and how to reduce the amount of food we throw away.

ISBN: 9780778772811
ISBN-10: 0778772810
Series: Good to Be Green
For Ages: 6 - 9 years old
For Grades: 1 - 4
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 32
Published: 15th January 2020
Publisher: CRABTREE PUB
Dimensions (cm): 24.13 x 19.05 x 0.64
Weight (kg): 0.25

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Foodbank is considered to be one of the largest Australian hunger relief organisations. The food charity addresses the ongoing issue of food insecurity in Australia by providing food relief to more than a million people each month across Australia. In addition, Foodbank provides free school programs to eligible schools to help students to learn about good nutrition and having a healthy and balanced diet.

To help teachers to deliver an educational and insightful program about improving nutrition, Foodbank provides its online training program. It aims to provide learners with the skills and knowledge to offer an engaging and educational program that encourages students to have a balanced and a good nutritious diet.

Link to Sustainability:

Sustainability is addressed in this professional development program as it informs and educates learners about the potential strategies students could adopt and apply in their lives to help improve food insecurity and create healthy and nutritious meals. The above allows educators to gain the necessary knowledge to teach their students possible strategies to end hunger, which is considered one of the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals.

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Create a ‘low or no-waste’ lunch meal for the school canteen.

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Create a ‘low or no-waste’ lunch meal for the school canteen.

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Design Brief:

Our school canteen, The Snack Shop, is planning a new lunch menu! Miss Billie, the lunch lady, would like to start planning and creating meals that don't involve a lot of food wastage. You are to help Miss Billie to plan, design and create a 'no-waste' lunch meal for the school canteen.

Description:

This STEM project involves students creating their own 'no waste' lunch.

Investigate and Defining:

First, students would discuss whether their family or themselves are using any strategies to reduce the amount of food wastage. Students then research and record their findings on recipes or meals that involve low or no food wastage.

Generating and Designing:

Next, students would design their own' low or no waste' food meal by creating a recipe.

Producing and implementing:

Once students complete their recipes, students are provided with the opportunity to develop the meal by bringing ingredients from home.

Evaluate:

Finally, students would evaluate whether they followed the design brief's specifications. Students would also be provided with the opportunity to create suitable adjustments to meet the requirements of the design brief.

Links to Sustainability:

Students creating their own 'low or no-waste' meals allows students to learn to appreciate food while understanding the idea that different people from around the world struggle to receive food due to food insecurity. In addition, creating these meals allows students to learn and gain a practical strategy for reducing food wastage, thus supporting the goal of ending poverty.

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Design Brief:
Mr J, the gardener, has asked the students from Class A1 to help create a new edible garden to grow various vegetables and fruit. You are to investigate, design and create an edible garden that grows different types of vegetables and fruit that can be used to create and cook food later during the year.

Description:
Each student is to create an edible garden that grows different fruits and vegetables.

Investigate and Defining:

Students would first research potential fruits and vegetables that are best grown, depending on the season. In addition, different planting techniques are discussed as well to produce the fruits and vegetables best.

Generating and Designing:
Students then draw an annotated diagram of their edible garden to create their plan.

Producing and implementing:
Based on their annotated diagram, students would be given a mini pot of soil for students to plant the seeds of the chosen fruits and vegetables to create their edible garden.

Evaluate:
Once students have planted their seeds, students would evaluate whether they have followed the specifications of the design brief and make adjustments depending on the success of their edible garden.

Link to Sustainability:
Students creating their own edible garden support goal two as they learn to grow their fruits and vegetables to increase food production, thus supporting food security. As a result, students would make a positive difference by learning to grow more food, lowering the likeliness of community members feeling hungry due to food insecurity.

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Located in Wattle Grove, Foothills Sustainability Centre provides a range of opportunities for students to visit and learn about various sustainable living practices they can learn and apply in their learning journey. In addition, the centre offers its exclusive worm farming excursion/incursion to students to learn about reducing waste and worm composting.

Their incursion and excursion include students learning about worm composting and having a 'hands-on' experience with using and setting up a wheelie bin worm farm by placing their recess and lunch food scraps in the wheelie bin worm farm.

Links to Sustainability:

This incursion/excursion is a fantastic opportunity for students to be exposed to one of many important strategies they can do to improve food security in their local community by learning the value of food scraps for composting to grow food crops in its nutrient-filled soil. As a result, students would be exposed to two valuable, sustainable living practices to achieve goal two: Zero Hunger.

Integration of other parts of the West Australian Curriculum:

Relates to the Science Curriculum: Biological Sciences

(ACSSU073): Learning about the role of worms in composting, which provides nutrient-rich soil for growing food crops.

(ACSSU072): Learning about the life cycle of worms.

Incorporates different general capabilities:

Ethical Understanding: Allows students to be engaged with the ongoing issue of world hunger by learning about possible solutions to achieve goal two of the Sustainability Development Goals.

Critical and Creative Thinking: Students learn about worm composting and finding solutions to using it to help improve food security in their local community.

Excursion Details:

Venue Address: 48 Johnson Pl, Wattle Grove WA 6107

Cost: $25.00, including entry fee and travel expenses

Suitable for an individual class or a whole cohort.

Parent Helpers:

For one class with one teacher: 3 - 5 parent helpers

For three classes with three teachers: 5 - 7 parent helpers

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The above video briefly introduces Goal 2 of the Sustainability goals created by the United Nations. In addition, the video gives a glimpse of why global hunger is an ongoing issue. Two possible strategies are also described that are used by other young children to help support goal two, such as creating a garden and making healthy snack packs.

Usage in the classroom:

It can be used as an introduction video to goal two of the Sustainability Development Goals.

To support the facilitation of a Think-Pair-Share on why ending hunger is important, describe the two listed possible strategies to help end hunger.

Use to introduce the STEM project of making a mini edible garden.

Use to introduce the STEM project of making healthy snack packs.

Links to Sustainability:
Students are shown possible ways to do and practice contributing to more sustainable patterns of living, particularly towards ending hunger in their local community.

In addition, students would be able to learn and apply the shown strategies from the video to their learning journey to allow them to start making a positive difference in their community.

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ActPri_Take Action for Zero Hunger (Ages 5 - 11)

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Student explains how young people are taking action on Global Goal 2: Zero Hunger

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Digital Poster: Zero Hunger by Margreet De Heer

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Digital Poster: Zero Hunger by Margreet De Heer

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The above poster describes that many people worldwide have 'so much food that they waste some portions while others have 'too little.' To help define the statement, a diagram is shown and supported to provide a visual understanding of the statement. In addition, four strategies to help end world hunger are listed and briefly described in the poster.

Usage in the classroom:

Used to support students who are visual learners.

It can be used to brainstorm possible ways students can help to end hunger.

For example, students could create posters about how they can help reduce global hunger and use the above poster as an example.

Links to Sustainability:
Students are encouraged to think and ponder about the above statement, which promotes critical thinking on strategies that they can do to help reduce hunger in their community. The above four strategies are fantastic examples that support the overall topic of sustainability and how students can apply sustainable practices in their learning life, such as learning to grow and 'protect a variety of crops...'

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Make a class poster on possible strategies to reduce hunger.

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Make a class poster on possible strategies to reduce hunger.

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Description:

Students could create posters about ways that they can do to reduce hunger on an A3 piece of paper.

Possible strategies students could write and draw about:

Growing their edible garden to grow food crops

Compost food scraps to help create nutrient-filled soil

Place uneaten food in reusable containers to eat later

Cook meals that involve minimum food wastage

Classroom Application:

It can be used as a summative assessment to assess students' knowledge on ways that they can apply in their lives to help achieve Zero Hunger by 2030.

Links to Sustainability:

Asking students to create their posters support students' knowledge of how they can help reduce hunger in their community and worldwide. In addition, it allows students to be aware of the ongoing issue of world hunger and describe sustainable living practices that they can use and apply in their learning journey to address goal two of the Sustainability Development Goals.

Alternative activity:

Students could create a video to raise awareness of the ongoing issue of world hunger and promote different strategies that their peers can do to help reduce world hunger.

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Video: Advertisement from IKEA about food wastage

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Video: Advertisement from IKEA about food wastage

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The above 59 seconds video is an advertisement created by IKEA. The purpose of the advertisement is to show that during the Christmas and New Year period, many people across the globe throw away a large amount of food, thus increasing food wastage. Given the above, IKEA used computer graphics to show large pieces of wasted food falling from the sky to demonstrate the ongoing issue of food wastage.

Classroom Application:

It can be used as an engaging video to allow students to start critically thinking about the amount of food being wasted.

Students could then discuss one way that was shown in the video that they could do to prevent food wastage, such as using reusable food containers to solve uneaten food.

It can be used at the end of a lesson to summarise their knowledge of the amount of food wasted worldwide.

It can be used as a formative assessment of what they think is the strategy that IKEA used to prevent further food wastage.

Links to Sustainability:

Although the above advertisement was not created for educational purposes, the above multimedia raises awareness of the ongoing issue of food wastage worldwide. In addition, it highlights possible students could apply to save food, thus reducing food wastage. As a result, students would be exposed to one way of saving food, thus addressing how students could help contribute to achieving goal two of the Sustainability Development Goals.

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Health and Physical Education Curriculum

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Health and Physical Education Curriculum

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Students could donate food, such as canned fruits or vegetables, to food donation services such as OzHarvest, SecondBite and Foodbank.

Links to Sustainability:

Encouraging students to donate food to local food charities allows students to demonstrate one possible strategy to help reduce the number of people feeling hungry due to lack of food access, also known as food insecurity. As a result, students would be addressing their support in achieving zero hunger by 2030.

Alternative Approach:

This activity can be facilitated as a whole class or used as part of a whole school approach.

Images from:

Foodbank Australia | Fighting Hunger In Australia
https://www.foodbank.org.au

https://www.ozharvest.org/

https://secondbite.org/

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Save the Scraps by Bethany Stahl introduces Alex and Mateo, who are curious and want to learn about composting and its importance.

Classroom Applications:

It can be used to introduce the lesson idea of creating a compost bin.

Part of a review of a lesson about learning about composting.

Part of one of the pre-excursion activities before going to a local worm farm.

Link to Sustainability:
This simple but insightful children’s literature can be used to widen students’ knowledge of what composting looks like and the benefits of composting, such as having less food wastage going into the bin. As a result, students are exposed to one of many possible strategies they can use and apply in the future to help support goal two of the Sustainability Developments Goals to end hunger in their community.

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Discover the importance of composting with Alex and Mateo!

Educational and silly, Save the Scraps tells the story of two children who learn how to compost with the help of their wiggly worm friend.

With beautiful and charming illustrations, this is a book adults will love reading over and over again with their kids as readers learn about the benefits of compost. Save the Scrap's heartwarming lesson of environmentalism will stay with the reader for a lifetime.

Book Extras!

Identify scraps throughout the book!

Count flowers and bees in the story!

Answer reading comprehension questions!!

Learn how to start a compost bin!

You won't want to miss inspiring your precious little one with this brilliant composting tale!

Save the Scraps is the fifth book in the Save the Earth series!

Other books in the Save the Earth Series:

"Save the Ocean" by Bethany Stahl

"Save the Arctic" by Bethany Stahl

"Save the Bees" by Bethany Stahl

"Save the Land" by Bethany Stahl

Perfect for ages: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and up

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Educational and silly, Save the Scraps tells the story of two children who learn how to compost with the help of their wiggly worm friend. With beautiful and charming illustrations, this is a book adults will love reading over and over again with their kids as readers learn about the benefits of compost.

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