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Description

Forage through our food chain to find some popular foods we eat and discover where they come from.

Activity from scouts.org.uk
https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/go-where-it-grows/

Resources

A4 paper
Pens or pencils
Coloured pens or pencils
Sticky tack

OR

Print attached posters

Instructions

Stick up the set up
The person leading the activity should use pens and paper to make signs that show places where food grows.
Each sign should be fixed up with sticky tack somewhere around the meeting place.
There should be a sign for each of the following: Field, Farm, Plant, Animal, Sea, Trees, Jungle, Underground, Bushes, River.

Find the food
1. The person leading the activity should ask the group to think about what they had for breakfast that day. They should try to imagine where the food they ate came from.

2. When everyone has thought about this, pick some volunteers to talk about what they ate and where they think it came from (e.g. ‘cereal’ from a field, ‘milk’ from a cow).

3. The person leading the activity should show the group the signs that they have fixed up around the meeting place. Explain that each one represents a different place that food comes from.

4. The person leading the activity should look at the ‘Go where it grows’ table below. They should read out a food item from the ‘Food’ column.
When they hear the name of the food, everyone should move close to the sign that says where that food comes from (e.g. for ‘potato,’ everyone should move towards the signs that say ‘underground,’ ‘plant’ or ‘field.’).
There is likely to be more than one place that the food comes from. Let the group choose for themselves and debate which groups are right for the food item and which are wrong.

5. When everyone has chosen a sign, the person leading the activity should read out the correct answer(s) and also the information in the third column, before moving on to the next food item. Continue until every food item has been read out.

Tags

• Farming
• Food awareness
• Food origins

Badge Links

• Let It Grow - Fruit and veg
• Super Chef - Origins