Technologies · Year 6 · Design and Technologies: Sustainable Engineering and Food Systems · Extension Unit
Food Production and Choice
Students investigate how food choices affect health, environment, and culture, and how production technologies shape what is on our shelves.
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Students investigate how food choices affect health, environment, and culture, and how production technologies shape what is on our shelves.
Key Questions
- What does a balanced school lunch look like, and why is it hard to deliver at scale?
- How does food technology change the nutrition of what we eat?
- Which food production decisions have the greatest environmental footprint?
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