Food provenance and sustainable choices
Food choices connect farms, fisheries, factories, transport, workers, ecosystems and household budgets.
Lesson overview
What you'll learn in this lesson
Explain provenance, seasonality and sustainability
Key learning points
- • Trace the chain
- • Compare thoughtfully
This lesson at a glance
- 25 minutes
- 10 parts to scroll through
- 3 quick checks
- Marked quiz at the end
- Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses
Words to know
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Food provenance and sustainable choices
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In a nutshell
Explain provenance, seasonality and sustainability
Explore the idea
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Learn
Trace the chain
Provenance means where food comes from and how it was produced. Processing can improve safety and access but also uses energy and packaging.
Explore the idea
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Learn
Compare thoughtfully
Seasonality, waste, production method, nutrition, affordability and transport all matter. Food miles alone do not tell the whole environmental story.
Quick check
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Quick check
What does provenance mean?
Quick check
Part 5 of 10
Quick check
Do food miles show every impact?
Quick check
Part 6 of 10
Quick check
Which reduces household impact?
Challenge round
Part 7 of 10
Game · Sort it
Which of these are true?
Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.
True
Not true
Challenge round
Part 8 of 10
Game · Fill the gaps
Finish the sentences
Choose the word that belongs in each gap.
____ means where food comes from and how it was produced.
____, waste, production method, nutrition, affordability and transport all matter.
Mastery quiz
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Marked quiz
End of lesson quiz: Food provenance and sustainable choices
3 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.
1. What does provenance mean?
2. Do food miles show every impact?
3. Which reduces household impact?
Lesson round-up
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Your written work for this lesson
This is the part you'd do in your book at school. Pick the pieces below, write here or on paper, and photograph anything you draw or work out.
Why the first prototype broke
A team designed a phone stand from 3 mm plywood. The brief said it must hold a 200 g phone at 60° and survive being knocked. The first prototype looked right but snapped at the joint after two knocks.
The team tested again and found the grain of the plywood ran across the narrowest part of the joint, so the wood split along it. They widened the joint from 8 mm to 20 mm, turned the piece so the grain ran along the load, and added a small fillet at the corner to spread the force.
The second prototype survived twenty knocks. It used 15% more material and took four minutes longer to cut — a trade-off the team recorded in their evaluation.
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Reading questions
- Name the fault in the first prototype and explain why it happened.
- List the three changes the team made and what each one does.
- Write an evaluation of the second prototype against the brief, including the trade-off.
Design sheet
DiagramSketch two ideas with measurements and notes, then photograph the sheet.
2 labelled sketches
Evaluation
WritingWrite how well your idea meets the brief and what you would change next time.
6–8 sentences
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