Fertilisers in Food Production (Interdisciplinary Learning)

Brief project covering both the life cycle of plants and where food comes from. The project involves growing baked beans ingredients and includes different recipes for having a baked bean “bake-off”. This resource contains a class workbook and a practitioner’s guide.

Educational Level 2
(SCN 2-02b, SCN 2-03a, SCN 2-14a, HWB 2-35a)

This resource is a project covering both the lifecycle of plants and where food comes from. The project involves growing baked beans ingredients and includes different recipes for having a baked bean “bakeoff”. The resource covers the following topics:

• Where food comes from
• How food grows?
• How climate affects food production
• How seasons affect food production
• How chemicals affect our food

This resource was created as part of the GeoScience Outreach Course which is a 4th year undergraduate course in the School of GeoSciences aiming to provide students with the opportunity to develop their own science communication and engagement project.

This resource was originally designed for South Morningside Primary School.

Author: Emma Fairlie, adapted by Stephanie (Charlie) Farley.
Unless otherwise stated, all content is released under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Cover image is Baked beans in tomato sauce by Mk2010 (Wikimedia) is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.