'Food Glorious Food' Tool Kit for Eco Heroes (Primary)

It is absolutely essential that today’s children understand the importance of looking after our planet and what they can do to help protect it for future generations. At It’s Our Planet Too, our vision is for every child to believe that they have the power to protect our planet. Our Tool Kits For Eco Heroes are designed to help children learn and understand the world where we live and ignite their interest in protecting it.

Research suggests that both educators and young people care deeply about environmental issues and have a strong desire to protect our planet. Environmental issues such as climate change, decreasing biodiversity, habitat destruction and pollution are huge global issues, however the thought of teaching them can be intimidating, leaving many feeling overwhelmed. Our Tool Kits provide a comprehensive, cost effective and easy solution for educators. They offer hours of activities, news and information that gently explains key issues and links to the National Curriculum.

Our food glorious food Tool Kit is packed with hours of fun activities to help you take action and save our environment. We’ll help you learn how the food we choose to eat can have a big impact on our beautiful planet and have lots of fun too. Before long you’ll be a green food expert…

Here’s what’s inside:

Follow our top tips to grow your own kitchen garden, whatever space you have. We’ll go on a food journey and see how far your favourite food travels, our recipe uses up our kitchen leftovers to bake crostini crust pizzas and whizz your own smoothies and our eco hero card features an entrepreneur on a mission to save wonky fruit and veg. Our I Spy card gives you loads of ideas of little foody changes you can make to help our environment, plus you’ll find a postcard to help you start a campaign to stop food waste and a plant power card to show you how to re-grow vegetables from stumps, scraps and peel. There’s also a quiz to test your green food knowledge, a pledge card and 20 foody facts facts to wow your friends. There’s also 2 activity cards packed with eight fun puzzles so you can start becoming a food warrior immediately!

Activities include raiding the recycling box to make a selection of plant labels, crafting your own orangutan puppet, instructions for building your own composter (big or small) and an amazing science experiment to show you what happens to our food waste!

There’s also a little something for grown-ups inside to help you answer any foody questions as well as a useful glossary.

Bonus online content: Once your little eco hero has completed the activities, they can download a certificate to show their friends that they are a real ECO expert! (QR code included in file)