New Zealand Schools OER Portal/Curriculum/Environmental Education/Produce Shield
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Goal
- To promote the growing of produce by children at home
- To demonstrate the closed cycle of sowing, tendering, harvesting, eating and replanting
Two seeds were distributed at the beginning of term 4 to every pupil
The student instructions are:
- In spring/summer place a __________ seed in damp soil at a depth equal to that of the seed
- Water it
- Feed it compost or manure
- Harvest
- Have a meal and write down the recipe
- In Autumn bring back your recipe, pictures and samples of your produce for use as seeds for next year
Seeds suitable for the competition are: beans, peas, potatoes, corn, pumpkin, melon etc
The Produce Shield Winner will need to:
- Demonstrate age appropriate skills (younger students will need greater adult assistance) in all three areas - recipe, plant growing (picture/photos evidence) and seed growing
- Create drawings or digital photos of their plant during its growing cycle on an A4 paper
- Write a child friendly recipe that is suitably illustrated on an A4 paper
- Return seeds in a recycled envelope with the name of the student and dated
- Judges may be teachers, garden club members or an expert
- Warrington School Bean Recipe Example
