This resource is designed to provide the teacher with ready-to-use activities to promote sustainability
in home economics at Levels 5 and 6. Activities can be varied to suit either level. To fully imbed the
concept of sustainability a whole-school approach is essential and the concepts of sustainability should
be ongoing and not a once only lesson. These activities demonstrate a multi-domain approach. Where
an integrated approach is possible there is flexibility in the activities for this to occur.
In this resource students investigate the impact that food choices make on the environment. A range
of food is prepared to demonstrate how different choices have different impacts on the environment.
Students will develop an appreciation that good choices are an important part of everyday life now and
into the future, and that there are many options for sustainable alternatives that are easily prepared and
economical. In these activities there are opportunities for students to work individually or as a group to
design, plan, produce and evaluate food. They can work with design briefs to achieve solutions to design
brief challenges.