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 Theme:
A. Introducing permaculture
B. Living nature
C. Design
D. Growing food
E. Built environment and resource use
F. Social permaculture 		Holistic planning (HP):
Eyes
Hands
Heart
Head 		Age:
3-6
7-12

Theme  Topic  Sub Topic Age HP Details
Preparing food Helping to prepare food and eating together Notice the differences in taste, colour and texture between boiling, steaming, frying and baking the same vegetable.
Preparing food Helping to prepare food and eating together Notice how long it takes for vegetables to grow - make a growth chart and record daily observations.
Preparing food Helping to prepare food and eating together Plant a garden that will provide all of the vegetables needed to prepare a special meal (which the children cook) for parents some weeks later.
Preparing food Helping to prepare food and eating together Cook following a traditional local recipe (from hundreds of years ago- before supermarkets and global trade - using only locally sourced ingredients.
Preparing food Helping to prepare food and eating together Prepare a meal to serve to someone in the community who is hungry (homeless, in poverty) - process the experience together afterwards, and talk about how it made you feel.
Preparing food Helping to prepare food and eating together Explore the question: Does putting our love into the food we cook make a difference? Use the rice experiment - put cooked rice in three jars, one labeled "love", one labelled "hate" and one that is blank. Ignore the blank one and then every day practice saying the word on the label several times. See if there is a difference in how fast the rice decomposes.
Preparing food Helping to prepare food and eating together Learn about nutrition and having a balanced diet with fruit, vegetables, proteins and carbohydrates. Can the children make up cool names for them or poems to help them remember?
Preparing food Helping to prepare food and eating together Learn about ancient traditions of food where you live - what did people eat before there were shops with food from all over the world?
Preparing food Helping to prepare food and eating together Find out about how far your food travels before you eat it (go to a supermarket and find out the countries where the ingredients for a meal came from) calculate how many miles were in your meal.
Preparing food Helping to prepare food and eating together Learn how to read a recipe by practicing together.

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