Eating a rainbow
This Eat a rainbow program set out to change children’s perception about food. The program encourages children to explore fresh and healthy foods in all the colours of the rainbow.
Food
Grinding grains with children
Take a look at the different technologies you can use to grind grains with children including grinding rocks, mortar and pestle and coffee grinders then explore the textures produced.
Food for thought
Heike reflects on entering philosophical inquiry with children. Engaging children in ethical conversations equips them with essential life skills such as critical thinking.
Critically thinking about capsicums
In this age of free-flowing information and fake news, there lies an opportunity to cultivate critical thinking skills. Skills that are far more important for today’s education and children’s futures than just knowing the facts.
Going bananas
While unpacking the groceries together, my five-year-old queried how long it would take for the bananas to be ripe enough to eat, providing a perfect entry point to developing a science experiment.
How do dinosaurs eat their food?
The retro-feel illustrations that offer many impulses for explorations, from design and technologies to different species’ diets.
I hear a pickle
Depicting familiar sounds, smells, objects and foods, the author establishes connections between senses and emotional responses.
No good crying over spilt milk
This is a lovely design and technology experience. Children can look at the table setting and decide what objects are ‘fit for purpose’: What is it about the jug that makes it easy to pour? They learn about table settings, whether the knife goes on the right or left. What if you are left-handed?
Avocado baby
The baby in this story grows ridiculously strong from eating avocados, so much so that he can fight off burglars and move furniture around.
