Lesson 3: A ‘peace’ of cake Background for teachers:
A meeting some years ago with Ray C. Anderson, a pio- neer of sustainability within the corporate sector, prompt- ed Jeremy to consider the link between sustainability and peace, and how Peace Day might be utilised to bring awareness to this critical issue. Peace One Day is excited to base this lesson plan around a cake recipe (Love Cake) by Alfred Prasad, one of the Great British Chefs (www. greatbritishchefs.com). We would like to thank Ocado for commissioning this fantastic recipe specifically for this lesson plan, and for their generous donation of all sale profits to Peace One Day from the purchase of this recipe on www.ocado.com.
Discovering the origins of the cake’s main ingredients provides an opportunity for young people to begin to think about where their food comes from, hopefully realising that far more work lies behind the food on their plate than a simple trip to the supermarket. We have de- signed this lesson with curriculum crossovers to Geogra- phy, Maths and ICT, and to be delivered over two days, culminating in a class baking session and tasting of the cake on or around Peace Day, 21 September.
Lesson aims:
• KS1 – pupils: know where places are on a map and recognise that these are connected to other places in the world by food.
• KS2 – pupils: can select appropriate sources from which to find the required information; appreciate the need to use mathematics in problem solving elsewhere in the curriculum; recognise how countries are dependent on one another for some of their food supply.
Learning outcomes:
• KS1 & KS2 pupils: know the country of origin for each of the cake’s main ingredients; can identify these countries on a map; understand that people buying food, to some extent, can choose where that food comes from.
• KS2 pupils: know the distance that each of the main cake ingredients has travelled; know the total distance travelled by the main ingredients of the cake they are making or might have made; know that this distance is referred to as ‘food miles’.