Lesson Plan: Social Consequences of Food Consumption
Learning Goals
(by the end of the session, students will be able to...)
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Explain the meaning of food consumption
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Connect food consumption choices to social consequences
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Comprehend the connection between food and social consequences
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Summary of Tasks
Introduce the topic of the social consequences of our choices. What is the social function of food? Ask the students' opinion. Can they think and talk about social influences on eating?
Deepening into food and social life using specific resources from the website.
Focus on the specific issue of food and its social effects. Discuss how our food choices can affect us at a social level and even our status. Ask your students about their personal experiences and how social issues affect their eating behaviour. Use resources from the website
Introduce the RESPECT serious game to the students. Use the guide for the Implementation plan and open the game in the classroom so that students get used to the game environment.
Online interactive learning materials (food habits resources – video and the ideas in experiments and challenges task 1 may be particularly helpful)
Online interactive learning materials (the discussion may connect to cultural issues around meat and dairy consumption, or alternative choices, or you could connect it to cultural responses to food waste).
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RESPECT Serious Game
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RESPECT Serious Game Implementation Plan
Resources
Estimated Time
Task
Explain the goal and the gameplay.
RESPECT Serious Game Implementation Plan
Give the assignment for home.
10 minutes
8 minutes
15 minutes
5 minutes
5 minutes
2 minutes
Assignment
Ask the students to play the game at home. The goal is to make food consumption choices that will enable them to collect as many social points as possible.
After they finish the game, ask them to prepare a presentation about their results.
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Things to include in the presentation:
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Which food consuming fact they discovered while playing the game surprised them the most?
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Do they apply some of their in-game choices in their real life? If not, are they willing to do so?
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Or ask them to undertake one of the food habits, take a stance or experiments and challenge tasks and report back on the outcomes.