World Food Day - simple actions...

Chapter 3 of the Badger Book is about memorable teaching, and suggests that topics are often best taught to coincide with particular events or special days where the profile of that subject is higher, and there are more stories in the media to reinforce the relevance of the learning...
Today (October 16th) is World Food Day, so this would be a good event to tie in with teaching about food, agriculture, food aid and related topics from the GCSE specification....

For World Food Day

For example, a simple action for students to take in the lesson would be....

Watch this video and take the quiz - 3 simple questions to answer...
You can feed a child...

Do this with a group, using school e-mails and a group of children the same size will get a healthy meal.
Bear in mind that over 100 000 people in the UK have relied on Food Banks since April this year....

It's worth perhaps doing a quick 5-10 minute starter today...
Ask students to follow up three leads from the #worldfoodday feed on Twitter, and then 'feed'back to the class...