Nursery World - Nursery Food: Food Production

Teaching children about where their food comes from nurtures
healthy eating and an understanding of the world. Annette Rawstrone
explains.

How the foods we eat are produced and arrive on our plates is not only a fascinating subject for early years children to explore but an essential foundation for making healthy eating choices later in life.

Lena Engel, early years education specialist, believes that learning about where food comes from helps children to 'make sense of the way the world works and make connections'. She says it is a subject rich with diverse learning opportunities - from knowledge about other countries and cultures to learning new vocabulary, watching plants and animals develop and seeing the transformation of food produce during the cooking process.

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