Learning in Action (Fresh Food at Forest Hill)

To begin our learning process we decided on the healthy dessert that we would like to create and share with the other Juniors at our school.Our class decided to buy ingredients to make a fruit salad. We made a shopping list of all the fruits we would like to buy for our salad. Then we talked about our budget and how some fruits are more expensive than others. We decided to buy more of the cheaper fruits. Our next task was to think about the utensils that we would need to make and serve our dessert.
We walked to our local shopping centre, Forest Hill Chase. It took us about 45 minutes to get there. While we were there we visited the butcher, baker, fish shop, asian grocers and fruit and vegetable shop. We were looking at the types of fresh food these outlets sold. We were lucky enough to taste some fresh bread, fresh fruit and shell fish. Yum!
We bought our fruit and then caught the bus back to begin our cooking. Some of the mums stayed and helped us to prepare our fruit for the salad.
We enjoyed a shared lunch of dips, sandwiches and fruit salad all bought and created by us - the students!
This was one of the best learning experiences that we have had because we were a 'real' part of the inquiry process.

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