Education+for+Sustainability

//Nā tō rourou, nā taku rourou ka ora ai te iwi. // //With your food basket and my food basket the people will thrive. //
 * Workshop Outline: Waste Not Want Not **

Participants will learn how to use the Mathematics and Statistics Curriculum in the NZC to help students understand savings they can make economically and environmentally.
 * Expected Outcomes: **


 * 1) Look in the fridge – what gets used; what is wasted? [|Data squares.]
 * 2) Read newspaper article Sunday Star Times 13-11-11 [|“Wasteful Kiwis still biffing costly fruit and vegetables.”]Show percentages on the abacus and play ‘ripper bingo’ (file below).
 * 3) Shopping coupons – record the cash price for that item
 * 4) Rounding and compensating – add 2 or 3 items efficiently and state the eftpos price
 * 5) Use Slavonic abacus and estimate the economic waste 10% or 20% etc is left unused.
 * 6) What could it be used for? Handy recipes to turn throw a ways into quick nutritious food e.g. soup, nachos; muffins, quiche
 * 7) Junior Master chef – using what’s in the fridge and garden/ or food in a minute without the cans
 * 8) [|Link to Te Reo]
 * 9) Making the most of your freezer; leftovers for lunches or frozen for quick dinners
 * 10) Venn diagrams (freeze, compost, cook, lunch).
 * 11) What about the packaging waste – link to [|Waste Timeline Illustration]
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Create a game with coupons and garden pictures; spinner freeze, compost, cook etc

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Equipment:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">shopping coupons
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">place value money
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">fridge picture
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Slavonic abacus
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">waste timeline
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Illustration (copies)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">dice
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">gameboard
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">postits (to record the things that are most often left in your fridge



CC - happy for people to use this. Please acknowledge that the workshop overview and game cards were created by Louisa Linterman at Accent Learning. For any clarification you can contact me on lgracel@xtra.co.nz