Post-work: Educational film and assignments
All people eat food. Today's food plants have been cultivated over thousands of years, refined and selected to produce plants that provide abundant and tasty food. This is how we developed plants that look different from their wild ancestors. We cultivated many different varieties, with their own unique characteristics.
Different food plants with different properties
Some food plants were grown because they could withstand frost or were rarely eaten by pests. Some were grown because they were especially good to eat. Some were perhaps grown simply because they looked different. This is how we ended up with a large toolbox, with many different varieties and gene combinations that had their own advantages and disadvantages.
The goal of the film is for students to
- repeat concepts within plant heritage, genetic resources and food production
- see the bigger picture of which food production is a part
- initiate brainstorming and discussion points
Important concepts
Some of the concepts that students will review through watching the educational film are:
- Genes, plant breeding , variety development
- Gene bank and utility gene bank
- Genetic diversity, varietal diversity and species diversity
- Soil organisms
- Climate adaptation
- Food safety and preparedness
- Beneficial insects and harmful insects
- Disease resistance
- Wild relatives
- Pollinators
Competency goals
Here you can read more about the competency objectives on which the educational film is based.
Post-processing
After you have watched the film, you can continue to delve into the topic. Here you will find a follow-up assignment that brings together the threads and allows you to discuss the topic in class. It is also suitable as a start for a larger project. Download the assignment and support structure below.
Follow-up work – points for discussion
Post-processing – Support structure
Furthermore, we have made four different suggestions for follow-up work: