Cooking dinner

Year level:Lower/Middle Primary Learning outcome Students will compare the way meals are cooked in their homes with cooking on a fuel-efficient stove in India. Draw a picture or take a photo of a person cooking dinner at your house. • Who is doing the work? • What equipment is being used? • What energy is being used? Draw a flow chart showing how one item of food gets to your home. Draw another flow chart showing how the energy used for cooking is created and gets to your home. Examine the photos and read the captions to answer the following questions: A woman in Gujurat, India, cooking chapattis (flat bread) on a fuel-efficient stove. Antony Funnell /AusAID • Who is doing the work? • What equipment is being used? • What energy is being used? • Why do you think the stove is called a fuel-efficient stove? (Hint: Look at how much wood is being used.) These people are collecting firewood for cooking. It will be loaded onto a truck and taken to the village. People will buy the wood to use as fuel for their stoves. David Haigh/AusAID • What are the people doing? • Where will the firewood be taken? • How will the firewood be used? • Why would the firewood be used for cooking? Draw a flow chart showing the process from the time the wood is gathered to the time it is used for cooking. Create a PMI comparing your family’s stove with a fuel-efficient one.   Assessment task Make a statement about how these different stoves affect the environment and people’s lives.