Plays and drama resources - the crunch - primary resources

Aimed at primary learners these five plays explore biodiversity, healthy eating, sustainability and the environment. They contain roles for everyone in a class, music and sound effects and guidance for performance.

Written in collaboration with research scientists they all contain important messages about   ‘our food, our health and our planet’.

The plays are:

Basmati Basmati- explores biodiversity through movement and music.

Beloved Burger- explores the impact of eating so much meat and helps pupils understand the effect that this has on their planet.

Day of Temptation- a fun exploration of what pupils face every day through the temptations of the unhealthy food around them.

For Richer, For Poorer- explores how we can both under- and over-eat and what this does for our health. This play looks at food in India but resonates with other countries across the world.

The Lament of the Green Bean- explores how other countries provide food for us in the UK and the impact this has on the environment.

This resource has been produced as part of The Crunch, created by the Wellcome Trust to promote learning and discussions about our food, our health and our planet. By examining our relationships with food, and exploring cutting edge research, we can think about how we can eat in ways that can keep our planet and ourselves healthy.