Chemicals in our food

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LENScience Connect Teacher Professional Development and National Education Event

Chemicals in our food: A Context for Year 7 - 10 Science

Teacher Professional Development presented by LENScience in conjunction with the Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury


The last 100 years has seen the development of a vast array of new chemicals that have changed the world around us – the paints for our cars, the plastics to pack our food in, the red dyes on the MacDonald’s fries packet, the batteries for our cell phones, the yellow dyes we give our hens to make sure they lay yellow-yoked eggs, and so on, and so on… The problem is that every day we are all exposed to hundreds, if not thousands, of different chemicals from the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink. The question is what are all these chemicals doing to us and should we be worried?

This professional development seminar will:

  1. introduce teachers to the science behind environmental pollutants
  2. discuss implications
  3. outline the potential to use this context in teaching
  4. present resources to support the use of this context in Year 7-10 Science


Date: Thursday 18th November, 2010
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Venue: Broadcast Live via Satellite TV or the National Education Network from the Fisher & Paykel Auditorium - Owen G Glenn Bldg, 12 Grafton Rd, Auckland

Presenters: Professor Ian Shaw | Jacquie Bay

Audience: Year 7 -10  Science teachers

Curriculum links:

New Zealand Curriculum Science Level 3-5

  1. Nature of Science: Understanding About Science; Participating and Contributing
  2. Material World: Chemistry and Society
  3. Living World: Ecology


Student Workshops

We are also running workshops for Year 7 - 10 students to introduce them to this context. 


Click here to download the the student workshop seminar.

You can also view the seminar by clicking on the play button below.



Teacher Resources

Resources to help use Environmental Toxins as a context for teaching and learning are available here.


Participating in the Professional Development

Watch the Professional Development Seminar

Click here to download the teacher professional development seminar.

You can also view the seminar by clicking on the play button below.




Post a question for the professional development seminar

  1. If you would like to ask a question about the seminar paper please click here.



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