All resources are available free from The Vegetarian Society. To order
them or find out more, call 0161 925 2000, e-mail education@vegsoc.org or fill in the order form
Free educational resources are available within the UK only.
If you have any tried and tested resources that other teachers might find useful please send them to us via education@vegsoc.org
Project Booklet for
Schools
This has been especially written for students studying Food Technology. It covers
a range of important areas including nutrition, menu planning, designing and
packaging of vegetarian foods, alternative sources of protein, basic facts about
vegetarianism, and useful addresses for further research. This booklet is available online or
as a hard copy free from The Vegetarian Society.
Healthy Eating for Vegetarians - Healthy Eating for Vegetarians – a concise booklet on nutrition, endorsed by Dr Mark Porter.
Healthy Eating Quiz - If you get stuck on a question use our "Food Comparisons" and "Do You Get The Balance Right?" posters to help you find the answers! Scroll down to see these posters.
Click here for an online version of the Young Veggie Healthy Eating quiz.
Why It's Green to Go Vegetarian quiz - What we choose to eat can be one of the biggest factors on the environment. Test how much you know here. If you get stuck you can find all of the answers in our Why It's Green to Go Vegetarian booklet (below!).
Why It's Green to Go Vegetarian - This booklet offers convincing arguments to suggest that cutting out meat helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contributes to water and land conservation. This is a serious science-based booklet for those who want to know more before making up their own minds. You can either order a hard copy or download it here.
Why It's Green to Go Vegetarian - summary sheets
Animal Welfare - summary sheets
E-mail service for students and teachers - Your students are more than welcome to “contact an expert” via email. Questionnaires are also welcome. E-mail your questions to info@vegsoc.org
Vegucation! : teachers newsletter - Why not sign up for our twice yearly school newsletter? Vegucation will keep you up to date on any free resources and news: click here to sign up for the e-newsletter or view an example here
Healthy Eating posters
The Vegetarian Society currently has two posters, both of which illustrate information on healthy eating. The first is The Balance of Good health, the second is a Food Comparisons Poster (pictured left). Both can be used as a teaching aid or just to brighten up your classroom/youth group wall. You can order both through our online order form or download a pdf below:
Balance
of Good Health
Food Comparisons
Silent but Deadly poster
This poster highlights the fact that farmed animals produce more greenhouse gas emissions (18%) than the world’s entire transport system (13.5%)
Quick Lesson Ideas for
Secondary and Primary
Vegetarianism is a subject that can be explored in any subject
area! The Vegetarian Society’s Quick Lesson Ideas,
with accompanying Quick Vegetarian Facts, offer teachers
a variety
of ideas and background information for studying vegetarianism
across the curriculum. Each idea is quick to prepare and can be expanded
and
built upon to suit the needs of individual classes.
Quick Vegetarian Facts
Fact sheet 1Fact sheet 2
Fact sheet 3
Primary Quick Lesson Ideas
Lessons
'What is
a vegetarian?' worksheet
School Speaker Service
The Vegetarian Society offers a free school speaker service. Click here to learn more.