Fruitcake mining task digs up environmental lessons

Sarah Duggan

By Sarah Duggan
Published December 11, 2017

John Maxwell is midway through a geography lesson and desks are littered with small piles of sultanas, glace cherries and scraps of fruit peel.

Students sporting paper hats stoop over their partially dissected slices of fruitcake, carefully extracting their sugary loot with toothpicks.

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This story appeared in the December 2017 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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