I am a primary school teacher working for a home school and tutor online with a passion for children to be engaged in learning. The resources in my shop include lesson plans, PowerPoint Presentations, and hands-on activities with many cross-curricular links.
I am a primary school teacher working for a home school and tutor online with a passion for children to be engaged in learning. The resources in my shop include lesson plans, PowerPoint Presentations, and hands-on activities with many cross-curricular links.
A grow your own topic - A topic has been written for parents who home school and teachers who would like a fun topic that offers opportunities for children and pupils to choose what fruit and vegetables they would like to grow in their home garden or school garden. Through research choose the vegetables they would like to eat later in the year.
Parents and teachers can use the websites listed to help in their ’ grow your own ’ topic and through this, offers many opportunities to spend time outdoors preparing an area of the garden for growing crops. My two and half year old enjoyed placing the pea seeds in the seed trays indoors ready in a few weeks to plant the seedlings outdoors. All children will enjoy being involved in the sewing of the seeds, to eventually harvesting the crops to enjoy and eat.
Additional activities for older children allows further research to be carried out online: To transfer the data collected onto maps
produce posters on what is needed to be successful at growing vegetables or fruits, thinking about what tools are needed and the time of year the seeds will be planted.
A storyboard/ time board activity to draw the process of preparing the veg patch, planting the seeds indoors, watering, planting out the seedlings outside to how long it takes the vegetables to grow. (Those children who love drawing can draw further detailed drawings of the vegetables)
Enjoy and have fun spending time outdoors in this topic.
L 1 Geography - Seasons - Understand and gain knowledge on impact of seasonality on food production around the world.
By the end of the lesson children would be able to: summarise and give an explanation why foods are grown in seasons.
Identify the climates and locations where food is grown, reared, caught and produced.
To locate where food is exported in the world.
L 1 & L 2 Farm to Fork lessons Include: lesson plans, PPP , resources and weblinks including an opportunity for Children to interview a local farmer as well as watch the BBC programme – Jimmy’s Farm Heroes 2008 (1 hour in length), making notes about what is affecting today’s farmers the most.
Children in Lesson 1 will compose questions to ask a farmer and interpret his/her answers
In Lesson 2 children will understand the link between land use and economic activity.
By the end of lesson 1 children will be able to ask open ended questions.
Interpret information from different sources and evaluate, from interviewing, that there are physical and human characteristics that affect farming.
By the end of lesson 2 children will successfully identify land use; Identify the effect of land use on economic activity. As well as identify the distribution of food from its origin.
Included is a photo of some notes the class teacher took when interviewing a local Cornish Farmer.
L 3 Farm to Fork This Geography lesson follows on from \farm to Fork L1 & L2 and gives opportunities for researching different types of farming, expressing views and opinions on farming and how food ends up on our plates. Answering questions: do you know where our food comes from? As a nation should we be supporting our local farmers?
There are links to a number of numeracy lessons on how far food travels from farms to end up on the supermarket shelves. Websites provide information on locations of locally sourced food products, and who these farmers sell their produce to. It is not just dairy, rearing animals, crop growing; fishermen are also farmers, catching fish to sell at markets and restaurants.
This lesson provides opportunities for discussion on farming life and the produce that is sold to supermarkets and other sources for profit.
L 4 Geography/History – Changes in our landscapes
Topic day- Methods of farming and changing land use.
This lesson entails using search technologies effectively, appreciate how results are selected and ranked and be discerning in evaluating digital content.
To use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly.
Q. How has methods of farming and land use changed over time?
To gain an understanding of how land use and life has changed over time and recognise key topographical features using and reading OS maps identifying land use symbols and scales as well as locations and distances on all scales of maps, including national and world maps.
This lesson is for upper KS2 and is an ideal lesson for a topic day where pupils would be looking into farming and land use seeing how much has changed over time.
Pupils would use local maps of a county, regional and nationally from a local library - to see how land use has changed over a period of time in the history aspect of this lesson.
With a focus on the different farming ways –studying beef, sheep, dairy, arable, mixed, pastoral and renewable energy using Google Earth as a source of information.
The aim of the geography lesson is for pupils to consider the changes that can happen in an area and about the impact that these changes can have on both the environment and the people who live there.
L 5 Opportunities to research where farms are locally; also finding out what produce is farmed and do these farms supply supermarkets?
Pupils can also use the links provided to help them research crop and animal production from the different farms in the UK-
Using the map pupils can work out the scale – distances in miles/km, then work out the time it would take to transport/deliver the produce to its destination, including counties/countries travelled through.
The lesson gives pupils opportunities to research using the world wide web and ways of how they will present their findings from their research.
L 6 This lesson has a scientific aspect, giving pupils a chance to understand and research what foods are consumed in the world and how they are consumed.
What foods are produced for the fast food industry and how does overconsumption of certain foods increase obesity in the world?
Pupils will have opportunities to research areas of the world where there is an obesity crisis; also by watching a bbc clip/you tube clip –‘The men who made us fat’. Will allow pupils to think about the foods we eat, seeing fast food restaurants everywhere, and advertisements.
By researching the crops that are grown and farmed in the world have a huge impact on world population and world obesity.
L 8 Food distribution is a current issue as is food production; this lesson is about both these issues. Children will consider both and investigate what foods are grown, produced and distributed in the UK; the impact farmers are facing with costs and profits when supplying their produce to supermarkets. Children will have opportunities in mapping food production and distribution in the Great Britain and around the world, and write a report on why there is so much food waste from vegetables grown as they don’t match the supermarkets criteria in size and shape.
L 10 This lesson will give pupils an understanding of the concept of varying food prices across the supermarkets. As well as opportunities for research and give an explanation of varying food prices across the UK and world.
When we do our food shopping, do you look at the prices between supermarkets on certain produce?
Today’s lesson involves thinking about
Q. Why does the cost of fruit and vegetables vary so much between the supermarkets?
Many food produce, especially fruit and vegetables are imported from around the world.
Q. How does this impact and influence the shopper on food prices?
As a nation are we set in our ways in only buying from one supermarket, or only buying brand name produce?
A research lesson where children will evaluate their findings, putting the data collected into a graph and writing an explanation of what has been found out.
This lesson has been written for upper KS 2.
The crux of the lesson is to find out as a class how water and nutrients are transported in the body to where they are needed.
Also to gain an understanding of how blood has a function on the body and the role within the body; as well as understanding what the body’s circulatory system is responsible for and how it transports materials throughout the entire body. Discussions can also be generated on possible illnesses that are caused if the body doesn’t function adequately.
Opportunities to invite st. Johns ambulance to offer talks to pupils can be arranged. (see website in web site links) Other First aid lesson plans can be found on this site.
This lesson offers a good understanding on why water is vital to us humans, and how nutrients are transported around the body from the water we drink.
Look out for the advanced water transportation lesson in the coming week.
This lesson would be ideal to be taught over several days.
files included:
ppp
lesson plan
teacher background notes
website list
teaching resources
Feed back and reviews would be appreciated
This lesson has been written for upper KS2.
Geography/History – Changes in our landscapes
Topic day- Methods of farming and changing land use.
Q. How has methods of farming and land use changed over time?
To gain an understanding of how land use and life has changed over time and recognise key topographical features using and reading OS maps identifying land use symbols and scales as well as locations and distances on all scales of maps, including national and world maps.
This lesson is for upper KS2 and is an ideal lesson for a topic day where pupils would be looking into farming and land use seeing how much has changed over time.
Pupils would use local maps of a county, regional and nationally from a local library - to see how land use has changed over a period of time in the history aspect of this lesson.
With a focus on the different farming ways –studying beef, sheep, dairy, arable, mixed, pastoral and renewable energy using Google Earth as a source of information.
The aim of the geography lesson is for pupils to consider the changes that can happen in an area and about the impact that these changes can have on both the environment and the people who live there.
The curriculum links to Literacy W3 –W4 How farming has changed over time and why Fair trade products are so important, History- Atlantic trade routes /PSHE Fair Trade and Numeracy W5 – Time, distance and speed investigating how far food is exported to.
These can be bought also as a bundle.
I would appreciate any reviews and comments and if improvements can be made.
This unit of work is a great talk4writing non chronological report text to learning all about the Romans.
Week one KS2 yr3-yr 5 as taught in a mixed year group class. The initial introductory text is based on the Celts in preparation for writing a non chronological write about the Romans.
Week one is to learn all about the Celtic way of life text through the story map and answer questions about the text.
The three following weeks can be purchased separately or as a block unit.
Included in the week one NCR
The story map is attached in this week one package,
Reading comprehension
Celtic report highlighting the grammar features
Week two is to change the Celtic Britain report text to writing about the Roman Army and their way of life.
Information used about the Roman army is sourced
Grammar exercises are also sourced
Week three is to plan and prepare own independent writing about as aspect of Roman life.
Box up plan
Week four is to complete independent writing.
Box up plan revised
grammar
key ingredients for writing an effective report
These three lessons are suitable for upper KS2.
Included in these three lessons are lesson plans, and two PPP , resources and weblinks including an opportunity for Children to interview a local farmer as well as watch the BBC programme – Jimmy’s Farm Heroes 2008 (1 hour in length), making notes about what is affecting today’s farmers the most.
Children in Lesson 1 will compose questions to ask a farmer and interpret his/her answers
In Lesson 2 children will understand the link between land use and economic activity.(Summary of Farmers interview is Lesson 2) This time allows children to summarize questions asked to a local farmer or from the video watched in part 2 of lesson one.
By the end of lesson 1 children will be able to ask open ended questions.
Interpret information from different sources and evaluate, from interviewing, that there are physical and human characteristics that affect farming.
By the end of lesson 2 children will successfully identify land use; Identify the effect of land use on economic activity. As well as identify the distribution of food from its origin.
Included is a photo of some notes the class teacher took when interviewing a local Cornish Farmer.
Lesson three - Farm to Fork
This lesson follows on from Farming in the UK interviewing local farmers; giving opportunities for researching different types of farming, expressing views and opinions on farming and how food ends up on our plates. Answering questions: do you know where our food comes from? As a nation should we be supporting our local farmers?
There are links to a number of numeracy lessons on how far food travels from farms to end up on the supermarket shelves. Websites provide information on locations of locally sourced food products, and who these farmers sell their produce to. It is not just dairy, rearing animals, crop growing; fishermen are also farmers, catching fish to sell at markets and restaurants.
This lesson provides opportunities for discussion on farming life and the produce that is sold to supermarkets and other sources for profit.
KS2 Yr5-Yr6 English – Why we should eat a balanced diet – A Balanced Argument
This block of lesson gives pupils an opportunity to revise what a balanced argument is, revising vocabulary and key features of writing a balanced argument. There is a prequel lesson where pupils can have a class/ group debate on different questions about Junk food.
Following this lesson there are five lessons that will give pupils ideas to plan, write and edit their own balanced arguments on Why we should eat a balanced dirt. Ideas for writing their own arguments could come from the prequal lesson questions pupils debated about as well.
This unit of work is suitable for upper KS2.
The learning in these five lessons gives pupils opportunities to study a range of complaint letters about eating out in restaurants, thinking about why people write letters of complaints focussing on the tone and language that is used.
Pupils will look at a range of complaint letters talking through the learning from the letters of complaint and thoughts of the ideas complied in order to continue planning and drafting out a compliant letter about a disappointed meal out/ experience that didn’t end well/ or the food was uncooked/over cooked. By the end of the week pupils will write their own letters of complaints and the possible response from the complaint letter.
KS2 Science Circulatory system
This lesson is suitable for upper KS2.
Practical activities, interactive games and quizzes are included. Pupils will be able to identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system within the body; and explain the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood.
Learning all about the circulatory system provides opportunities to learn and label the heart and the role of each part of the heart; the function of blood vessels and the role of the oxygenated and deoxygenated blood in the body. Invitations for a qualified first aider to visit would allow pupils to learn about CPR, the recovery position and general first aid.
Included files :
ppp
lesson plan
website list
teacher background notes
This lesson is history - RE oriented for KS 3(Grade 6-8) but could be taught as a year 6 lesson.
Pupils will learn all about how the Quakers had a different religious view to other Christian faiths.
As well as Identifying how the Quakers helped the American slaves to their
freedom?
Lesson objectives have been differentiated : All – By studying, when did the Quakers form and what was their religious beliefs?
Most - To identify the work the Quakers did in America to help free the African-American slaves.
Some – To study the Quakers in Britain, and how they supported the British workers in the 19th century.
Biography Talk4writing yr 6 Harriet Tubman and the Underground railway
The following 4 weeks of English has been carefully thought-out and planned for primarily yr 6, but can be taught to yr 5 as well.
The first week looks at the features of a biography, and recognising the key features and with this children will learn about a famous abolitionist Harriet Tubman and her biography through a text and a BBC clip. Interesting activities have been included based around grammar and a reading comprehension to retrieve information about the text. Included in week one are 5 lessons of PPP, Also included is an overview of Harriet Tubman’s life for key features - NOT A STORY MAP, but could be used to learn all about Harriet’s life.
The second week offers opportunities for children to identify grammatical features in a biography, using the box up plan to help develop ideas, before composing ideas orally and in writing. The English lessons links to History, where children will research another abolitionist/civil right campaigner or a Quaker during the 19th Century. This research will give children a deeper understanding on what life as a slave working on a plantation was like in the United States of America or as a worker in Great Briton in the work houses in Victorian Briton. During this week, children will use the box up grid to develop ideas before starting to prepare a shared piece of writing on either famous person.
The third week focuses on continuing a shared write putting together a complete biography aiming to write five paragraphs. Other fun activities include role playing a Historian of American History/slavery radio phone in.
In week four children will choose and write independently a biography about another historical person from the Victorian era who have made a difference to our lives today. This four week block will link to a cross curricular topics of: The Victorians or 19th Century American history.
Take the time to read the biography of Harriet Tubman by Dorothy Sterling before you teach the 4 week block or read it as a class book. I enjoyed reading Harriet’s biography.
A topic has been written for parents who home school and teachers who would like a fun topic that offers opportunities for children and pupils to choose what fruit and vegetables they would like to grow in their home garden or school garden. Through research choose the vegetables they would like to eat later in the year.
Parents and teachers can use the websites listed to help in their ’ grow your own ’ topic and through this, offers many opportunities to spend time outdoors preparing an area of the garden for growing crops. My two and half year old enjoyed placing the pea seeds in the seed trays indoors ready in a few weeks to plant the seedlings outdoors. All children will enjoy being involved in the sewing of the seeds, to eventually harvesting the crops to enjoy and eat.
Additional activities for older children allows further research to be carried out online: To transfer the data collected onto maps
produce posters on what is needed to be successful at growing vegetables or fruits, thinking about what tools are needed and the time of year the seeds will be planted.
A storyboard/ time board activity to draw the process of preparing the veg patch, planting the seeds indoors, watering, planting out the seedlings outside to how long it takes the vegetables to grow. (Those children who love drawing can draw further detailed drawings of the vegetables)
Enjoy and have fun spending time outdoors in this topic.
This lesson has been written for upper KS2
Food distribution is a current issue as is food production; this lesson is about both these issues. Children will consider both and investigate what foods are grown, produced and distributed in the UK; the impact farmers are facing with costs and profits when supplying their produce to supermarkets. Children will have opportunities in mapping food production and distribution in the Great Britain and around the world, and write a report on why there is so much food waste from vegetables grown and consider why supermarkets don’t take vegetables and fruit because they don’t math the criteria in size and shape.
Updated files November 2022.
This Geography lesson has been written for upper KS2.
Giving pupils opportunities to research where farms are locally; also finding out what produce is farmed and do these farms supply supermarkets?
Pupils can also use the links provided to help them research crop and animal production from the different farms in the UK-
Using the map pupils can work out the scale – distances in miles/km, then work out the time it would take to transport/deliver the produce to its destination, including counties/countries travelled through.
The lesson gives pupils opportunities to research using the world wide web and ways of how they will present their findings from their research.
This unit of work offers a fun work out where you will find a six week programme with warm ups, main exercises and cool downs. Station cards with photos to demonstrate the exercise and teaching points.
If your a supply teacher and need a PE lesson, this would make a great stand alone lesson as all resources are prepared and ready to use.
See Keep fit Circuit Plan weeks one to six for background information.
Any feedback and comments would be greatly appreciated.
This lesson is designed for upper KS 2
The crux of this lesson is thinking about our diet and lifestyle and the impact it has on the human body. Asking the question ‘What is obesity?’ With further investigations and watching clips on fat and how it affects the body; what diseases and health implications are there on the human body when consuming too much bad fat.
This lesson can also be purchased in a bundle with L2 why we should eat a balanced diet? & PE, Numeracy and PSHE Circuit Fitness, as there are links across all these lessons and would make an ideal mini cross curricular unit of work that KS 2 children will enjoy.
This lesson is for upper KS2
The lesson can be linked with the PSHE lesson - What does Fair trade mean to you?
where pupils will learn all about Atlantic Trade Routes and to be able to explain the impact of exploration on the way we live today.
By the end of the lesson pupils would be able to identify explorers who discovered trade routes and food from around the world; successfully explain how our lives today have been influenced from explorers discoveries. Finally able to explain the benefits of why specific food produce are fair trade.
Learning objective - To explain the impact of exploration on the way we live today. By the end of the lesson pupils would have successfully learnt to identify explorers who discovered trade routes and food from around the world.
To explain how our lives today have been influenced from explorers discoveries and the benefits of why specific food produce are fair trade.
This lesson is designed for upper KS2
Giving pupils a chance to understand why it is important to store food correctly. This is an investigative lesson where pupils have to demonstrate how to store foods correctly and examine the differences between use by and best before dates.
There are interactive activities that are directly linked on how to store foods, which foods are best to store in plastic containers, as well as sharing thoughts about hygiene in the kitchen.
By the end of the lesson pupils will have a good understanding and will produce a class wall of knowledge using post-it notes, discussing any misconceptions and sharing new facts the children have learnt from this lesson.
The photos can be used to place correctly on the fridge shelf or food cupboard. (more foods will be added to the zipped file)
KS 2 PE Athletics unit of work includes 7 lesson plans and instructions for the activities. Suitable for all KS2, Ideally for Yr5 - Yr6
Activities include running short sprints, long distances, hurdle jumping, long jumping, throwing, heaving and fling with a final lesson of a Multi Athletics Olympics
Read and create Poetry
This unit of work is for upper KS2.
Lesson one starts with discussing how authors use language in poetry to capture the reader’s attention. Starting with synonyms and recapping what a synonym is. Asking pupils to write down on whiteboards what their interpretation of a synonym is.
Lesson two continues with Identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning of a prose with a task; using personification and making kitchen utensils to life.
As the weeks progresses, pupils will understand how to use personification, similes, synonyms in own writing; thinking how writing styles creates imagery. Pupils would take time reading different prose about food during the week and by the end of the week pupils would spend time refining and evaluating sentences using personification synonyms, metaphors, imagery and similes for impact.
A review from this lesson would be appreciated.
This lesson has been written for upper KS2.
This lesson allows pupils to explore inventions of food and drink through the ages to modern day.
A practical lesson where pupils will be able to blind taste test a range of white, milk and dark chocolate and rate the different chocolate; Opportunities to learn about The Cadbury story and talk through the benefits of cocoa and its impact on our lifestyles.
The task would allow pupils to pick a medicine or vaccine, food or the pasteurization discovery from the past and research the person and produce a fact file. For example Louis Pasteur was a French microbiologist and chemist born on December 27, 1822 and died on September 28, 1895.
