Author: nikkimarsh
Created: Apr 19, 2019| Updated: May 23, 2020
These three lessons are suitable for upper KS2.
Included in these three lessons are 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.
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.
