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.
This six week Design Tech unit of work is for upper KS2
This block is all about Menus, tasting and cooking.
This block of work is a practical, fun and involves group work activities over the six week block. With the overall objective to create a menu, buy the ingredients and then prepare the food for their chosen menu. Inviting family members into school to share work produced over the past 12 weeks.
There are a number of numeracy lessons that are linked to the DT unit of work which help them prepare for the family invite and presentation these include: Using the 12 & 24 hour clock, timings and preparation. The nutritional value of foods by creating a set of top trump cards, understanding direct and indirect ratio proportion; as well as budgeting, working out cost of ingredients, quantities of ingredients needed in preparing foods.
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.
KS2 PSHE History focus -What does Fair trade mean to you?
This lesson is suitable for upper KS2
This lesson is where pupils will: learn and understand the definition of Fair trade; Explain why Farmers rely on Fair trade for their produce; Discuss issues that are current in the news; discuss how EU sugar reform is endangering the livelihoods of small farmers and develop personal opinions and views. This is a discussion lesson that gives pupils opportunities in making suggestions on ways to improve the schools views and practices on Fair Trade.
This lesson can be a stand alone lesson and is linked with the History lesson-Atlantic Trade Routes and 3 lessons of numeracy - Sailing & circumnavigating the high seas which can be purchased as a bundle.
Two fun and interesting activities that are equally ideal lessons to be taught throughout the year or around Fair trade Fortnight, usually around 24th February - 8th March.
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 suitable for upper kS2
Giving opportunities to research the principles of what a balanced diet is. Understand the reasons why we should eat a balanced diet, by explaining what a balanced diet consists off.
By the end of the lesson pupils will be able to give an explanation of a well balanced and healthy diet through the ‘eat well’ plate; successfully categorise the different types of food that make up our diet. Explain what the proportions are; and how we should eat them, recall the differences of good and bad fats and identify processed sugars and natural sugars in food sources.
With a focus on teaching Healthy food and exercise involves a balanced diet and keeping fit.
Refer the teaching notes and websites. Independent/groups activities include placing foods correctly on the eatwell plate using the word vocabulary document. (Use hoops for the different food groups) Independently design a day’s menu that has the entire food groups in.
This unit of work is suitable for upper KS2.
The learning in these five lessons offers pupils to research and read different newspapers and distinguish between factual information and opinions based on factual information; Read and explore a range of journalistic writing and identify how a newspaper reports on specific events. Leading on to comparing and contrasting journalistic articles using the 5w’s and how and evaluating the effectiveness and impact different journalistic articles have on its target audience.
Lesson one starts with distinguishing between facts and opinions in the newspapers and answering questions with the importance of answering questions with the 5 W’s. The weeks focus is all about when the sugar tax was first introduced and how the sugar tax has impacted on reducing the obesity of the nation.
These newspaper articles will be evaluated and questions will be answered –
Q. what type of language is used? Q. What’s it purpose/impact on audience?
Q. is formal or informal language used? Q. Is all the information needed?
Q. Is anything missing? Q. Who is the intended audience?
By the end of the week pupils should be able to identify the key language features, the structure and layouts features and explain what the differences are between fact and opinion. A following week’s planning leads into writing own newspaper reports. ‘Hot of the press’ can be purchased separately or purchased in a bundle.
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)
This lesson is designed for upper KS2
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 unit of work is suitable for upper KS2.
The learning in these four lessons gives pupils opportunities to learn about different ways of advertising, who are the target audience when adverts are produced, thinking about the techniques which are used when adverts are made with the outcome of planning and producing own posters for a healthy eating or fitness campaign.
Lesson one begins with discussing persuasive techniques in advertising answering questions on:
Q. Where do you encounter advertising? (They will likely mention television, billboards, radio, Websites, school hallways, and so on.)
Q. Which specific advertisements "stick in your head?” the class task leads into watching a selection of adverts discussing the three different ways of advertising. Lesson two gives pupils opportunities to research on the web different poster/fliers – web search images posters advertising events/ cafes and restaurants. By the end of the week, pupils will use their learning from previous lessons to create a design their own posters that has the biggest impact that is eye catching. The final lesson gives opportunities to edit and improve their posters.
Learning overview to understand the meanings of the songs Harriet and fellow slaves sang.
Construct in the first person a diary entry, which includes a chant that portrays a meaning and a code organising ideas chronologically.
This week of lessons focusses on exploring the chants and songs the slaves sung from the book ’ The story of Harriet Tubman - Freedom Train’ by Dorothy Sterling.
Using the knowledge of the story to write a diary entry of a slave working in the fields or in the household.
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.
KS2 Science Muscular System
This lesson gives opportunities for children to learn all about the muscular system in humans,that there are three types of muscles in the body and their function, how the muscles move in performing different actions and the terms/ vocabulary used in describing these actions with a series of fun activities which will reinforce learning.
KS2/KS3 Science Skeletal System
This lesson is an informative lesson with many facts about the skeletal system and its role in supporting the major organs in the body. Giving opportunities for pupils to ask specific and indepth questions using stem sentences in their answering.
The learning objectives for this lesson is to ask own questions about the scientific phenomena of the skeletal system and to name and describe the functions of the skeletal system.
kS2 Science Water Transportation part 1
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.
kS2 Science Water Transportation part 2
This science lesson has been written to follow on from ‘Water Transportation part one’ that expands the children’s knowledge in how water is used within the body and the function of the muscles when there isn’t enough water in the body.
This lesson has been written primarily for KS 3, however can be taught to upper ks 2 to advanced pupils who have a in depth knowledge of the human body.
KS2 Digestive System Part 1
Pupils will learn and successfully describe the process of the digestive system, identifying and naming the parts of the digestive system through interactive games and using an outline of the body draw and annotate what they know happens to food when they’ve eaten it.
From shared learning and class activities of the lesson pupils should be able to label and identify parts of the digestive system correctly.
Also thinking about the questions asked in the power point and how to answer key questions using the stem sentence approach; A summary of children’s learning is to write a clear explanation of the function of each part of the digestive system and how the digestive system works.
KS2 Digestive System Part 2
This lesson about the digestive system follows on from ‘How the digestive system works’
Giving opportunities for pupils to explore questions that help to give an understanding of the functions of the digestive system and to use stem sentences to answer in detail how the digestive system works.
Reinforce learning parts of the digestive system and placing them correctly in the body is one activity.
It has been written aimed for upper ks2 answering questions. asking for pupils to give explanations using stem sentences.
The power point presentation is a lesson plan and teaching resource for the lesson.
An interesting and interactive based unit of work planned for upper key stage two.
This unit of work is a six week block that gives pupils opportunities to research about the different religions and the food they are allowed to eat.
The following objectives are laid out below week by week.
W 1 To Research foods that are forbidden and permitted from different religions from around the world.
W 2 Understand through research different cultures have different celebrations and dietary requirements
W 3 Research a religion and continue researching about its culture and celebrations
W 4 To study in further detail a religion continuing research about its culture and celebrations.
W 5 To design a menu for the religion already research selecting food that can be eaten for that religion.
Identify the foods that are excluded from their diet from previous research.
W 6 To explain what the religious beliefs are.
To give an oral account of the religion researched, the festivals, celebrations and the menus designed.
This lesson has been created for upper KS2
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.
Updated Lesson plan with Brand new resources!
This science lesson has been planned for lower KS2 but can be used for the teaching in upper KS2 as well.
Giving opportunities for children to learn all about the muscular system in humans,that there are three types of muscles in the body and their function, how the muscles move in performing different actions and the terms/ vocabulary used in describing these actions with a series of fun activities which will reinforce learning.
The lesson that follows The Muscular System is the skeletal system. You can find this lesson in my shop.
These three lessons are for upper KS2
Involving solving problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure.
Pupils will apply skills in converting between miles and kilometres.
As well as working out the time it takes on the high seas and distance in miles to reach a location in the UK or around the world. Applying knowledge is using the time, distance speed equation to all modes of transport – air, sail boat/sea & road. Then choosing a fair trade product and the distance, speed & time it would take to reach a supermarket
In lesson two and three, pupils will choose a famous explorer and explore the routes they sailed and produce they brought back to Europe and the UK. There are a number of weblinks that pupils can use to research Explorers and the routes they traveled.
These lessons are linked to History - Atlantic Trade Routes and PSHE- What does fair trade mean to you?
This lesson is a fun lesson that can involve teachers and support staff in the lesson. It gives pupils opportunities to find out about their level of fitness and their lifestyle they lead.
Also offering opportunities to link this lesson to a maths lesson on data collection, as well as giving pupils their own personal fitness record. The lesson comes with three PE circuit fitness lessons to carry out the data collection.
I have taught several classes this lesson when supply teaching, the children loved the fun involved in the circuit lesson and finding their pulses and recording their data.
Additional Circuit fitness PE lessons can be purchased separately.
This lesson has been written for upper KS2.
Food distribution can be affected by unfair food distribution, war, environmental disaster and climate conditions affect the lives of millions around the world. ‘Does war cause hunger?’
As Mercy Corp state ‘being hungry means more than just missing a meal. It’s a debilitating crisis that has more than 820 million people in its grip. Hunger is a perilous cycle that passes from one generation to the next: Families who struggle with chronic hunger and malnutrition consistently go without the nutrients their minds and bodies need, which then prevents them from being able to work, go to school, or improve their lives.’
Pupils will look into and discuss what things children in conflicted areas need each day for their survival. As well as locating war and conflicts around the world and how environmental disasters affect agriculture and crop production, answering the question does climate change have an impact
This lesson is for designed for upper KS2
Giving pupils a chance to understand how food freezes to preserve it from decay.
Also understand why certain food products can be cooked from frozen and others have to defrost. With opportunities to Investigate and taste test which foods taste better fresh or frozen?
As the lesson is a practical session the practical preparation would need to be taught first, and the results gathered the following day, as freezing the food products the day before, ahead of cooking and tasting the frozen foods as well as the same freshly prepared food on that day. The attached numeracy lesson is linked as it reinforces why it is important to follow recipe instructions and methods before cooking, as well as measuring out ingredients correctly.
A fun and stimulating lesson.
This lesson is designed upper KS2
Giving opportunities for pupils to explain why it is important to follow rules when handling raw meat.
To also outline and conclude why bacteria can be harmful when food is involved. After the activity pupils should successfully be able to prepare raw meat for cooking.
The science lesson gives pupils a chance to explore how easy it is to transfer raw meat on hands over surfaces, and why it is important to wash hands immediately after handling raw meat, as the bacteria on the hands is harmful.
Pupils will learn why it is important to follow rules when handling raw meat. By the end of the lesson from the watching clips on ‘You Tube’ and reading Jamie Oliver’s cooking skills on safety and avoiding cross contamination, pupils will be able to identify and make corrections to a set of instructions on handling raw meat or write own instructions.
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.
