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 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 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 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 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 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
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
KS 2 Our lifestyle and Fitness.
This bundle includes PE- circuit fitness a six week block of circuit training that includes an over view for all warm ups, main exercises and cool downs which can be extended to a 12 week block. Warm ups, main exercises and cool downs all include photos and teaching points; A PSHE lesson that explains how to take pulse rates, body measurements and recording data in a Personal Fitness Journey log.
Three numeracy lessons that cross over from the PSHE lesson, children will solve problems involving calculations and conversion of different units of measure linked to our own body measurements. Calculating and converting units of measure and identify and find the pulses in our bodies during and after exercise. Finally children will analyse and interpret the data collected of the resting pulse, active pulse and recovery pulses and create bar charts to display results.
Science - L2 why we should eat a balanced diet. This lesson is suitable for upper kS2 and gives 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.
Science - L3 Diet and lifestyle on the human body. 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.
Explaining what nutrients are, which foods have different nutrients in and why they are important; answering questions on: what is a healthy lifestyle? Why is it so important to eat healthily and keep fit? What foods we consider as healthy and unhealthy?
Science – L5 Circulatory system. This lesson is all about the circulatory system and 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.
Maths -4 days of lessons looking at Nutritional percentages and values in food.
Maths 4 days and a further four days of lessons looking into researching and understanding the nutritional value of foods and drinks focussing on sugar content; as well as identifying foods and drinks with high sugar levels.
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.
This will give pupils ideas to plan, write and edit their own balanced arguments. These lessons are part of a bundle offer to be purchased together and would save you time and offer a fun, practical mini unit of work for your class.
This lesson is designed for upper KS2.
Giving pupils a chance to learn about which foods can be frozen; also to understand the importance of blanching vegetables before being frozen.
This practical lesson involves recording and making systematic observations on the state of frozen foods that are defrosting.
Having a selection of raw prepared fruit and vegetables with high water content, pupils will have a tasting session and answer questions if all fruit and vegetables can be frozen; which foods can be blanched. This science lesson would have to be taught in the morning as observations will need to be made throughout the day. Pupils will write their conclusions and evaluations on which foods and be frozen.
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 for upper KS2
There are many pioneers in modern medicine; this lesson gives pupils opportunities to think about what they already know about infectious disease and illnesses, as well as researching famous scientists whom have made an impact on our health when fighting disease and illness, their invention, cure and treatment .
Pupils can use the web links for their research and the Red Cross link for possible activities and further research.
Included in this lesson, there is a PPP, website links, templates and the lesson plan
This lesson is suitable for upper KS2
Giving opportunities to understand and make connections about how farmers and farming life has developed over time and finding out what you know about Early Man.
Questions to think about and ask the class:
Q. How have early civilizations changed socially over time?
Q. What cultural changes have occurred over this time frame?
After watching a selection of clips about early civilizations pupils can think about how farming has changed over the centuries producing a time line of key events. Are farmers better or worse off today than in the past?
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 unit of work is suitable for upper KS2.
The learning in these five lessons gives pupils opportunities to identify the features of note taking on a health topic for a news article and write own newspaper reports; understand the concepts of journalism and how to take notes as reporters by planning a news article using key language and structure layout for own news paper report.
This unit of work follows on from ‘What’s in the News’
Lesson one begins with scanning and skim reading an article to take notes which leads on to skills activities in subordinate clause at the beginning at the end of sentences, embedded clauses., Semi-colon separating two main clause, simple sentences and rhetorical question in a news article. By the end of the week pupils will use their scan and skim reading skills to take their own notes before composing a newspaper article on food, nutrition or health successfully using all criteria from the class checklist and use editing skills to produce a final news article.
This unit of work can be purchased as 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 unit of work is suitable for upper KS2.
The learning in these five lessons gives pupils opportunities to watch different adverts and explain why they are appealing and to identify the target audience. By the end of the second lesson pupils will take notes and develop ideas why music is used in advertising campaigns; as well as identify how adverts use gender for impact. This is seen in one particular fast food advert about a young boy who can’t do what a young boy wants to do to have fun. As the week proceeds pupils will write an advert using appropriate advertising techniques and descriptive language for a full effect, as well as starting to compose a musical jingle to accompany the advert. Following this pupils will edit and improve the advertising campaign ready to record it for a radio broadcast.
The weeks lessons combines individual learning, as well as working as a team to compose, edit and improve the advert ready to broadcast.
Included in this unit of work are three music lessons that gives pupils opportunities to compose their own jingle to an advert.
