Bronze Age beans

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Stone Age to Iron Age Britain Food

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Objectives

History

Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British history establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study.
Address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.

Design and Technology

Understand and apply the principles of a healthy and varied diet.
Prepare and cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes using a range of cooking techniques.
Understand seasonality, and know where and how a variety of ingredients are grown, reared, caught and processed.

Lesson Planning

Learn about the Bronze Age and how many more crops were introduced at this time. Make oatcakes and a bean stew.

Teaching Outcomes:

To find out about new crops introduced in the Bronze Age.
To make sweet beancakes.

Children will:

Identify the name of Bronze Age crops.
Make beancakes.
Find out the health benefits of eating beans and peas.

Planning

Provided Resources

Images of new and existing crops
New crop identification game
Research sheet on beans and peas
Recipe for beancakes
Picture of bowl with nettle stew from Must Farm

You Will Need

Several tins of broad beans
Food processor
Butter
Flour
Honey.

Weblinks

Evidence for Bronze Age food and some recipes from ancientcraft.co.uk