Popular foods over the past 100 years

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Changes within Living Memory Food

Objectives

History

  • Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change.
  • Learn about changes in living memory.
  • Identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods.

Geography

  • Name and locate the world’s seven continents.
  • Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify continents.

Lesson Planning

Children will explore the idea that food and diets have changed over a number of years. They will learn about some of the regions that different foods come from.

Teaching Outcomes
To sort photos of popular meals from great-grandparents’ era to current time; To make a timeline of popular meals from great-grandparents’ era to current time.
To identify where different dishes have originated and match these to a map.

Children will:

  • Sort foods and dishes into eras according to when they were popular.
  • Create a timeline of ‘new’ dishes to the UK.
  • Stick images of popular dishes from around the world onto a map.

Provided Resources

  • Images of meals from different eras
  • Maps of the world
  • Dishes from around the world images

You Will Need

You do not need any particular resources for this session.

Weblinks

There are no weblinks needed for this session.