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Food origins and food miles

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

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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.
  • Identify the UK and its countries, as well as other countries and continents.

Maths

  • Read, write and compare numbers to 100 in numerals.
  • Identify, represent and estimate numbers.
  • Compare and order lengths (distances).

Lesson Planning

Children will further investigate the global sources of food and the changes in the UK food map. They will investigate and calculate food miles for some popular and common items.

Teaching Outcomes
To Identify food from different eras and find out where some of it originated.
To match food with its place of origin, using a map.
To estimate distances and order numbers up to 100.

Children will:

  • Compare shopping baskets from different eras.
  • Find out where some food from different eras originated from.
  • Stick images of food on a world map to show their place of origin.
  • Estimate distance in large numbers.
  • Read numbers to 100.

You Will Need

  • Packets (with labels) of fruit and vegetables from all over the world
  • Differentiated fruit and vegetables labels
  • World map outlines

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