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Food during WW2: recipes and rationing

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

  • Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify the UK and its countries.

Design and Technology

  • Use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes.
  • Understand where food comes from.

Lesson Planning

Children will investigate the concept of rationing and the reasons behind it. They will explore some common recipes used during times of rationing.

Teaching Outcomes
To measure out and look at the amount of rationed food a family of four would have had during WW2.
To stick food images on a map according to their place of origin in the UK.
To bake a WW2 dish using rationed ingredients.

Children will:

  • Look at and measure out a family’s food for a week based on rationing quotas.
  • Stick images of rationed foods on a map showing their place of origin.
  • Prepare and bake a WW2 dish using rationed foods.

Provided Resources

  • Images of what an adult’s weekly rationed food would look like
  • Rations list for an adult
  • Images of rationed foods with UK regional labels
  • Blank map of UK
  • Map of UK with countries written on

You Will Need

  • Real foods that were rationed
  • Ingredients for baking
  • Equipment for baking (no plastic)

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