'100 Years of Food' festival

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

  • 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; to understand where food comes from.

Lesson Planning

Children will draw their learning together and invite visitors into the classroom to experience 100 years of food!

Teaching Outcomes
To talk about food, shops and shopping in various eras
To stick images of food on a map to show where they originated from
To prepare a dish or snack from an era over the past 100 years

Children will:

  • Prepare and make a popular dish from a different era.
  • Create a timeline of dishes made using photos of their cooking.
  • Identify the geographical origins of food on a map.
  • Share food and talk about food and shopping over time with festival visitors.

Provided Resources

This session does not need any provided resources.

You Will Need

  • Food: ingredients, recipes and equipment from previous sessions
  • Photos of shops and food from different eras taken from previous sessions
  • ‘Stalls’ for each era