Farming

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Invaders and Settlers: Anglo-Saxons Settlements

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Objectives

History

Understand how people’s lives have shaped Britain.
Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, and cause and consequence.
Gain historical perspective by understanding the connections between local and national history, and between short- and long-term timescales.
Understand how Britain has been influenced by the wider world.

Science

Know that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and they cannot make their own food - they get nutrition from what they eat.
Construct & interpret a variety of food chains.

Lesson Planning

Investigate the food and drink of the Anglo-Saxons, design a week’s menu and cook some of their recipes.

Teaching Outcomes:

To understand why many Anglo-Saxon settlers came to Britain and to describe their farming methods.
Contrast the diet of Anglo-Saxon settlers with what we eat today and design a meal for an Anglo-Saxon family.

Children will:

Describe the food and drink that the Anglo-Saxons grew, raised, hunted and prepared.
Explain some of the difficulties Anglo-Saxon farmers experienced.
Discuss how healthy the diet of Anglo-Saxons was.

Planning

Provided Resources

Farming year simulation
Chance cards
Claim form
Anglo-Saxon names
Anglo-Saxon recipe

Unit Resources

You Will Need

You do not need any particular resources for this session.

Weblinks

Anglo-Saxon farming from earlybritishkingdoms.com
The Hurbuck Hoard from artsandculture.google.com
Life in Anglo-Saxon England from localhistories.org
The Historical Association farming simulation from history.org.uk