Farming
This geography scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to identify, describe and compare the location and function of farms in relation to other places and activities including food production using crops and animals. The class can describe how to move between different places on a farm using the four points of the compass.
Identify, describe and compare the location and function of farms in relation to other places and activities including food production using crops and animals
Lesson One : Farm Map
Devise and present a map to name and record some of the different animals and buildings that can be found on a farm in the countryside
Lesson Two : Farm Diary
Identify and compare some of the different jobs that are performed daily by a farmer when working on a farm to grow crops and care for the animals
Lesson Three : City or Farm
Investigate and record some of the similarities and differences between the physical and political features found in a city or farm location
Lesson Four : Farm Crops
Identify, describe and compare some of the different types of crops and foods that are grown on a farm as part of the food chain
Lesson Five : Field to Plate
Explore and record the journey of a carrot from where it is harvested on a farm to the be sold in a shop and taken home by a family
Lesson Six : Farm Routes
Practise using the four points of the compass to describe some of the different routes and locations that could be made around a farm
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Number Doubles
Model and record how to double different numbers to twenty using concrete equipment and pictorial diagrams to support calculations
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Zoo Animal Doubles
Practise doubling different numbers of animals that might be seen at a zoo recorded in words and digits to ten using diagrams and number lines to model each product
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Doubles Facts
Identify, match and record the doubles of different numbers to ten using concrete equipment and repeated addition to support each multiplication number calculation
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Tower Doubles
Practise counting and doubling different numbers of cubes that have been used to make a range of towers to five, ten and fifteen