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Lesson Five – Field to Plate

This geography teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to 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.
The class can produce a flow chart showing the sequence of steps needed in food production when harvesting different types of food to be sold in shops to customers.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to 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
Activities in this teaching pack include a template to identify and record the journey of a crop from a farm to the shops to a home (enlarge to A3) and a set of cards to identify and record the journey of a crop as part of the food production chain.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record the journey of a carrot from the farm to the shop to the home.
This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get 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. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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