Where does our food come from?

#TheCompleteSeries7lessons

With lesson plans, differentiated worksheets, colourful, detailed slides and a choice of activity with every lesson, this scheme of work has everything you need to teach your children about the origins of the food they eat.

This scheme of work is also part of a Topic Bundle. Perfect if you are teaching 'Food' as a cross-curricular topic.

#Lesson1Breakfast

In this lesson, children will learn about the origins of some breakfast foods, as well as how they are traded and transported around the world. They will think about where common breakfast foods come from, such as milk and orange juice, and consider where in the world it came from and what had to happen to it before it could be served to them at the breakfast table.

#Lesson2Wheat

In this lesson, children will find out about some of the different climate zones around the world., focussing particularly on temperate climate zones. They will look at farms in Kansas, USA to explore how farmers in temperate climates grow and harvest wheat and other crops before distributing them around the world.

#Lesson3Bananas

Your children will learn all about the conditions in tropical climate zones in this lesson, as well as how bananas are grown and shipped to the United Kingdom. They will then go on to learn about fair trade organisations and how they help farmers.

#Lesson4Rice

This lesson focuses on food production in the tropical country of Indonesia. Children will find out about how land is used to grow rice and consider some of the consequences of deforestation to make space for more farmland.