Y5/6 Lesson 3 (Cycle B): Food choices and the environment

Understanding some environmental issues relating to food and food production.

Learning objective

  • To understand some environmental issues relating to food and food production.

Non-statutory guidance

PSHE

Learning opportunities in Living in the Wider World

‘Pupils learn

L5. Ways of carrying out shared responsibilities for protecting the environment in school and at home; how everyday choices can affect the environment (e.g. reducing, reusing, recycling; food choices)

 

See: Programme of Study for PSHE education (KS1-5).

 

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Classroom resources

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support

Could use Activity: Food waste research to focus their research on food waste as this is a potentially less complex issue; some children may benefit from answering the reduced set of questions.

 

Pupils working at greater depth

Can explore the consequences and impact that some changes, for example reducing food miles, could have on the income of farmers in other countries.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

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