LESSON PLAN
Objectives
- To understand the arable farming year
- To appreciate the distribution of arable wheat farming in the UK
- To understand and recall the structure of wheat seeds and the main steps
in processing grain into bread
- To develop presentation skills (written, oral and mathematical)
- To practise extracting information from data.
Curriculum relevance
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Duration
Single lesson, 50 minutes to 1 hour.
Resources
Starter activity
Use IWB ‘Growing our grain’. Allow time for questions, answers and
discussion.
Main activity
Using IP ‘Farming the wheat’, work through the information and the different
activities involved in the wheat farming year. Ask students to draw a timeline
of a wheat farmer's year in an exercise book.
Organise the class into two groups: ask one group to use AS ‘Wheat in the
UK’, and the other to use AS 'The growing year'. A map of the UK will be useful
to support students working on AS 'Wheat in the UK'. Students should look at the
data provided and answer the questions in an exercise book. Students could
report back to the class at this stage, or during the plenary.
Now organise the class into four groups. Using IP 'Looking at wheat seeds',
ask each group to study and prepare an illustrated presentations (ideally using
ICT and Powerpoint) as follows.
Group 1: Looking at wheat seeds Group 2: Storing the grain Group 3: Steps in
turning the seeds to bread Group 4: The environment in which grain grows
Plenary
Discuss the findings from AS 'Wheat in the UK' and AS 'The growing year' if
not done above. Then each group presents their work from IP 'Looking at wheat
seeds' to the class.
Homework or extension ideas
Ask students to use the internet to research the main types of grain grown
across Europe, and present their findings on an outline map of Europe.
