11-14 year olds

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.

Resources
	Growing our grain
	Bread and flour come from wheat
	Growing our grain
	Bread and flour come from wheat – watch the video to see how it's grown
	Farming the wheat
	The wheat farmer's year: what happens when?
	Wheat in the UK (pdf version)
	Comparing wheat farming in different regions (Word version)
	The growing year (pdf version)
	Looking at seasonal changes and their effect on farming (Word version)
	Looking at wheat seeds
	What do wheat grains look like and what happens after the harvest?