Ancient Oil: activities 5-7

Explore the world using our cross-curricular activities about oil. Choose from a selection of topics aimed at 5- to 7-year-olds, covering subjects including English, science and design and technology.

Lesson highlights:

  • Compare some of the different myths and legends surrounding olive oil
  • Identify different European countries from a map
  • Conduct an experiment in separating oil and water
  • Bake delicious cupcakes using grape seed oil

Curriculum

England

Spoken language

  • Ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge
  • Use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary
  • Maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments
  • Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas

Writing

  • Develop positive attitudes towards and stamina for writing by writing for different purposes

Art and design

  • To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space

Design and technology

  • Use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes
  • Understand where food comes from

Science

  • Observing closely, using simple equipment
  • Performing simple tests

History

  • Changes within living memory. Where appropriate, these should be used to reveal aspects of change in national life

Geography

  • Name and locate the world’s seven continents and five oceans
Scotland

Spoken language

  • I can show my understanding of what I listen to or watch by responding to and asking different kinds of questions

Writing

  • I can describe and share my experiences and how they made me feel.

Art and design

  • Inspired by a range of stimuli, I can express and communicate my ideas, thoughts and feelings through activities within art and design

Design and technology

  • I experience a sense of enjoyment and achievement when preparing simple healthy food and drinks
  • I explore and discover where foods come from as I choose, prepare and taste different foods

Science

  • I experience a sense of enjoyment and achievement when preparing simple healthy food and drinks
  • I explore and discover where foods come from as I choose, prepare and taste different foods

History

  • I can compare aspects of people’s daily lives in the past with my own by using historical evidence or the experience of recreating an historical setting

Geography

  • By exploring a natural environment different from my own, I can discover how the physical features influence the variety of living things.
Wales

Spoken language

  • Listen and respond appropriately and effectively with growing attention and concentration
  • Extend their vocabulary through activities that encourage their interest in words

Writing

  • Play with language, as a means of developing their interest in language

Art and design

  • Explore and experiment with a variety of techniques and materials

Science

  • Find out by exploring and experimenting Making observations and measurements and keeping records

History

  • Sequence events, routines and changes Recognise the changes caused by time
  • Begin to identify differences between ways of life at different times

Geography

  • Use and make simple maps, to find where places are and how places relate to other places
Northern Ireland

Spoken language

  • Express thoughts, feelings and opinions in response to personal experiences, imaginary situations, literature, media and curricular topics and activities
  • Present ideas and information with some structure and sequence
  • Devise and ask questions to find information in social situations and across the curriculum

Writing

  • Understand and use a range of vocabulary by investigating and experimenting with language

Art and design

  • Explore the visual elements of colour, tone, line, shape, form, space, texture and pattern to express ideas

History

  • How people and places have changed over time

Geography

  • Features of the immediate world and comparisons between places