Crunchy Peppers: activities

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Pick a peck of perfect learning resources from our cross-curricular activities about peppers. Choose from a selection of topics aimed at 7- to 11-year-olds, covering subjects including English, maths, history and science.

Lesson highlights:

  • A creative writing exercise all about growing peppers
  • Explore the anatomy of a pepper and label the diagram
  • Investigate the life and adventures of Christopher Columbus 

Curriculum

England

Speaking and listening

  • 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.

History

  • Understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.

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.
Scotland

Speaking and listening

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

Writing

  • I enjoy creating texts of my choice and I regularly select subject, purpose, format and resources to suit the needs of my audience.

History

  • I understand that evidence varies in the extent to which it can be trusted and can use this in learning about the past.

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.
Wales

Speaking and listening

  • 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.

History

  • How people and places have changed over time.

Art and design

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

Speaking and listening

  • 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.

History

  • How people and places have changed over time.

Art and design

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

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