A Day at the Country Show

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Explore a country show using our cross-curricular activities. Choose from a selection of topics aimed at 7- to 11-year-olds, covering subjects including English, history, science and geography.

Lesson highlights:

  • Investigate how a cow digests grass
  • Discover what farming was like in the past
  • Explore the anatomy of an apple
  • Find out about the stages of a chick hatching

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, hypothesizing, imagining and exploring ideas

Science

  • Describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals
  • Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways
  • Asking relevant questions and using different types of scientific enquiries to answer them 

Design and Technology

  • Understand and apply the principles of a healthy and varied diet
  • Understand seasonality, and know where and how a variety of ingredients are grown

History

  • A study of an aspect or theme in British history
  • Changes in an aspect of social history

Writing

  • Plan their writing by identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own 
Scotland

Spoken Language

  • I can show my understanding of what 
I listen to or watch by responding to literal, inferential, evaluative and other types of questions, and by asking different kinds of questions of my own

Science

  • I can identify and classify examples of living things, past and present, to
help me appreciate their diversity. I can relate physical and behavioral characteristics to their survival or extinction
  • By investigating the lifecycles of plants and animals, I can recognize the different stages of their development.

Design and Technology

  • When preparing and cooking a variety of foods, I am becoming aware of the journeys which foods make from source to consumer, their seasonality, their
local availability and their sustainability
  • By investigating food labeling systems, I can begin to understand how to use them to make healthy food choices

History

  • I can compare and contrast a society in the past with my own and contribute to a discussion of the similarities and differences

Writing

  • I am learning to use language and style in a way which engages and/or influences my reader 
Wales

Spoken Language

  • Identify key points and follow up ideas through question and comment, developing response to others in order to learn through talk

Science

  • Through fieldwork,
the plants and animals found in two contrasting local environments, e.g. identification, nutrition, life cycles, place in environment
  • How humans affect the local environment

Design and Technology

  • Classify food by commodity/group
and understand the characteristics of a broad range of ingredients, including their nutritional, functional and sensory properties

History

  • Identify differences between ways of life at different times
  • Identify significant people and describe events within and across periods

Writing

  • Writing in a range of forms
  • Choose and use appropriate vocabulary

 

Northern Ireland

Spoken Language

  • Participate in group and class discussions for
a variety of curricular purposes
  • Share, respond to and evaluate ideas, arguments and points of view and use evidence or reason to justify opinions, actions or proposals
  • Identify and ask appropriate questions to seek information, views and feelings

Science

  • Ways in which people, plants and animals depend on the features and materials in places and how they adapt to their environment
  • How living things rely on each other within the natural world

Design and Technology

  • Ways in which people, plants and animals depend on the features and materials in places and how they adapt to their environment

History

  • How change is a feature of the human and natural world and may have consequences for our lives and the world around us

Writing

  • Express thoughts, feelings and opinions in imaginative and factual writing

 

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