Ancient Oil: activities

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

Lesson highlights:

  • Discover the history of olive oil
  • Find out how olive oil is extracted
  • Investigate some weird and wonderful uses for olive oil
  • Research different methods of oil extraction

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

Writing

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

Art and design

  • To improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials

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

Science

  • Using straightforward scientific evidence to answer questions or to support their findings 
  • Use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating

History

  • The legacy of Greek or Roman culture
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

Writing

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

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

  • 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

Science

  • I have collaborated in investigations to compare gravitational forces and have explored their practical applications

History

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

Spoken language

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

Writing

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

Art and design

  • Design and make two- dimensional images using a range of various materials for a variety of purposes

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

Science

  • Check observations and measurements by repeating them in order to collect reliable data
  • The ways in which forces can affect movement and how forces can be compared

History

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

Writing

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

Art and design

  • Use a range of media, materials, tools and processes such as: drawing, painting, printmaking, malleable materials, textiles and three-dimensional construction, selecting which is appropriate in order to realize personal ideas and intentions

Science

  • The causes and effect of energy, forces and movement

History

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