Rice: Introductory activities

Key info:
Download printable version

Rev up your lesson using our cross-curricular activities about rice. Choose from a selection of topics aimed at 7-11-year-olds, covering subjects including geography, spoken language and design and technology.

Lesson highlights:

  • Lead a discussion about rice and rice facts
  • Learn about different types of rice from around the world
  • Understand where rice grows
  • Discover more about Thailand

Curriculum

England

Spoken language

  • Ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge.
  • Use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary.
  • Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role-play, improvisations and debates.

Geography

  • Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied.

Design and Technology

  • Understand seasonality, and know where and how a variety of ingredients are grown, reared, caught and processed.
Scotland

Spoken language

  • Communicate clearly when engaging with others within and beyond [their] place of learning, using selected resources as required; find, select, sort and use information for a specific purpose.

Geography

  • Extend mental map and sense of place; interpret information from different types of maps and begin to locate features within Scotland, UK, Europe and the wider world.

Design and Technology

  • Become aware of the journeys which foods make from source to consumer, their seasonality, their local availability and their sustainability.
Wales

Spoken language

  • Experiencing and responding to a variety of stimuli and ideas; communicating for a range of purposes.

Geography

  • Identify and locate places and environments using globes, atlases and maps.

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.
Northern Ireland

Spoken language

  • Describe and talk about real experiences and imaginary situations and about people, places, events and artefacts.

Geography

  • Explore features of, and variations in places, including physical, human, climatic, vegetation and animal life.

Design and Technology

  • Explore features of, and variations in places, including physical, human, climatic, vegetation and animal life.

We think you might like...