Tasty Tomatoes: activities ages 7-11

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Create a tip-top lesson using our cross-curricular activities about tomatoes. Choose from a selection of topics aimed at 7- to 11-year-olds, covering subjects including English, science, maths and geography.

 

Lesson highlights:

  • Create a 3D tomato
  • Investigate the Fibonacci sequence in plants and nature
  • Discover what plants need to grow and develop
  • Grow your own tomatoes

Curriculum

England

Speaking and listening

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

Mathematics

  • Draw 2-D shapes and make 3-D shapes using modelling materials; recognise 3-D shapes in different orientations and describe them
  • Visualise and describe 2D and 3D shapes and the way they behave, making more precise use of geometrical language, especially that of triangles, quadrilaterals, and prisms and pyramids of various kinds; recognise when shapes are identical.
  • Make and draw with increasing accuracy 2D and 3D shapes and patterns.
  • Visualise 3D shapes from 2D drawings.
  • Recognise, describe and build simple 3-D shapes, including making nets

Science

  • Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem, leaves and flowers
  • Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant
  • Explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.

Design and technology

  • Understand and apply the principles of a healthy and varied diet
  • Prepare and cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes using a range of cooking techniques
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.

Mathematics

  • I have explored simple 3D objects and 2D shapes and can identify, name and describe their features using appropriate vocabulary.
  • Having explored a range of 3D objects and 2D shapes, I can use mathematical language to describe their properties, and through investigation can discuss where and why particular shapes are used in the environment.
  • Through practical activities, I can show my understanding of the relationship between 3D objects and their nets.

Science

  • By investigating the lifecycles of plants and animals, I can recognise the different stages of their development.
  • By exploring the characteristics offspring inherit when living things reproduce, I can distinguish between inherited and non-inherited characteristics.

Design and technology

  • I understand that my body needs energy to function and that this comes from the food I eat.
  • By investigating the range of foods available I can discuss how they contribute to a healthy diet.
  • I experience a sense of enjoyment and achievement when preparing simple healthy foods and drinks.
  • 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
Wales

Speaking and listening

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

Mathematics

  • Make 2-D and 3-D shapes and patterns with increasing accuracy
  • Understand the congruence of 2-D shapes
  • Know and use the properties of 2-D (polygon) and common 3-D (polyhedron) shapes

Science

  • Search for, access and select relevant scientific information, from a range of sources, including ICT
  • Opportunities to study the need for a variety of foods and exercise for human good health
  • Through fieldwork, the plants and animals found in two contrasting local environments, e.g. identification, nutrition, life cycles, place in environment

Design and technology

  • Plan and carry out a broad range of practical food preparation tasks safely and hygienically
  • Apply current healthy eating messages and consider nutritional needs when undertaking food preparation tasks
  • Classify food by commodity/group and understand the characteristics of a broad range of ingredients, including their nutritional, functional and sensory properties, e.g. meat, fish, fruit, vegetables
Northern Ireland

Speaking and listening

  • 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.

Mathematics

  • Construct a range of regular and irregular 2D shapes; classify these through examination of angles and sides...
  • Name and describe common 2D shapes; begin to understand congruence in 2D shapes.
  • Construct 3D shapes; investigate the number of faces, edges and vertices on these shapes.
  • Name and describe common 3D shapes; explore the relationship between 2D and 3D shapes.

Science

  • The main stages in the lifecycle of some living things. Plants and plant growth.

Design and technology

  • The importance of keeping healthy...
  • Being aware of how to care for his/her own body in order to keep it healthy and well, for example, by talking about which foods are healthy, by talking about the importance of regular exercise and physical activity...
  • Recognising and valuing the options for a healthy lifestyle, including the benefits of exercise, rest, healthy eating and hygiene

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