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Farmerama Topic Map Year 3 . Science Grow own vegetables (and hopefully sell on at summer fete) Life cycle of plants What do plants, animals and humans need to live and grow? Healthy Eating/Food Groups Seasons Forces and motion-farm vehicles Classifications Food webs. Geography
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Science • Grow own vegetables (and hopefully sell on at summer fete) • Life cycle of plants • What do plants, animals and humans need to live and grow? • Healthy Eating/Food Groups • Seasons • Forces and motion-farm vehicles • Classifications • Food webs
Geography • Food miles-visit a supermarket, where does our food come from?—link to world maps • Trade/Fair trade. Coffee/Tea/Chocolate • Location of settlement/landscapes-build up on their own farm. • Drought/Flooding/Insects/War: Things can affect farming worldwide-look at other countries
Literacy • Instructional writing- growing instructions, seed packaging. Create own instructions-link to ICT-use iPad apps like strip designer. • Storytelling- Use farm based books (Mudpuddle Farm: Michael Morpurgo), tell their own stories, write their own stories. Puppets, farm models-build their own farm, use it a prop to tell a story. • Day in life of a farm hand, a farmer, a dairy farmer, farm animal (personification).
Music/Drama/Art/MFL/DT • Farm sound scape based on a farm image • Singing farming songs • Role play • Graphic scores/Animal noises • Create/Design farm signage or farmer’s market signage • Names of animals in a modern foreign language/farming songs • Design and build farm machinery-wheels/treads
History • Ways of farming in history- strip farming • Changes in job roles over time • Link to machinery designed in the industrial revolution
Mathematics • Money-selling at markets/buying your equipment/animal feed • Fractions-dividing up your land/fields
Drama Mathematics Music Art Topic map Design and technology Science Literacy History MFL Geography