Grains Education Pack Looking at culture, traditions, and use of grains in society Activities and Discussion topics for 5-13 year olds Contents Introduction 2 Teachers notes 3 Fact Sheet 1 Food, tradition and beliefs 5 Fact Sheet 1 The People of Boyaca in Rural Colombia 6 Fact Sheet 1 The Atitecho People 7 Activity Sheet 1 The Weather report 8 Fact Sheet 2 Grain Growing 9 Fact Sheet 2 Worldwide 10 Fact Sheet 2 Cultivation 11 Activity Sheet 2 Sour Dough Starters and Rye Bread 12 Activity Sheet 2 Sour Dough Starters and Rye Bread 13 Fact Sheet 3 Harvesting 14 Fact Sheet 3 Harvest Home 15 Activity Sheet 3 Straw Crafts 16 Activity Sheet 3 Straw Crafts 17 Activity Sheet 3 Straw Crafts 18 Activity Sheet 3 Straw Crafts 19 Fact Sheet 4 Milling 20 Fact Sheet 4 Mills 21 Activity Sheet 4 Weights and measures 22 Fact Sheet 5 Baking 23 Activity Sheet 5 Friendship Cake 24 Activity Sheet 5 Celebrate and decorate 25 Activity Sheet 5 Celebrate and decorate 26 Activity Sheet 5 Celebrate and decorate 27 Activity Sheet 5 Celebrate and decorate 28 Fact Sheet 6 Growing grains in the UK 29 Activity Sheet 6 Grow your own grains 31 Activity Sheet 6 Grow your own grains 32 Bibliography 33 Further resources 34 1 Introduction Grains and bread are universal themes which are valued and used the world over. They act as a vital food source for the majority of the planet, thus creating discussion topics for local activities as well as wider global issues. Young people can learn by hands-on activities, such as bread-making and dough craft, as well as exploring the wider themes of culture and tradition offered in the pack. The pack can be used for adults and children between the ages of 5 and 13 in working situations, on a farm or inside a teaching room. It can be used as an information source, providing cultural, traditional and domestic references for grains and bread. The pack is divided into Fact Sheets and Activity Sheets, which complement one another and can be used together or separately. The activity sheets are designed as 'stand-alone' sheets, which can be pulled out and photocopied for distribution with a group. 'The pack aims to be a resource material that can be used both within the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens network and within schools and young people’s educational settings. It can be used as a handout for visiting groups, and form a starting point for educational activities producing new ideas and leading to further research. The teachers' notes provide guidance and cross-curricular information to enable the pack to be used within schools, where it is best suited for Key Stage 2 children. 2 Teachers Notes Although this pack is aimed at 5-13 year The fact sheets and activities serve to olds, most of its contents are best suited to provide background and guidance to Key Stage 2 children. It has not been written teachers who will be able to adapt their with reference to specific National content to the age and ability of their class Curriculum programmes of study but offers a of children. However some pages are wider cross-curricular approach to the study suitable for direct use with children as of grains. Alternatively, teachers can use photocopiable resources. Some of the craft individual fact sheets or activities, weaving activities require the manual dexterity of Key them into their own existing or future Stage 3 children, whilst younger children teaching plans. For this purpose, the table may need more adult supervision to achieve and additional notes below identify National success. Curriculum subject links with reference to specific fact and activity sheets. Grains - Education Pack Links with the National Curriculum / QCA Schemes of work Facts and 12345 Activities Food, traditions Grain Harvesting Milling Baking Sheets & belief growing Literacy ✓✓✓✓✓ key stage 1, 2 1, 2 1, 2, 3 1, 2, 3 1, 2, 3 Numeracy ✓✓✓ key stage 1, 2 1, 2 1, 2 Science ✓✓✓✓✓ key stage 2 2 2 2, 3 2 Geography ✓✓✓✓✓ key stage 2 2, 3 2 2 2 History ✓✓✓✓ key stage 1, 2 1, 2 1, 2 1, 2 Religious Education ✓ ✓✓✓ key stage 1, 2, 3 1, 2, 3 1, 2 1, 2 Design Technology ✓✓✓ key stage 1, 2 1, 2 1, 2, 3 Art & Design ✓✓ key stage 1, 2, 3 1, 2, 3 Teachers notes 3 Literacy: • Past and present religious celebrations • Explanatory text (sayings predicting the and symbols relating to the farming year - weather) - Activity 1 Fact Sheet 3, Activities 3,4 &5 • Instructional texts (using recipes and craft Geography: skills) - Activities 2, 3, 4 • Weather predicting from old or traditional • Use of diagrams to support texts - sayings - Activities 1 Activities 3 & 5 & Fact Sheet 2 • Seasonal food cycles and the global • Technical vocabulary (associated with market place - Fact Sheet 1 grain processing) - Fact sheets 4 • Grain as a world-wide food - Fact Sheet 2 Numeracy: • The farming year related to religious • Number calculations - Activity 4 festivals - Fact Sheet 3 • Measuring (weighing, timing, • Processing grains into food items - Fact temperature) - Activities 2, 4, 5 Sheets 4 & 5 • Using metric, imperial (-with ref. to History: historical background) & N & S American • History of cereals - Fact Sheet 2 measuring units - Activities 2, 4, 5 • Traditions associated with the farming • Data Handling (surveys) - Activity 4 year - Fact Sheet 3 Science: • History of imperial measures - Fact • Sc2 - Life & Living processes Sheet 4 • Relating weather sayings to knowledge of • History of milling - Fact Sheet 4 plants and animals - Activity 1 • History of baking - Fact Sheet 5 • Using yeast as a useful microorganism in Design Technology: bread making - Activities 2 • Bread making around the world - • Yearly crop life cycles linked to religious Activities 2 celebrations - Fact Sheet 3 • Past to present milling technology - Fact • Structure and function of parts of wheat Sheet 4 seed - Fact Sheet 4 • Nutritional value of wheat - Fact Sheet 4 • Nutritional value of wheat - Fact Sheet 4 • Design and make a cereal packet - • Role of grain in human food chains - Fact Activities 4 Sheet 4 • Investigating cereal products - Activities 4 • Sc3 - Materials and their properties • Making a friendship cake - Activities 4 • Straw - uses related to properties - • Skills in decorative bread designs - Activities 3 Activities 5 • Clay, brick, metal -materials used for oven Art and Design: from past to present - Fact Sheet 5 • Straw crafts skills - plaiting, winding, • Chemical changes by mixing and heating looping, binding, bending and fixing - (yeast and cooking) - Activities 4 & 5 Activities 3 • Sc4 Physical Processes • Making decorative breads by rolling, • Forces and friction in milling and grinding kneading, twisting, knotting, plaiting - Fact Sheet 4 techniques, and changing sizes, shapes, Religious Education: textures and colours - Activities 5 • South American religious beliefs and stories relating to crops - Fact Sheet 1 Teachers notes 4 Food, tradition and beliefs 1 From seed to supper For many people across the world, the growing of grain and the making of bread is Few of us today follow the full cycle from still a central part of everyday life. Because ‘seed to supper’, from digging the earth and of this, the activities of grain-growing and planting seed, to cooking with the plants bread-making are often close to the heart of that we grow. Most of us live in towns or their ideas about nature, the world and cities, buy our food in supermarkets and religion. don’t know when vegetables, grains and fruits are truly in season. We can buy strawberries at any time of the year now. In fact, most people in Britain can buy foods everyday, out of season, that have travelled across the continents of the world to be on our shelves. We may no longer be tied to our environment as earlier generations were, shaping their lives around the natural seasonal cycle. However it is essential that we keep in touch with it. Our future viability in living sustainably on the earth depends on our awareness of these natural systems. One way of doing that is by looking at our relationship with our food and where it comes from, both now and in the past. Looking at how Growing grain important growing grain has been to Growing grain in Britain has been humankind, we might think that we began to interwoven into our way of life for millennia. learn how to control nature when we learnt It has shaped many parts of our culture - to cultivate grain. However, there are many from the festivals we hold and the kinds of peoples of the world who think that to grow bread we make, to how we weigh and grain means to live in balance with nature - measure things and even how we build our to be working with it, rather than in charge houses. There has clearly been a time when of it. growing grains kept us more in touch with On the following pages are two illustrations nature than we are today. of this way of thinking. Food, tradition and beliefs 5 The People of Boyaca in rural 1 Colombia The rural people from Boyaca say that it is Some areas of land are known to give more the nature of the earth to give force, “la force and bigger crops than others. But fuerza.” We might think of this force as many of the Boyaca people say that despite something like nature’s powers. Over and this, all their land gives less now and needs over again people say, “the land gives” - “La much more help from humans. The people tierra da”. So, to the people of Boyaca, food believe that this is not the land’s fault, for it is ‘given’, by the land.
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