Literacy:
Save the Honeybee: 
Link to Science & ICT One factor in the decline of honeybees has been shown to be the use of pesticides containing neonicotinoids. To find out how you can help the honey bee population visit the Soil Association's website. This topic would also provide a great letter writing activity for children. Click here for information on how to write to your MP. |
 Sequencing or writing caption for a gardening activity : Link to writing instruction Provide the children with a PowerPoint showing images of a gardening activity (e.g. Sowing seeds), one image to each slide, where the sequence of events has been jumbled. Open the presentation in Slide Sorter view and ask the children to order the sequence. Once it is ordered the children can type sentences with the pictures to provide instructions for someone else to follow the process. Click here for information on sowing seeds The PowerPoint files below are in PowerPoint 2007 and PowerPoint 2003 format. Please let me know if they don't run for you. To download right click over one of the picture below and choose Save target as ... Before using the file set to Slide Sorter view for the sequencing activities. The files with text boxes have control boxes that only are activae when the slide show is running. | 
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Rearrange the slides in order and resave the file if you wish to use the children to just create instructions. Click here to view photographs in correct order. |
| Studying Life Cycles of Garden Minibeasts:  Link to Science and ICT
Research the life cycles of the minbeast that you find in your vegetable patch. Try rearing some of them - you may be lucky and able to find eggs of the ladybird or butterfly. Butterfly rearing kits can be bought commercially click here Take photos and video of your chosen species and use the Internet to find out about their life cycles. Literacy: Take photos and video of your chosen species and use the Internet to find out about their life cycles. Compose a report on your findings maybe using ICT to publish as a Powerpoint Show or information sheet or create a short digital video. Click here for information on wildlife that you may find in your patch |
Click here for Life Cycle kits available from Spotty Boxes |
 Making a Bird Cake and Feeder Link to Design Technology and Science You can make various kinds of winter treats to help the birds through the cold winter when food is scarce. Different types of birds feed in different ways. Blue tits will cling upside down, sparrows will cling to hanging containers, robins will visit bird tables and blackbirds like to feed on the ground. If you want to provide them all with treats them you will need to create some treats to hang in trees, some to put on a bird table and others to place on the ground or on low feeding tables. Click here for more information Literacy: Create a piece of text with diagrams to instruct someone else on how to create a similar feeder |
Design a Side Salad:  Link to Design Technology, Science - healthy eating, and ICT
Research the types of side salads that are available in the local supermarket and what type of combinations of ingredients are used,. Focus in particular on the types of salads that have ingredients that you are growing in your vegetable patch. Design a tasty side salad. Take a digital photograph of the finished salad Literacy: Using recipe book conventions write the recipe so that someone else can reproduce your salad. Each recipe can be incorpoarated into a class recipe book or a class recipe website |
Food Miles:  Link to Geography
Research where imported fruit and vegetables come from and how far different vegetables and fruit travel to be available in our shops.We are being encouraged to buy local seasonal produce but people demand food at times when it is not available in the UK. A large display map could be used with pictures of the various foods placed in the locations that they are imported from. Literacy: Speaking & Listening and Persuasive text Older pupils could debate whether foods should be available year round or whether importing from far away countries this the environment too much. |
Life Cycles of Vegetable Plants:  Link to ICT and Science Study the life cycle of a chosen vegetable plant and create an information sheet or PowerPoint show explaining the life cycle Click here to read information on resources available to support this project
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