FarmeramaTopic 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 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

Topic map

Mathematics

Science

Geography

Music

History

Drama

Art

MFL

Literacy

Design and technology