Key Stage: 3 Year : 7 Lesson number: ___ Time: _______________ Date: ____/____/_______ Lesson title: Where does red meat come from? Curriculum links (Remove links which are not applicable) Country Curriculum Links Design and technology: Cooking and nutrition: understand the source, seasonality and England characteristics of a broad range of ingredients. Learning for life and work: Independent living - investigate a range of factors that influence Northern Ireland consumer choices and decisions Wales Design and technology: Food: classify food by commodity/group and understand the characteristics of a broad range of ingredients, including their nutritional, functional and sensory properties Learning Learning Learning outcomes (what we are looking for) objective To explain the Students will be able to identify how cattle, pigs and sheep are farmed source of red in the UK. meat. To recognise the Students should be able to provide reasons why food assurance importance of schemes, e.g. Red tractor reassures consumers when they are Food assurance choosing food products. schemes. Teaching and learning activities Time Activity Resources and equipment 0 Welcome and registration Lesson plan Introduce the learning objectives. 5 Ask students to write down three words which they would Projector, . use to describe pig farming. Play the Career Digi Bite video Pig farming. Ask students to write down three new words to describe pig farming. Did their opinions about pig farming change? Explain to the students they will be looking at farming livestock for red meat. 10 Use the Where does red meat come from? PowerPoint Where does red presentation to explain the different types of farming and the meat come from? lifecycle of cattle, sheep and pigs. PowerPoint presentation. There may be some terms which students are unfamiliar with. Explain that weaning is where the animals are taken away from their mothers and they begin to feed independently. Finishing may also need to be explained, where the animals are placed on a special diet to bring them up to a weight where they can be sold either at a livestock auction or direct to an abattoir
Key Stage: 3 Year : 7 Lesson number: ___ Time: _______________ Date: ____/____/_______ Lesson title: Where does red meat come from? Curriculum links (Remove links which are not applicable) Country Curriculum Links England Design and technology: Cooking and nutrition: understand the source, seasonality and characteristics of a broad range of ingredients. Northern Ireland Learning for life and work: Independent living - investigate a range of factors that influence consumer choices and decisions Wales Design and technology: Food: classify food by commodity/group and understand the characteristics of a broad range of ingredients, including their nutritional, functional and sensory properties Learning Learning objective Learning outcomes (what we are looking for) To explain the source of red meat. Students will be able to identify how cattle, pigs and sheep are farmed in the UK. To recognise the importance of Food assurance schemes. Students should be able to provide reasons why food assurance schemes, e.g. Red tractor reassures consumers when they are choosing food products. Teaching and learning activities Time Activity Resources and equipment 0 5 Welcome and registration Introduce the learning objectives. Ask students to write down three words which they would use to describe pig farming. Play the Career Digi Bite video Pig farming. Ask students to write down three new words to describe pig farming. Did their opinions about pig farming change? Explain to the students they will be looking at farming livestock for red meat. Lesson plan Projector, . 10 Use the Where does red meat come from? PowerPoint presentation to explain the different types of farming and the lifecycle of cattle, sheep and pigs. There may be some terms which students are unfamiliar with. Explain that weaning is where the animals are taken away from their mothers and they begin to feed independently. Finishing may also need to be explained, where the animals are placed on a special diet to bring them up to a weight where they can be sold either at a livestock auction or direct to an abattoir Where does red meat come from? PowerPoint presentation.