Starting from storyStarting from storyGeography and Food

Our Food: act local think global – KS1

• Starting from story we will think about where our food comes. Five different picture book stories introduce the idea of food that is grown in our immediate locality, in the region around our homes and in the wider world. An important outcome for the session will be an understanding of how we can help children to understand how food connects us to people both locally and globally.

• Curriculum links: geography, healthy eating, citizenship & PHSE

Starting from StoryStory Place Food

Oliver’s Vegetables Local: Very local – grandpa’s allotment garden, think about veg box schemes

Carrots, potatoes, onions, cabbages, spinach. Rhubarb, beetroot, peas,

Oliver’s Milkshake Regional: Local region: farming, farm shops – dairy

Milkshakes, milk, blueberries

Oliver’s Fruit Salad Global: food from a number of different places around the world, i.e. look at what is on offer in a UK supermarket.

Apples, pears,plums,cherries,strawberries,pineapple, bananas,grapes

Mama Panya’s Pancakes

Local area in Kenya, rural, market produce helps us to understand what food local people eat

Pancakes, maize flour, milk, butter, spices, fish

Handa’s Surpise Local area, Kenya –fruits that are grown in Kenya

Pineapple, mangos, avocado, guava, banana etc.

Geographical understanding can be developed through the use of picture books

Geography is about Place

From the point of view of the character in the story can you answer the following questions?

• Where do I live? • How does it look? • How do I feel about it? • How is it changing? • How do I want it to

change?

Geography is about SPACE

Draw a map• Is there enough

information in the book to:• Map a route that a

character in your story walks

• Map the layout of the village, street etc

Geographical understanding can be developed through the use of picture books

Geography is about the relationship between people & place

Answer from the point of view of the character in the story

• Identity• Who am I? • Where do I come from? • Who is my family? • What is my ‘story’? • Who are the people around

me? • Where do they come from?

What is their ‘story’?

Geography is about `real people’ who live in `real places’

• Find images of people who live in a similar place to the characters in the story.

• www.flickr.com is a good source of quality photographs.

• Can you match photographs of real places to an image that the artist has created for the picture book?

Geography makes Connections between people and places

What connects you to What connects you to the people in your the people in your story?story?

• Do you have Do you have relatives who live relatives who live there?there?

• Do you eat food that Do you eat food that is grown there?is grown there?

• Do you go on Do you go on holiday there?holiday there?

• Do you have a Do you have a school link with the school link with the country?country?

Picture BooksTitle Setting Author ISBN

Oliver’s Vegetables The Local Area – Oliver visits his Grandpa’s allotment.

Vivian FrenchIllus. Alison Bartlett

978-0-340-63479-0Hodder

Oliver’s Milkshake The region in which Oliver lives – he is taken out into the countryside to a farm shop by Auntie Jean

Vivian FrenchIllus. Alison Bartlett

978-0-340-75454-2Hodder

Oliver’s Fruit Salad Oliver goes to the supermarket with his mum where they find fruit from around the world.

Vivian FrenchIllus. Alison Bartlett

978-0-340-70453-0Hodder

Picture BooksMama Panya’s

PancakesA village tale from

Kenya

How can Mama Panya cook pancakes for everyone when she barely has enough money to feed her own son? (Activity: route map; features of Place).

Mary & Rich Chamberlin

IIlus. Julia Cairns

1-905236-63-8Barefoot Books

Handa’s Surprise Handa’s walk carrying a basket full of fruit – set in Kenya

Eileen Browne 0-7445-3634-0Walker Books

Handa’s Hen Explore Handa’s village with her as she looks for Mondi – her black hen. Set in Kenya.

Eileen Browne 978-0-7445-9815-5Walker Books

Picture BooksBut I do know ALL

about chocolateFairtrade chocolate

can make a difference.

Lauren Child 978-0-141-50129-1Puffin / Comic Relief

Non-fiction KS1

Yum Yum … a book about munching, scrunching and slurping – food chain (mainly science)

Mick Manning and Brita Granström

0-7496-3130-9Franklin WATTSWonderwise is a

lovely series – look for other titles

Go Facts Food - Farms

Where food comes from.

Paul McEvoy 0-7136-7288-9A & C Black

Go Facts Food – From Farms to

You

Some foods go through many changes before you buy them – processing food.

Paul McEvoy 0-7136-7290-0A & C Black

Cross-curricular resources for teachers

Unit 3: Our Wider World

Geography: Juicy Journeys

Discover which countries food & vegetables come from

KS1Primary Project Box

978-1-84377-176-0Published by the

Curriculum Partnership

Resources

GLOBAL DIMENSIONS

But I do know ALL about chocolate

• http://www.globaldimension.org.uk/ResourceDetails.aspx?id=1415