Lesson Overviews

Healthy Eating
This three lesson project looks at ways to reach a healthy balanced diet.

The project is aimed at Key Stage 2 pupils in years 5/6 covering QCA Science Unit 5A ‘Keeping Healthy’ and fits into the Literacy Strategy on instructional texts, descriptive writing, and designing and writing a leaflet.

Food Can Science
These three lesson plans are designed to assist children learning more about the properties of materials and which of these properties are useful. It also includes a test to find the properties of a material and to learn which materials are renewable and which are finite.

The project is aimed at Key Stage Two pupils in years 3/4 (the activities could be differentiated for older pupils), and covers QCA Science Unit 3C – ‘materials and their characteristics’ and Education for Sustainable Development.

Making Cans
These two lessons show how to locate information from a text source in order to complete a sequential text activity. There is also an activity to understand how to measure the capacity of a range of cylinders.

Aimed at Key Stage 2, Years 4 – 6, the lessons cover Literacy Strategy – sequential texts and reading for information and Numeracy Strategy – measuring volumes, measuring using a range of units and estimating measurements.

Filling
This three lesson unit looks at why foods decay and how canning has developed as a food preservation method and to gain an insight into the canning process.

The lessons are aimed at Key Stage 2, Years 4 – 6, and cover QCA Science Unit 6B ‘Micro-organisms’ and Literacy Strategy – writing an interview/sequential writing.

Labelling
These three lessons make children look more closely at the labels used on cans and think about what they tell us and how they help to sell a product.

This is aimed at Key Stage 2, Years 4 – 6, and covers Art & Design – layout, lettering and general design of a food label and Literacy Strategy – using language effectively describe and persuade.

Advertising
The three lessons have been developed for children to investigate the world of advertising and begin to appreciate the power that advertising has on the ability to sell a product.

The lessons are targeted at Key Stage 2, Years 4 – 6, and include Literacy Strategy - writing to persuade, use of adjectives, descriptive writing.

Recycling
This three lesson project encourages children to understand how steel cans are made and recycled and know how these processes affect the environment. Using this acquired knowledge the children can help promote local environmental change in your area.

The project is aimed at Key Stage 2 pupils (each activity can be differentiated by outcome), and covers Literacy Strategy - sequencing ideas, communicating by letter and poster, Numeracy Strategy - collecting and handling data, QCA Science: Units involving materials and their properties, and PSHE and Citizenship: playing their part as active citizens.