1. Farmerama Topic Map Year 3

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

4. 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

5. 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).

6. 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

7. History  Ways of farming in history- strip farming  Changes in job roles over time  Link to machinery designed in the industrial revolution

8. Mathematics  Money-selling at markets/buying your equipment/animal feed  Fractions-dividing up your land/fields

9. Topic map Mathematics Science Geography Music History Drama Art MFL Literacy Design and technology