English
- Ask and answer questions about tins
- Discuss, hypothesise and argue the possible uses of tins
- Write stories about tins
- Record information
- Describe how to make, or pack a tin
- Write a description of a tin for others to identify
- Describe how to make biscuits
- Collect appropriate adjectives to describe tins
- Share stories like the gingerbread man
Art & Design
- Design and make a container for biscuits
- Design a tin for a particular purpose
- Make biscuits
- Design an advert
- Create biscuits shapes with salt dough or clay
Geography
- Places to visit, home and abroad
Maths
- Weighing ingredients for making biscuits
- Use nets to make boxes
- Explore 2 and 3 dimensional shapes in both biscuits and tins
- Tessellation
- Problem solving strategies eg. How to fit different shaped biscuits into a tin
- Estimate how many biscuits will fit in a tin
- Use timers to work out how long it takes to pack a tin
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History
- Develop knowledge and understanding of events, people and changes in the past
- Explore the way of life of the locality in the past
- How work has changed
- Look for architectural clues that suggest age and use of buildings
- Gain understanding of Victorian life through handling real objects from the period
- Sorting old and new objects
- Observing and commenting on how things have changed eg. methods of packaging biscuits
Science
- Materials and their uses
- Sorting materials suitable for wrapping - keeping a biscuit dry, whole, separate
- Use the senses
- Communicate findings in different ways
- Make simple experiments - what happens if sugar is left out of the biscuit recipe?
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