Category : Year 3/4

Session 3 – Climate Change Farm in a Box Project

Such a fun way to learn about the very serious role of Greenhouse Gases in Climate Change! 

This game helped the pupils to see how the rise in GHG’s (yellow bib players) is trapping more of the sun’s energy (orange bib players) within the Earth’s atmosphere and as a result causing Global Warming.

Session 2 of Year Four’s ‘Climate Action – Farm in a BOX’ Project.

This afternoon, pupils considered the difference between weather and climate. We looked at how daily weather changes affect our lives and the lives of Farmers through the Farmers year game. The pupils considered how climate change is affecting the Farmer’s annual cycle and how their work load can be dramatically affected by the severe weather in a typically, predictable maritime climate.

The pupils examined photo-cards and considered the challenges of land in various spots across the farm. Out on our school field, the children then were able to locate a similar spot and worked as a team to measure the temperature of the soil and assess the weather conditions in this area. As teams, the children worked well to interpret a farm’s rainfall data, which was presented as a graph. They looked at an average data set and compared it to the measurement taken oven one year. The children were able to deduce that climate changes have resulted in heavier or less rainfall during unexpected months.

Session One

The Y3/4 children have been talking about COP 26 in Glasgow this fortnight. Today, they were excited to participate in our first ‘Climate Change Farm in a Box’ session.

We began by watching a video, presented by a boy called Harry who explained the inputs, processes and outputs of a farm. Some of these we already knew, but there were a few interesting ones to consider such as the farming of solar and wind energy.

Feely Bags were then passed around the class as the pupils tried to work out what was in the bag and how it represented a Farming input or output.

After this discussion, we went outside. We calculated that to grow enough wheat to feed one person for a year, the farmer would need an area of 15 metres squared! We use a variety of measuring tools and worked as teams to mark out the area. Here we are stood around the perimeter! We were quite taken back by the amount of land needed just to feed one person!

We then considered if this person ate foods other than wheat, such as beef. We were staggered to calculate that this required 79 squared metres of the farmers land! We got out the trundle wheel and found that this area was equivalent to the majority of our enormous school field!