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!

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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!