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Dig for victory

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of World War 2: A Child's Eye View from the Home Front Rationing

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Objectives

Design and Technology

  • Understand seasonality, and know where and how a variety of ingredients are grown, reared, caught and processed.

History

  • Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British and World history.
  • Ask and address historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity, difference and significance.

Lesson Planning

Discover the need to Dig for Victory at home; find out about the role of women on the home front; make your own mini allotment.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To know which vegetables are naturally able to grow in Britain and to begin to understand seasonality.
  • To consider how our shopping and expectations for fresh fruit and vegetables has changed so significantly since WW2

Children will:

  • Discover the role of women on the home front, including the Land Army.
  • Design and make a mini allotment – planning on how to use all of the space.
  • Learn which fruits and vegetables will grow in our climate and when they would be ‘in season’.
  • Begin to consider the change in the shopping habits and expectations of people living in Britain.

You Will Need

  • Small card box
  • Plasticine
  • Soil
  • Paints and brushes

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