Farmer Activity 2: B&B Brochure (0.95 mb)
Pupils design a brochure advertising a farm B&B holiday using ICT.
DownloadCountryside Investigators classroom activities
Teachers can choose from a bank of 20 Classroom activities, two for each of the 10 rural jobs. The activities are simple to set up, practical and include other elements of the website such as the videos, games and quizzes.
Each activity has a lesson plan detailing learning objectives, resources required, timings, curriculum information and extension ideas. All of the notes have been written by experienced primary school teachers.
The activities are accompanied by copyable worksheets to provide instructions and to enable pupils to generate ideas and record notes or results. The complete lesson plans with worksheets can be downloaded and printed as PDFs.
The Classroom activities are based on a number of popular themes from National Curriculum subjects including: Geography, Citizenship, English, Science, Maths, Art and Design & Technology. Please note that the curriculum links on these PDF files currently refer to England and Wales only but the activities can also be based on the following Scottish Curriculum for Excellence subjects: Social Studies, Science, Literacy, Health and well-being and Expressive Arts.
Differentiation
Differentiation has been included in the range of Classroom activities. The lessons cover a whole spectrum of abilities and teachers can pick the ones that suit their pupils’ needs the best. While a lesson on honey-tasting for example might suit medium to lower ability pupils best, another one on researching and writing an ad for a vet practice might be more appropriate for higher ability pupils. Rather than including detailed differentiation in the lesson plans, we leave it up to teachers to match the activities on offer to their pupils’ needs.
The Countryside Alliance Foundation advises teachers to download the Health and safety checklist for classroom activities.
Farm Lesson Plans
▸ Farm Pdf's
Farm Vet Activity 1: Use Your Ad (1.29 mb)
Pupils learn about what farm vets do by creating an advertisement for one.
DownloadFarmer Activity 1: Farm Zoom (1.29 mb)
Pupils find out what real farms look like and how they shape the landscape.
DownloadFarm Vet Activity 2: Vet Visit (1.01 mb)
Pupils learn about the work of farm vets by meeting one and asking questions.
DownloadGamekeeper Activity 1: What Is It Like To Be A Gamekeeper? (1.13 mb)
Pupils learn what being a gamekeeper involves and what skills might be needed.
DownloadGamekeeper Activity 2: Dog Drama (1.15 mb)
Pupils learn about the countryside code and the role of gamekeepers in protecting nesting birds.
DownloadVillage Lesson Plans
▸ Village Pdf's
Shopkeeper Activity 1: Shop Drop (1.65 mb)
Pupils learn about the way in which rural communities are changing and how this affects life, by looking at village shop closures.
DownloadShopkeeper Activity 2: Post Office Presentation (1.28 mb)
Pupils find out how village shops are adapting to survive in the present age.
DownloadThatcher Activity 1: Match A Thatcher (1.02 mb)
Pupils learn about thatching and what the job involves.
DownloadThatcher Activity 2: Regions And Roofs (1.11 mb)
Pupils learn that different regions of the country traditionally use different building materials for roofs and why this is so.
DownloadWoodland Lesson Plans
▸ Woodland Pdf's
Forester Activity 1: Tremendous Trees (1.32 mb)
Pupils learn about the products that we obtain from trees.
DownloadForester Activity 2: Forest Food Chains (1.02 mb)
Pupils learn about the plants and animals found in woodland ecosystems, examples of forest food chains.
DownloadBeekeeper Activity 2: Honey Time (1.04 mb)
Pupils learn about honey and how it can be used in various recipes.
DownloadClassroom activities: Download All
You can download all 20 classroom activities and worksheets in one Zip file, by clicking on the link above.