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How does farming in the 1950s differ to today's? |
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| Author | Rebecca Cramer, Lea Valley High School | | Topic | WWII: Agriculture, Farming | | Key Words | Common Agricultural Policy, farming methods | | Curriculum links | NC geography |
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This short, silent home movie records a family's first experiences of country living. In the clip, family members and hired workers are seen going about core farming activities: ploughing, sowing and harvesting.
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This clip can be used either at the start of a unit on primary economic activity or at the start of a section specifically on farming - a hook to a lesson on the Common Agricultural Policy or mechanisation of agriculture for examples. Alternatively can be used as an assessment for learning summarising plenary.
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Activity Play the first minute of film to the pupils. They have 3 minutes after the film to write a voice over to the film. Some can then be read out over the film. An alternative could be that pupils have slightly longer to draw a witty cartoon strip of the film. If this is used as a starter than pupils could draw a matching cartoon strip at the end of the lesson to describe farming in today's economic climate. This leads to a teacher-led structured discussion, exploring what the film tells us about agriculture in the 1950s. How and why has it changed since then? |
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Some more ideas - Write voiceovers to accompany the clip from different perspectives
- Ask students to draw a storyboard for a short broadcast piece 'Farming: Then and Now', using shots from this clip as well as their own shot ideas taken from contemporary farming life, brought together with a voiceover.
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