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KS2 Flour Power
Wonderful windmills
How is flour made? Come to this hands-on workshop where pupils will become millers for the morning. Learn about wheat and how to grind flour as well as find out how other cultures from around the world mill flour. Pupils will use pestle and mortars and hand-powered millstones to make some flour. They will also design and print a bag for their newly milled ‘healthy’ flour.
Activities
Handling wheat, flour and bread
Role-play: millers’ costume for children to wear
Demonstration of provender mill (Y3 and above)
Tour of the windmill
Creative activities: making flour with a hand-powered millstone; designing and making a bag for flour
Level: KS2: Y3, Y4 and Y5
Duration: 2 hours
Cost: £60 (Lambeth schools); £120 (non-Lambeth schools)
National curriclum links: History, Design and Technology
Learning objectives
Pupils will:
- Increase their knowledge and understanding of how flour used to be made and how it is made today
- Understand the process of making flour (by real experience) and what cereals (oats, wheat, rye and spelt) it can be made from; learn about what countries our cereals come from, food miles and their impact on the environment
- Learn to make a product collaboratively
- Learn to make a bag that is good for storing flour (various materials and methods for making a bag available)
- Extend their range of vocabulary: harvesting, yield, gristing, grind, hand quern, pestle and mortar, wheat germ, bran, blend, chaff, cereal, starch, ear, bushel, seed, grain, adulteration, food miles, stone-ground, wholemeal
- Develop an awareness of healthy eating and learn that the quality of their product depends on how well it is made and presented.
- Evaluate existing products to develop ideas (various flours and bread will be on display)
- Develop speaking, listening and presentation skills
