This document contains a lesson plan for a Grade 4 geography class in South Africa on the topic of food and farming. The lesson plan covers several classes and aims to teach students about where food comes from, different types of farming (subsistence, commercial, and urban gardening), and important crops and livestock in South Africa. Assessments include class activities with questions to sort foods by source, define key terms, and compare different farming methods. The lesson plan seeks to accommodate students with disabilities and ensure all understand concepts.

1. SOCIAL SCIENCES LESSONPLAN
EKURHULENI SOUTH
SCHOOL THULISA PRIMARY SCHOOL GRADE 4
TEACHER MONDLANE.J PERIOD NO. 4
DATE 18-20 July2016 GEOGRAPHY
TOPIC Food and farming in South Africa RESOURCES: Pictures of
different crops, animals and the
types of food that people eat.
SPECIFIC AIMS Understand the interaction between society and the natural
environment.
CONTENT TO
BE TAUGHT
ASSESSMENT
(FORMAL OR INFORMAL)
Ways people get their
food – buying;
growing; collecting,
fishing, hunting
Food’, ‘fresh’,
‘processed’, ‘plants’,
‘animals’ and
‘source’.
Class-Activity
Food people eat – from plants and animals
(classifying)
1. Draw a table with two columns and sort food
according to their source into correct column.
Cabbage, beetroot, bread, lattice, banana, apple, eggs,
spinach, milk, corn flakes, tomato and chicken legs.
Food from plants Food from animals
Tomatoes Chicken legs
Cabbage Milk
Beetroot Eggs
Bread
Lattice
Banana
Apple
Spinach
Corn flakes
FORM METHOD TOOL
Informal Written Memo
Class-Activity
Ways people get their food – buying; growing;
collecting, fishing, hunting
1. List down the ways in which people get their food
Picture 1- buying for food picture 10- collecting
Picture 2- growing for food picture11- selling
Picture 3- collecting for food picture12- growing
Picture 4- fishing
Picture 5- growing
Picture 6- buying
Picture7- hunting
Picture 8- growing
Picture 9- growing
Informal Written Memo
HOME-WORK
1. How do we get food?
2. Where do you get
your food?
Inclusivity
Assist learners with barriers to learning. Ensure that learners with visual or audio
problems are accommodated. Make sure that learners understand the idea that the only
sources of food are plants and animals. Help learners to trace each food back to its
original source.

2. SOCIAL SCIENCES LESSONPLAN
EKURHULENI SOUTH
SCHOOL THULISA PRIMARY SCHOOL GRADE 4
TEACHER MONDLANE.J PERIOD NO. 3
DATE 25-29 July2016 GEOGRAPHY
TOPIC Food and farming in South Africa RESOURCES: Pictures of
different crops, animals and the
types of food that people eat.
SPECIFIC AIMS Are curious about the world they live in
CONTENT TO
BE TAUGHT
ASSESSMENT
(FORMAL OR INFORMAL)
Crops’, ‘livestock’ and
‘subsistence farmers’.
Class-Activity
Farming for self and family (subsistence farming).
1. What do substance formers do with their crop?
2. Who usually does the work on a substance farm in
South Africa?
3. List five foods that Gogo panga gets from her farm
to feed her family.
FORM METHOD TOOL
Informal Written Memo
Class-Activity
Farming for self and family (subsistence farming).
1. What is subsistence farming?
2. Why do you think women and children do most of
the work on subsistence farms?
3. What tools do they use?
4. Why don’t they have machines like tractors and
harvesters? Do subsistence farmers make money
from subsistence farming?
5. What type of crops and stock do we find on
subsistence farms?
Informal Written Memo
Class-Activity
Farming crops and animals to sell (commercial
farming)
1. What are crops?
2. What is livestock?
3. What do you think cash crops are? Give examples
of cash crops grown in South Africa.
4. What machines do farmers on large farms use?
5. What do the farmers do with all their crops and
livestock?
6. How is this type of farming different to subsistence
farming?
Informal Written Memo
HOME-WORK Inclusivity
Ensure that learners with visual or audio problems are accommodated.
Make sure that learners understand the concept ‘subsistence farming’.

3. SOCIAL SCIENCES LESSONPLAN
EKURHULENI SOUTH
SCHOOL THULISA PRIMARY SCHOOL GRADE 4
TEACHER MONDLANE.J PERIOD NO. 3
DATE GEOGRAPHY
TOPIC Food and farming in South Africa RESOURCES: Pictures or
photographs of different plants
suitable for growing in town
and city food gardens.
SPECIFIC AIMS Are curious about the world they live in
CONTENT TO
BE TAUGHT
ASSESSMENT
(FORMAL OR INFORMAL)
Crops’, ‘livestock’ and
‘subsistence farmers’.
Food gardens’, ‘towns’
and ‘cities’.
Class-Activity
Farming crops and animals to sell (commercial farming)
1. Who does the work on commercial farms?
2. Why do they need machines?
3. What machines do they use?
4. Do they make money from commercial farming?
5. What type of crops and livestock do we find on
commercial farms?
6. Can you think of other ways that commercial farms
differ from subsistence farms? For example, use of
fertilizers and irrigation, large size, each farmer focuses
on one crop or type of livestock, etc.
FORM METHOD TOOL
Informal Written Memo
Class-Activity
Growing food in towns and cities.
1. What is a town?
2. What is a city?
3. Where can people who live in towns and cities grow
their own food?
4. What types of food can people that live in towns and
cities grow? (Remember, they have limited space.)
5. Why do you think people want to grow their own food?
For example; better freshness, more rewarding, to be
environmentally friendly etc.
Informal Written Memo
Class-Activity
Growing food in towns and cities.
1. Where do people living close to you grow food?
2. What foods do they grow?
3. Do any of you have a food garden where you live?
4. What types of food do you grow and how do you grow
them?
5. What do you need to make a food garden? For example,
pots, a patch of garden, soil, water,seeds or seedlings
and gardening tools.
Informal Written Memo
HOME-WORK Inclusivity
Ensure that learners with visual or audio problems are accommodated.
Ensure that learners for whom growing their own food is a foreign concept understand what is
needed for growing food, and what foods are suitable for growing in town and city gardens.

4. SOCIAL SCIENCES LESSONPLAN
EKURHULENI SOUTH
SCHOOL THULISA PRIMARY SCHOOL GRADE 4
TEACHER MONDLANE.J PERIOD NO. 6
DATE GEOGRAPHY
TOPIC Food and farming in South Africa RESOURCES: Pictures or
photographs of different plants
suitable for growing in town
and city food gardens.
SPECIFIC AIMS Are curious about the world they live in
CONTENT TO
BE TAUGHT
ASSESSMENT
(FORMAL OR INFORMAL)
Climate’, ‘crops’,
‘orchards’,
‘vineyards’, ‘food
products’,
‘subtropical’,
‘deciduous’ and
‘Mediterranean’.
Class-Activity - p57 day by day
Crop and stock farming
Crop farming – important crops of South Africa
The map in figure 3.2 below shows where the main
food crops grow in south Africa
1. What is the main crop of the northern Free State?
2. Which two types of fruit grow in the Limpopo
province?
3. In which three provinces do crop farmers grow
wheat?
FORM METHOD TOOL
Informal Written Memo
Class-Activity-p58
Case study of fruit farming in South Africa
1. Which two conditions do cherry trees need to
grow well?
2. When can you see the trees bloom on the farm?
3. When can you pick a basket of ripe cherries on
the farm?
4. List three difficulties that face cherry farmers.
Informal Written Memo
Class-Activity –p56 platinum
Stock farming – large stock, small stock and
poultry
1. Draw a table with two columns.
2. List each food product in the left column.
3. List the animals that the food product comes from
in the right.
Informal Written Memo
HOME-WORK Inclusivity
Help learners with barriers to learning by asking groups to brainstorm a number of
questions in this lesson.