Gardening & Horticulture
Numeracy: General numeracy / maths, Functional Maths - measures, shape, money
Context: Construction Carpentry Plumbing, Gardening & Horticulture, Painting Decorating & DIY
Level: L1, L2
Resource type: Investigation or project, Worksheet or assignment
A Functional Maths resource using area, multiplication, division and money. I have used Wickes catalogues with my students as they are small and easy to use, but combining the task with internet research to find the best price would be a really good way of doing this lesson.
Fully mapped to L1-2 Functional Maths criteria.
Literacy: Rs/E3.2, Rs/L1.1, Rt/E3.1, Rt/E3.4, Rt/L1.1, Rt/L1.3
Free tags: Winter, Equality and Diversity, Christmas
Context: Gardening & Horticulture, History
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Cloze exercise, Reading comprehension, Worksheet or assignment
Nice selection of winter activities written for an E3-L2 Functional Skills group (best for E3-L1).
The main activities are a reading comprehension (about the history of poinsettias and how they came to be popular at Christmas time) and a cloze exercise based on an old Mexican religious legend. There are also some maths questions.
Numeracy: Functional Maths - data handling, Functional Maths - measures, shape, money, MSS1/L1.8, MSS1/L1.9, HD1/L1.1, MSS1/L1.1
Context: Gardening & Horticulture, Painting Decorating & DIY
Level: L1
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Work out the cost of carpeting a flat (compound shapes) and seeding and fencing a rectangular lawn.
The step by step problem solving approach also makes this ideal for underpinning L1 Functional Maths – although the scaffolded worksheet on page 2 can be removed for confident students or for assessment purposes.
Literacy: Functional Skills English
Numeracy: Functional Maths
ICT: Functional ICT
Context: Gardening & Horticulture
Resource type: Scheme of work
Level: E3
A 4 week scheme of work for OCN E3 Garden Horticulture. Great example of embedding aspects of all three Functional Skills into a vocational course. 4 × 2 hour sessions covering identifying weeds and vegetables; sowing seeds, bulbs and tubers; and preparing growing beds.
With detailed E3 Functional Maths,English and ICT mapping charts showing embedding of measuring, internet searching, reading instructions, writing plant profiles, etc.
Literacy: Functional English - reading, Rs/E2.1, Rt/E2.1, Rt/E2.2, Ws/E2.2, Wt/E2.1, Functional English - writing
ICT: Functional ICT
Context: Gardening & Horticulture
Resource type: Hands-on / practical activity, ICT task sheet, Reading comprehension, Writing prompts
Level: E2
Set of reading comprehension and computer-based research/writing task based on a set of instructions for making your own terrarium from a drinks bottle. Written for, and fully mapped to, Entry 2 Functional English and ICT, but could also be used for E1 and E3 learners.
Literacy: Writing: text focus (composition), Functional English - writing
Numeracy: Functional Maths, MSS1/L1.11, MSS1/L2.10, MSS2/L2.2, MSS2/L2.3
ICT: Finding and selecting information
Context: Gardening & Horticulture
Resource type: ICT task sheet, Investigation or project, Writing prompts
Level: L1, L2
A challenging project where students must research, plan and cost a luxury garden. Includes scale diagrams, money, and shape and space problems (paving slabs). Extension options cover percentages and averages. Great for horticulture students or anyone with an interest in gardening.
Also ideal for L1-2 Functional Maths.
The project also involves web investigation (costs of garden materials) and writing a covering letter (selling the finished garden design) and therefore also covers Functional ICT and Functional English.
Numeracy: Functional Maths, HD1/L1.3, MSS1/L1.11, HD1/L1.4, N2/E3.5, MSS1/E3.1
Context: Gardening & Horticulture, Retail Hospitality Customer service
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Buying herbs at the garden centre is based on packets of seeds and covers addition and subtraction of decimals (money), range and mean, and scale drawings. Great for horticulture students or anyone with an interest in gardening.
The problem solving nature of many questions and the drawing a scale diagram task also makes this ideal for E3-L1 Functional Maths.
Numeracy: Functional Maths - measures, shape, money, MSS1/L2.7, MSS1/L2.8
Context: Gardening & Horticulture, Painting Decorating & DIY
Level: L2
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Working out the cost of carpeting a flat (compound shapes) and seeding and fencing a circular lawn.
The step by step problem solving approach also makes this ideal for underpinning L2 Functional Maths.
Numeracy: Number, MSS1/E2.2, N2/E3.5, MSS1/E3.1
Context: Gardening & Horticulture
Level: E2, E3
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
A visit to the garden centre was written for NCPT horticulture students but ideal for anyone with an interest in gardening. Cover addition. subtraction. multiplication and division of whole number and money.
Numeracy: N1/L1.4, N2/L1.6
Context: Gardening & Horticulture
Level: L1
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Excellent practice in multiplying whole numbers and decimals (money) by 10 and 100. Written for L1 students with an interest in gardening but suitable for any group of L1 learners, including those studying NVQ L1 or L2 Horticulture, Gardening, etc.
Differentiation is easily achieved as the first page covers only multiplying and dividing by 10 (a useful stepping stone for some students). Page 2 covers both x10 and x100.
