Year: Year 5
Lesson Coverage: Mystery Tent
Curriculum Covered: KS2
English
En1 Speaking and listening
1e, 3a,b, 8a
En2 Reading
1b
En3 Writing
1a
Science
Sc2 Life processes and living things
1a,b
ICT
Knowledge, skills and understanding
1a, 5b
Geography
Knowledge, skills and understanding
2c
About the Game
‘Mystery Tent’ has a Geography and Science focus, it involves matching food to the
appropriate country of origin. The game has 3 levels with Level 3 being most appropriate for
children in Year 5.
The main learning points are:
 There are different countries in the world
 Some people speak a different language to us
 Some people can speak more than one language
 All countries have an important capital city
 We can use a map to locate other countries
 Food comes from different countries
 Healthy food is good for us
Within the game children select food and drag and drop it to the country they think it comes
from. The foods are moved using the mouse, indicated on screen by a white hand. All foods
and countries are labelled.
There are 6 foods to match in each section with a total of 5 sections in Level 3. The matching
levels become progressively harder as the children move through Level 3. At the end of the
game there is an option to try another level. Year 5 children will be most suited to use Level 3,
which is the hardest level.
Lesson Plan
Before online activity
Additional Resources
World map
1. Introduce the children to a world map.
2. Talk to the children about these countries; England, Scotland,
France, Spain, Italy, Holland, Greece, Morocco, Russia,
China, India, St Lucia (The Carribean), USA, and Mexico.
Possible activity questions:
o What is the capital city of these countries?
o Why do we have capital cities?
o Does everyone speak the same language?
o What language do people speak in these countries?
During online activity
1. Introduce children to computer and keyboard.
2. Help children with the computer start up procedures and
entering of the My School Lunch website. Ask the children to
select ‘For Fun’ section.
3. Ensure that all children have selected ‘Mystery Tent’ and then
chosen Level 3 (9-11 year olds).
4. Ask the children to read aloud the ‘How to play’ instructions.
5. Ensure all children have selected ‘START’, using their mouse
control.
6. Talk to the children about what they can see – food, map
containing England, Scotland, France, Spain, Italy, Holland,
Greece, Morocco, Russia, China, India, St Lucia, USA, and
Mexico.
Possible online activity questions:
o What is the capital city in that country?
o What language do people speak in that country?
7. Show the children how to use the mouse to select the food
illustrations, making sure they can locate the white hand on
screen.
8. Show the children how to use the mouse to drag the foods.
9. Show the children what will happen if a food is dragged to the
wrong country.
10. The game can be restarted by selecting another game and reentering ‘Mystery Tent’.
11. Encourage children to alternate players and help each other
with the game.
12. Talk to the children about the foods and countries whilst they
are playing.
Possible online activity questions:
o What are those foods?
o Are they healthy?
o Do we eat that food at school for lunch?
o Do you like that food?
o What is that country?
o Have you been there on holiday?
13. At the end of the session help the children with closing the
website and shutting down procedures.
Following online
activities
Additional Resources
Internet
Reference books
Magazines
Photographs
Coloured pens
Large paper
Activity 1: Researching Countries
 Talk to the children about the countries included in ‘Mystery
Tent’.
 With the whole class make a list of the countries they can
remember.
 Ask the children to work in pairs.
 Explain to the children that they are going to use websites,
books from the library and other secondary sources to find out
about a country from the list.
 Ask the children to decide on their country.
 Explain to the children that you want them to include the
following areas:
o Diet/food
o Lifestyle
o Language
o Population
o Capital city
o National flag
 Ask the children to produce their findings in the form of a wall
display.
 Make sure the children include:
o Photographs
o Pictures
o Written work typed using a Word Processing package
Support/Extension Ideas
The ideas below are given to support the less able and extend the more able children in Year
5.
Support Ideas
 Seat less able child with a more able partner (child/adult).
Extension Ideas
 Encourage more able children to help less able children play
‘Mystery Tent’.
 Encourage children to use secondary sources to find out about
another country from the ‘Mystery Tent’ map, this could be set
as homework.