Y6: 2-15. Rationing – Food – Best study methods

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World War Two

Today we are going to ……

to …recap descriptive techniques
to …begin to plan & create descriptive language choices for our next task
to …record relevant information for Chapter 2

What do you think were the effects that WW2 had on people?

We’ve just seen that food and other goods were scarce and therefore, what was available, had to be rationed to make sure that everybody received a fair share.

We will now examine how rationing worked during the Second World War. The flow chart below explains why food was rationed.

To learn more about Rationing, read the article below.

rationing Download

The video clip below explains how the Ration Books worked.

WW2 Ration Book. (1:06 minutes long)

What do you think of the rations for 1 week? Would you have survived on these rations?

To make sure that families have additional food people were encouraged to plant fruit and vegetables. This was known as the “Dig for Victory” campaign.

People were encouraged to produce additional food at home. A ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign called for every man and woman to keep an allotment (a plot of land for growing vegetables). Lawns and flower-beds were turned into vegetable gardens.

To ensure everyone had food chickens, rabbits, goats and pigs were also reared in town parks and gardens.

Food was in short supply but the government wanted people to eat healthy food. Carrots could be grown in Britain, so were not rationed. People thought that eating carrots could help you to see better in the blackout. Carrots could also be used as a sweetener.

Potatoes filled you up so that you didn’t feel so hungry, and were healthy too. Moreover, potatoes could also be grown in Britain. Therefore, the government made posters to advertise potatoes. Potato Pete was a cartoon character who was used on lots of posters.