Fish and Chips resource

Growing up in Yorkshire, Friday was generally "chippy tea" night.

We were lucky to have some decent chippies in the village where I grew up. My parents' house was at one stage about 2 minutes walk from the XL Chippy which was decent and did scallop fish cakes - which any northerner will tell you is NOT a fishcake. 

I checked on Street View and it's now a seafood restaurant upstairs.

I've got a reasonable collection of food-related books that reference the cultural importance of fish and chips as part of our identity, but also a meal that we owe to migrants: Portuguese and Jewish amongst others, as well as the arrival of the potato from South America and the risks taken by fishing boats in the waters around Iceland or even further north. You can see these boats on Marine Traffic website.

A cross posting from my Geography Teaching blog back in 2024.

I've developed this activity for Year 7, as part of our unit on food geographies called 'Food for Thought'.

It's shared here without commentary or additional resources, which we've developed to help steer the lesson.

It explores the rising price of food by focussing on one meal - a classic of UK food culture. It connects with conflict, climate change, globalisation and so much more.

Card Sequencing Activity Sheet for an exploration of why Fish and Chip prices are going up so much.

Read the cards and classify / sequence / group them.

Card Sequencing Follow up Sheet - to help answer the question...

Fish and Chips - card sequencing summary from GeoBlogs

Here's the origin of fish and chips explained:

And a reminder of the best song about a fish and chip shop...by Hugh Lupton, performed by Chris Wood...