Created for 7-11 year olds, this set of resources developed by ‘British Nutrition Foundation’, form part of a series of successful lessons exploring healthy eating for children. This section provides you with detailed teaching plans, worksheets and flashcards and also includes links to all the downloadable resources to support teaching of ‘Eating healthily - To be active and healthy, food is needed to provide energy for the body’.

Use the Animals PowerPoint to look in more detail at the foods from animals.

A powerpoint to explain that all food comes from plants or animals.

An overview of the needs throughout life.

Use the Food labels PowerPoint to highlight how information is presented and how it can be used.

This section provides information to help teach about the functional properties of food.

The aim of this session is for children to taste new foods, willingly and to recognise that sometimes we need to try a new food a few times to find out if we like it.

Dietary reference values fact sheet.

A worksheet for children to plan what they are cooking.

A scoring worksheet to use when tasting foods.

A Knowledge organiser providing key facts around food hygiene, safety and cooking.

A knowledge organiser providing key facts around energy, nutrients and digestion.

Follow the link for more food function cards.

A guide to hygiene and safety whilst cooking for children.

Understanding where our food comes from, and how it is produced, helps individuals make more informed choices about their diet. To support this aim, we have developed a set of case studies focusing on dairy farming, covering: animal health and welfare; the environment and sustainability; diversity of farming systems; the production of milk and other dairy products.

This section provides information to help teach about diet and lifestyle factors.

A worksheet about rating new food using smiley faces.

A presentation for a lesson plan for pupils to cook three recipes.

A set of photo cards showing the the journey of strawberries - from field to fork.

A knowledge organiser providing key facts around dairy, meat and fish.