The aim of this session is to help children understand that lots of the foods we eat are grown and come from plants. The main activity, ‘Have a go’, involves the children learning how to make a crunchy vegetable salad and develop their cutting and grating skills.

Two different worksheets for tasting activities.

A worksheet looking at front of pack nutrition labeling.

Nutrient Sources Worksheet.

Investigate the energy needs of different people. Ask children to write down the reasons why different people might use different amounts of energy. Prompts include: age, job and health.

This is a simple test which shows whether food contains starch. When iodine solution is mixed with starch it turns from brown to dark blue. As this happens with very small amounts of starch, iodine test is a sensitive one.

A PowerPoint presentation to remind children of hygiene rules when cooking.

This section provides information to help teach about food product development.

A simple test to show how to measure the viscosity of a mixture.

To demonstrate good personal hygiene when cooking.

A worksheet exploring food production.

A worksheet to show how energy needs change over time.

A recipe for flapjacks.

Several fun photo jigsaws of kitchen equipment.

Yn y stori hon mae dosbarth Mrs Begum yn dysgu ble mae tatws yn dod drwy dyfu eu planhigyn tatws eu hunain mewn bwced.

A recipe guide and powerpoint presentation.

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This data sheet contains all the nutritional information for yoghurt.

A guide for when children are tasting food.

Give children the What’s changed? Cards. The children can cut out, match and stick the foods in their books. They can then write, or cut out and stick the Changing words Cards, to show how the foods have changed between each picture.