'This set of resources developed by ‘British Nutrition Foundation’, form part of a series of successful lessons exploring healthy eating for children aged 5-7 years. This section provides you with detailed teaching plans, worksheets and presentations and also includes links to all the downloadable resources to support teaching of Cooking: When planning to cook, we need to consider the time of day, person and occasion.

In this story, Alisha helps Ronnie put together a colourful fruit and vegetable basket for his Grandma’s birthday. Includes worksheet which link types of food to their health benefits. Follow link to website for interactive white board resource.

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

Match the labels to the parts of the body. Follow the link for more resources.

This section provides Excel templates to help calculate the cost and portion size of a recipe.

Children can label the map of the UK with foods grown in this country.

To understand that all food and drink provide nutrients.

In this story, Mrs Begum’s class learn about where potatoes come from by growing their own potato plant in a bucket.

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

In this story, Mrs Begum’s class learn about where potatoes come from by growing their own potato plant in a bucket. Includes instructions for planting and growing your potato.

In this story, Mrs Begum’s class learn about where potatoes come from by growing their own potato plant in a bucket. Includes Maths worksheet.

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

This multi-purpose teaching resource can be used in 3 different ways to help pupils learn about energy and nutrients.

An overview of the needs throughout life.

This provides an overview of digestion in the human body.

A poster and powerpoint showing the Eatwell Guide.

Nutrient Food Sources Worksheet.

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

Sensory evaluation is a scientific discipline that analyses and measures human responses to the composition of food and drink, e.g. appearance, touch, odour, texture, temperature and taste.

A presentation, worksheet and quiz exploring hydration.